· Community foundation
Phelps County Community Foundation Inc
To administer donated funds.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of PHELPS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 59 grants below total $2,013,724 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,215,560 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $201,836 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $736k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $840k
- $250k+1 grant · $335k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DON SJOGREN COMMUNITY YMCA | $335,047 |
| LEGACY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $199,543 |
| PHELPS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $92,694 |
| HOLDREGE ANIMAL SHELTER | $91,274 |
| THE TASSEL COORDINATION COUNCIL | $84,048 |
| HOLDREGE MEMORIAL HOMES | $72,157 |
| CHRISTIAN HOMES INC | $66,936 |
| CITY OF HOLDREGE | $62,017 |
| PHELPS COMMUNITY PANTRY | $59,837 |
| PRAIRIE HOME CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $56,782 |
| SOUTH CENTRAL AREA RECOVERY | $54,828 |
| PHELPS MEMORIAL HEALTH CENTER | $48,323 |
| ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $37,064 |
| HOLCOMB EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH | $37,000 |
| HOLDREGE RURAL FIRE DISTRICT 6 | $36,321 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
50 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE PRAIRIE8× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +93%
- PCPHELPS COUNTY CHRISTIAN INC4× · 2022–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +139% · 90% of their budget
- PMPHELPS MEMORIAL HEALTH CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $930k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $291k · revenue +70%
- BLBETHEL LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $150k
- MUMIDLAND UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $141k · revenue +35%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote the city of hastings, nebraska.
The hastings community foundation works to perpetuate and enrich the quality of life in hastings and the surrounding area through the prudent investment and management of philanthropic donations.
To support the first presbyterian church of hastings, nebraska.
The Foundation is organized to help maintain, develop, increase, and extend the facilities and educational purposes of Mid-Plains Community Colleege and to further the educational service opportunity to its students, faculty, and staff.
High school sports hall of fame foundation
To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
Own and operate assisted living facility
Support the state's federally qualified health centers in providing accessible and quality health care.
To support health care, academic, and community members in our region to become champions in recruiting, creating, and maintaining a healthcare workforce through collaborative partnerships
The purpose of the foundation is to encourage high school graduates to pursue higher education in the agricultural and agribusiness fields through scholarships and the implementation of school-to-work programs with participating nebraska…
Support for community colleges
The hays area chamber of commerce will be the catalyst for bringing the business community together with other organizations and the community at large to keep the hays area viable; to foster a better business climate; and promote a higher…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phelps County Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Elwood Area Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 32. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 75 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE PRAIRIE ↗
- Who funds PHELPS COUNTY CHRISTIAN INC ↗
- Who funds PHELPS MEMORIAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOLDREGE MEMORIAL HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds Phelps County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL AREA RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds TASSEL COORDINATION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE HOME CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FUNK SCHOOL COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PHELPS COUNTY SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PHELPS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLDREGE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds HOLDREGE AMER LEGION BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Axios Workforce & Talent Development Inc ↗
- Who funds Young at Heart Senior Center ↗
- Who funds PHELPS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CASA ASSOCIATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Phelps Memorial Health Center · The Sherwood Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · LeRoy Thom Jean Thom and T-L Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Greater Grand Island Community Foundation · Kearney Area Community Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Phelps County Community Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.