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Phelps County Community Foundation Inc

To administer donated funds.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
59
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$335k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$2.7MEducation$2.2MHealth$1.8MArts & Culture$982kRecreation & Sports$895kReligion$879kPublic Safety & Disaster$586kPhilanthropy$351kOther$0
02FY2025 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 59 grants below total $2,013,724, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,215,560 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $201,836 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $736k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $840k
  • $250k+1 grant · $335k
$17,432
Median grant
1
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE SAFE CENTER: $7k → 13%L2 FOR KIDS: $8k → 12%THE SAFE CENTER: $7k → 13%L2 FOR KIDS: $8k → 12%THE SAFE CENTER: $5k → 13%L2 FOR KIDS: $7k → 12%THE SAFE CENTER: $5k → 13%L2 FOR KIDS: $5k → 12%HOLDREGE AREA EARLY CHILDHOOD PTP: $16k → 10%BERTRAND YOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CENT: $48k → 10%BERTRAND YOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CENT: $13k → 10%BERTRAND YOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CENT: $12k → 10%YOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CENTER: $8k → 10%BERTRAND YOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CENT: $8k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 50 repeat orgs$952k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
15

Total granted

$11M
$839k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+70%

Still filing today

46%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE PRAIRIE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +93%
  • PC
    PHELPS COUNTY CHRISTIAN INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +139% · 90% of their budget
  • PM
    PHELPS MEMORIAL HEALTH CENTER
    8× · 2018–2025 · $930k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $291k · revenue +70%
  • BL
    BETHEL LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $150k
  • MU
    MIDLAND UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $141k · revenue +35%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Hastings Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote the city of hastings, nebraska.

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2
Hastings Community Foundation Inc

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.

Philanthropy
3
First Presbyterian Church Foundation

To support the first presbyterian church of hastings, nebraska.

Religion
4
North Platte Comm College Found Inc

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.

Philanthropy
5
Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame Foundation

High school sports hall of fame foundation

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6
Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.

Philanthropy
7
Prairie Pines

Own and operate assisted living facility

Housing & Shelter
8
Health Center Association of Nebraska

Support the state's federally qualified health centers in providing accessible and quality health care.

Health
9
Nebraska Panhandle Area Health Education Center Inc

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

Human Services
10
The Nebraska Cooperative Council Education Foundation

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…

Education
11
Nebraska Community College Assoc

Support for community colleges

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12
Hays Area Chamber of Commerce

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phelps County Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
28/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF HOLDREGE: $1,002,171 · OtherCITY OF HOLDREGEHOLDREGE MEMORIAL HOMES INC: $540,110 · OtherHOLDREGE MEMORIAL HOMES INCPhelps County Historical Society: $509,535 · OtherPhelps County Historical SocietyNEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES: $302,481 · OtherMOUNT CALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $296,533 · OtherPRAIRIE HOME CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $226,936 · Other+47 more: $3,358,723 · Other+47 moreYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE PRAIRIE: $1,926,346 · HealthYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATI…PHELPS MEMORIAL HEALTH CENTER: $930,275 · HealthPHELPS MEMORIAL HEALTH CENTERSOUTH CENTRAL AREA RECOVERY INC: $469,828 · HealthSOUTH CENTRAL AREA RECOVERY IN…PHELPS COUNTY CHRISTIAN INC: $1,206,162 · EducationPHELPS COUNTY CH…UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $291,240 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NE…MIDLAND UNIVERSITY: $141,240 · EducationMIDLAND UNIVERSI…Axios Workforce & Talent Development Inc: $99,036 · EducationAxios Workforce …+3 more: $40,101 · EducationFUNK SCHOOL COMMUNITY CENTER: $187,107 · Recreation & SportsHOLDREGE AMER LEGION BASEBALL INC: $111,518 · Recreation & SportsSOUTHPLATTE YOUTH ATHLETIC CLUB: $41,649 · Recreation & SportsWELLS 20 FOUNDATION INC: $35,979 · Recreation & SportsTASSEL COORDINATION COUNCIL INC: $357,833 · Arts & CulturePHELPS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $125,025 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $103,534 · PhilanthropyOPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $26,448 · PhilanthropyYoung at Heart Senior Center: $88,814 · Human ServicesL2 FOR KIDS INC A NEBRASKA NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $28,296 · Human ServicesTHE SPOUSE SEXUAL ABUSE FAMILY EDUCATION CENTER INC: $24,247 · Human ServicesHOLDREGE AREA EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTN: $16,001 · Human Services
Other$6,236,489Health$3,326,449Education$1,777,779Recreation & Sports$376,253Arts & Culture$357,833Philanthropy$255,007Human Services$157,358

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE PRAIRIE: $1,926,346 over 8y, 13% of budgetPHELPS COUNTY CHRISTIAN INC: $1,206,162 over 4y, 90% of budgetPHELPS MEMORIAL HEALTH CENTER: $930,275 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetHOLDREGE MEMORIAL HOMES INC: $540,110 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetPhelps County Historical Society: $509,535 over 8y, 42% of budgetSOUTH CENTRAL AREA RECOVERY INC: $469,828 over 4y, 95% of budgetTASSEL COORDINATION COUNCIL INC: $357,833 over 8y, 53% of budgetNEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES: $302,481 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $291,240 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRAIRIE HOME CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $226,936 over 4y, 49% of budgetFUNK SCHOOL COMMUNITY CENTER: $187,107 over 5y, 92% of budgetCHRISTIAN HOMES INC: $175,025 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMIDLAND UNIVERSITY: $141,240 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPHELPS COUNTY SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER INC: $138,054 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetPHELPS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $125,025 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHOLDREGE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $112,089 over 5y, 20% of budgetHOLDREGE AMER LEGION BASEBALL INC: $111,518 over 8y, 23% of budgetNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $103,534 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAxios Workforce & Talent Development Inc: $99,036 over 4y, 76% of budgetYoung at Heart Senior Center: $88,814 over 4y, 13% of budgetPHELPS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $65,440 over 3y, 12% of budgetNEBRASKA CASA ASSOCIATION: $61,960 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $51,124 over 3y, 17% of budgetPHELPS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $50,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetSOUTHPLATTE YOUTH ATHLETIC CLUB: $41,649 over 2y, 29% of budgetWELLS 20 FOUNDATION INC: $35,979 over 2y, 33% of budgetMOSAIC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetL2 FOR KIDS INC A NEBRASKA NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $28,296 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetPHELPS COUNTY MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION: $27,982 over 1y, 34% of budgetOPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $26,448 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHASTINGS LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $24,545 over 1y, 59% of budgetTHE SPOUSE SEXUAL ABUSE FAMILY EDUCATION CENTER INC: $24,247 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHOLDREGE AREA EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTN: $16,001 over 1y, 12% of budgetNEBRASKA 4-H FOUNDATION Phelps County 4-H Foundation: $15,664 over 1y, 42% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MID-NEBR: $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,056 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetELWOOD AREA FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 1y, 6.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Phelps Memorial Healt…The Sherwood Foundati…Robert B Daugherty Fo…Nebraska Community Fo…LeRoy Thom Jean Thom …First Interstate Banc…Greater Grand Island …Kearney Area Communit…Immanuel Community Vi…Land O'Lakes Foundati…Lincoln Community Fou…Thrivent Financial fo…
Phelps Memorial Health CenterNE28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Phelps County Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Phelps County Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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