· Public charity
United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the lincoln and lancaster county community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 101 grants below total $4,451,146 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,635,850 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $184,704 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 $10k23 grants · $165k
- $10k–50k56 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMBINED HEALTH AGENCIES DRIVE (CHAD) | $494,360 |
| CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES | $354,850 |
| CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES | $255,600 |
| LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $222,210 |
| GIVE NEBRASKA | $207,473 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER & SAUNDERS COUNTY | $185,000 |
| LINCOLN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $182,500 |
| HOPESPOKE | $135,280 |
| FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN | $95,544 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN NEBRASKA | $91,634 |
| LIGHTHOUSE | $91,500 |
| FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC | $80,000 |
| VOICES OF HOPE LINCOLN INC | $77,400 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY LINCOLN NEBRASKA | $76,000 |
| BRAVEBE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $75,575 |
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 (FY17–25, $8.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- CYCEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +42%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +69%
- HHOPESPOKE9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +34%
Funded once
- CCCORNHUSKER COUNCIL 324 BOY SCOUTS AMERICA INCone grant, 2017 · $32k · revenue -26%
- LFLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASKA INCone grant, 2017 · $15k
- FBFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLANDone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +9%
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, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
United way works to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another. united way is a funder, a mobilizer, a convener and a fundraiser. united way is a community builder, connecting people through philanthropy,…
The mission of the urban league of nebraska is to be an empowering voice in the community advocating for economic self-reliance, parity, power, civil rights and equal opportunity for all (see schedule o). the vision of the urban league of…
Mission: community action of nebraska strives to alleviate poverty through enhancing program development, providing technical assistance, and advocating public policy to support all community action agencies in nebraska.
To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.
To promote credit unions in nebraska
Providing advanced life service level support for nine local communities in lincoln county including damariscotta, newcastle, bremen, bristol, south bristol, nobleboro, jefferson and edgecomb
Community development in lincoln, ne
To empower people with special needs to become self-sufficient through the power of work.
The organization's mission is to expand the world of possibilities for aging through advocacy, collaboration, and education.
To Market Lincoln as the area of choice in which to live and do business, by attracting, assisting, retaining and promoting our members
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action Partnership of Lancaster and Saunders Counties and the most unlike its peers is Cbol 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 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 116 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 COMBINED HEALTH AGENCIES DRIVE ↗
- Who funds CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LANCASTER AND SAUNDERS COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds HOPESPOKE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF HOPE OF LINCOLN INC ↗
- Who funds MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S CITY MISSION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LINCOLN ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBOR COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE HUB - CENTRAL ACCESS POINT FOR YOUNG ADULTS ↗
- Who funds ST MONICA'S HOME ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MALONE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds MOURNING HOPE ↗
- Who funds Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WILLARD COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CITY IMPACT ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASIAN COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR LANCASTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO DE LAS AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN MEDICAL EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
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: 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
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 United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County 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.