Nebraska · Public charity
United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the lincoln and lancaster county community.
- $4.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 101
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 62
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $4.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $21,440
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $494,360
- Organizations funded a year
- 59 to 69
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 57 | $4.2M | 2% |
| FY2024 | 62 | $4.4M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $5.3M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $4.5M | 5% |
| FY2021 | 59 | $4.8M | 7% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $4.6M | 11% |
| FY2019 | 61 | $4.9M | 7% |
| FY2018 | 66 | $4.8M | 8% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Health Agencies Drive | $4,817,233 | 9 | 35% |
| Cedars Youth Services Inc | $4,298,322 | 9 | 4% |
| Give Nebraska | $3,058,865 | 9 | 78% |
| Lincoln Public Schools | $2,621,025 | 9 | n/a |
| Community Action Partnership of Lancaster and Saunders Counties | $2,229,562 | 9 | 3% |
| Hopespoke | $1,676,142 | 9 | 4% |
| Catholic Social Services | $1,487,191 | 9 | 3% |
| Family Service Association of Lincoln | $1,479,589 | 9 | 2% |
| Food Bank of Lincoln Inc | $1,448,160 | 9 | 1% |
| Friendship Home of Lincoln Inc | $1,147,525 | 9 | 5% |
Show all 112 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 88 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Cooper Foundation · Abel Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Acklie Charitable Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · Rogers Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · Duncan Family Trust · Nebraska Community Foundation
How this is measured
Compare United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County with peer funders
About United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County
- How much does United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County give?
- United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County reported 101 itemized grants totaling $4,451,146, out of $4,635,850 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 59 and 69 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (28%), Health (18%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Combined Health Agencies Drive ($4.8M), Cedars Youth Services Inc ($4.3M), Give Nebraska ($3.1M).
- Does United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, Cooper Foundation, Abel Foundation.
- Where is United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County based?
- United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County is based in NE.
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