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The Nebraska Medical Center

The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC)'s mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.

$447M
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$219M
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.

Health$1.8BEducation$508MMembership Benefit$8.0MArts & Culture$1.9MScience & Tech$870kCommunity Improvement$570kCrime & Legal$453kPhilanthropy$378kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 33 grants below total $349,246,516, the rows itemized in this filing. The $446,861,583 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $97,615,067 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 $10k5 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $333k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $882k
  • $250k+5 grants · $348M
$20,000
Median grant
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States reached
$2.7B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNMC Physicians$218,984,060
University of Nebraska Board of Regents$112,828,066
Clarkson Regional Health Services Inc$8,000,000
Clarkson College$7,885,665
Omaha Discovery Trust$300,000
Children's Mercy Hospital$236,573
American Cancer Society$215,000
Greater Omaha Chamber Foundation$213,100
Immigrant Legal Center$163,750
Iowa Poison Control Center$53,385
University of Iowa$44,879
No More Empty Pots$37,060
Hope Medical Outreach Coalition$30,000
I Be Black Girl$26,000
Children's Hospital & Medical Center$24,978
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $626k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Project Harmony: $10k → 12%Father Flanagan's Boys' Home: $10k → 12%Father Flanagan's Boy Home: $10k → 12%Father Flanagan's Boy Home: $10k → 12%Father Flanagan's Boys' Home: $10k → 12%Father Flanagan's Boy Home: $10k → 12%Father Flanagan's Boys' Home: $10k → 12%Father Flanagan's Boys' Home: $10k → 12%Millard Public Schools: $40k → 12%Immigrant Legal Center: $125k → 12%Immigrant Legal Center: $94k → 12%Immigrant Legal Center: $63k → 12%Heartland Family Services: $24k → 12%Heartland Family Services: $21k → 12%Heartland Family Services: $11k → 12%Heartland Family Services: $10k → 12%Heartland Family Service: $8k → 12%HELP Adult Services: $7k → 12%Heartland Family Services: $7k → 12%Heartland Family Services: $7k → 12%Hope Medical Outreach Coalition: $60k → 12%Hope Medical Outreach Coalition: $30k → 12%Hope Medical Outreach Coalition: $30k → 12%Partnership 4 Kids: $10k → 12%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3B · 56 repeat orgs$397k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
24

Total granted

$2.3B
$308k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+17%

Still filing today

91%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UP
    UNMC Physicians
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3B · revenue +107% · 36% of their budget
  • CC
    Clarkson College
    9× · 2017–2025 · $71M · revenue +26% · 39% of their budget
  • BH
    Building Healthy Futures
    3× · 2018–2020 · $5.7M · revenue +332%

Funded once

  • MP
    MILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +14%
  • MC
    METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +78%
  • AH
    American Heart Association
    one grant, 2020 · $29k
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
Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
2
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
3
Nebraska Methodist Hospital

Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…

Health
4
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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5
One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
6
Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
7
Physicians Clinic Inc

Methodist physicians clinic provides accessible, quality medical care through its integrated team of health professionals, including specialists in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery,…

Health
8
Methodist Fremont Health

The mission of methodist fremont health is to improve the quality of life by caring for the body and mind. methodist fremont health supports its mission of caring for people through the provision of inpatient and outpatient hospital…

Health
9
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
10
Nebraska Medicine

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and committees through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
11
Nebraska Pediatric Practice Inc

Provides a means whereby the resources, expertise, and knowledge of the pediatric specialty physicians can be marshaled to develop, promote, and make available to patients from omaha, ne and the surrounding area, pediatric, academic, and…

Health
12
Omaha Community Foundation

To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Aid of Nebraska; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

78 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. 78 of the 87 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/78
Grantees still filing
55/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNMC Physicians: $1,312,369,527 · HealthUNMC PhysiciansCLARKSON REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICE INC: $80,021,000 · HealthCLARKSON REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICE INC+23 more: $8,418,134 · HealthBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $816,308,545 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRA…Clarkson College: $70,864,524 · OtherClarkson College+38 more: $1,789,385 · OtherOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST: $1,800,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $210,145 · Education+2 more: $52,500 · EducationNational Strategic Research Institute: $869,674 · Science & TechJUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA: $445,000 · Human ServicesHope Medical Outreach Coalition: $150,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $87,405 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $80,000 · Human ServicesMILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Human Services+5 more: $45,710 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $312,992 · PhilanthropyVISITING NURSES FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $7,500 · PhilanthropyNO MORE EMPTY POTS: $117,060 · Food & NutritionHEART MINISTRY CENTER: $20,000 · Food & NutritionNEBRASKA DIAPER BANK: $15,000 · Food & NutritionSAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$1,400,808,661Other$888,962,454Education$2,062,645Science & Tech$869,674Human Services$848,115Philanthropy$340,492Food & Nutrition$167,060

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 budgetUNMC Physicians: $1,312,369,527 over 9y, 36% of budgetCLARKSON REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICE INC: $80,021,000 over 9y, 41% of budgetClarkson College: $70,864,524 over 9y, 39% of budgetOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST: $1,800,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $886,250 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNational Strategic Research Institute: $869,674 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetJUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA: $445,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES IN OMAHA INC: $433,300 over 9y, 9.2% of budgetGREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $418,725 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $312,992 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $286,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $218,503 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $210,145 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $175,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $167,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER OMAHA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $166,800 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetHope Medical Outreach Coalition: $150,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetNO MORE EMPTY POTS: $117,060 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC: $110,750 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetTHE WELLBEING PARTNERS: $103,311 over 4y, 16% of budgetONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $97,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE: $87,405 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA STATEWIDE POISON CONTROL CENTER: $84,160 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetI BE BLACK GIRL: $71,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNEBRASKA AIDS PROJECT INC: $66,440 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetOmaha Botanical Center Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $60,212 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetProject Pinkd Inc: $57,400 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetTHE DURHAM MUSEUM: $55,075 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHICANO AWARENESS CENTER INC: $54,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHARBOR HOUSE: $50,025 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAFETY & HEALTH COUNCIL OF GREATER OMAHA INC: $38,100 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEBRASKA MEDICINE GUILD: $33,785 over 2y, 10% of budgetA TIME TO HEAL INC: $30,870 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetLIVE WELL OMAHA: $30,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILD HEALTH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $25,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNE HEALTH OCCUPATION STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $24,780 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $23,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEART MINISTRY CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVISITING NURSES FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% 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 UNMC Physicians ↗
  • Who funds CLARKSON REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds Clarkson College ↗
  • Who funds Building Healthy Futures ↗
  • Who funds OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds National Strategic Research Institute ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS-NEBRASKA ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES IN OMAHA INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds Hope Medical Outreach Coalition ↗
  • Who funds NO MORE EMPTY POTS ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WELLBEING PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds ONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds IOWA STATEWIDE POISON CONTROL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
  • Who funds I BE BLACK GIRL ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA AIDS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Omaha Botanical Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds Project Pinkd Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds CHICANO AWARENESS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HARBOR HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds MILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAFETY & HEALTH COUNCIL OF GREATER OMAHA INC ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA MEDICINE GUILD ↗

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.

The Lozier FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…Suzanne & Walter Scot…The Hawks FoundationRobert B Daugherty Fo…Weitz Family Foundati…Mutual of Omaha Found…Nebraska Community Fo…The Holland FoundationThe Charles and Mary …Immanuel Community Vi…Peter Kiewit Foundati…
The Lozier FoundationNE71.3× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Holland Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation

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 The Nebraska Medical Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nebraska Medical Center. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 87 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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