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United Way of South Central Nebraska Inc

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$357k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
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 2024.

Human Services$1.5MYouth Development$477kHealth$412kEducation$342kCrime & Legal$340k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $278k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASA$60,000
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES$50,000
YWCA$46,000
ENCOURAGE ADVOCACY CENTER (SASA)$39,500
HASTINGS LITERACY$30,000
MENTORINGWORKS$26,000
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MID-NEBRASKA$25,000
KENESAW UNITED CHILDCARE COALITION$25,000
HORIZON RECOVERY DBA REVIVE INC$25,000
SENIOR ACTION$17,700
BOY SCOUTS$13,500
ASAAP$10,500
THE VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER$10,000
TEAMMATES$10,000
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 (FY24–24, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CASA: $60k → 11%THE VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 11%ENCOURAGE ADVOCACY CENTER (SASA): $40k → 11%KENESAW UNITED CHILDCARE COALITION: $25k → 11%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 15 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
1

Total granted

$3.0M
$20k

Still filing today

87%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CO
    CASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $438k · revenue +0%
  • CS
    CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $426k · revenue +20%
  • SA
    SPOUSE ABUSESEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • KU
    KENESAW UNITED CHILD CARE COALITION
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
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
Nebraska Alliance of Child Advocacy Centers

To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.

Crime & Legal
2
Nebraska Casa Association

The nebraska casa association partners with local casa programs to recruit and train volunteers who speak in court for the safety and well-being of abused and neglected children.

Crime & Legal
3
Nebraska Safety Council

Provide education and leadership to empower people to live safe and healthy.

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4
Community Action of Nebraska Inc

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.

Community Improvement
5
Nebraska Youth Center

The center operates a group home for troubled youth, ages 12-18, in western nebraska.

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6
Leading Age Nebraska

The organization's mission is to expand the world of possibilities for aging through advocacy, collaboration, and education.

Housing & Shelter
7
Casa for Lancaster County

The organization supports and promotes court appointed volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children so they can thrive in safe permanent homes.

Human Services
8
Sierra County Child Abuse Council

Child abuse awareness and prevention

Crime & Legal
9
Midland Area Agency On Aging

The mission of midland area agency on aging is to provide caring and quality services to older adults and their families that enable independent living with dignity in their homes and communities.

Human Services
10
Southeast Nebraska Casa

Southeast Nebraska Casa recruits, trains and supports community volunteers who advocate forabused and neglected children in the Seward, Saline, Thayer, Jefferson and Gage County Court System

Crime & Legal
11
Community Justice Center

A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.

Crime & Legal
12
Volunteers of America Lewellen Nebraska Inc

Volunteers of america-lewellen, nebraska is a faith-based organization whose mission is to promote physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual well-being serving children, families and communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spouse Abusesexual Assault Crisis Center; the most unlike its peers is Revive 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 18 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $426,360 · OtherCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICESYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $353,000 · OtherYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONMENTORING WORKS: $330,500 · OtherMENTORING WORKSCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MID-NEBR: $211,900 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MID-NEBR322 OVERLAND TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $77,000 · OtherHASTINGS RESPITE CARE: $76,500 · Other+2 more: $39,542 · OtherCASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA: $437,515 · Human ServicesCASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKASPOUSE ABUSESEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS CENTER: $249,500 · Human ServicesSPOUSE ABUSESEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS…MARY LANNING HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $189,553 · Human ServicesMARY LANNING HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIO…+2 more: $35,000 · Human ServicesHASTINGS LITERACY PROGRAM INC: $214,000 · EducationHASTINGS LIT…SENIOR ACTION INC: $128,200 · EducationSENIOR ACTIO…REVIVE INC: $150,908 · HealthAREA SUBSTANCE & ALCOHOL ABUSE PREVENTION COALITION: $71,960 · HealthTEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM: $69,415 · Youth Development
Other$1,514,802Human Services$911,568Education$342,200Health$222,868Youth Development$69,415

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA: $437,515 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $426,360 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $353,000 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetMENTORING WORKS: $330,500 over 8y, 42% of budgetSPOUSE ABUSESEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS CENTER: $249,500 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetHASTINGS LITERACY PROGRAM INC: $214,000 over 8y, 38% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MID-NEBR: $211,900 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMARY LANNING HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $189,553 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetREVIVE INC: $150,908 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetSENIOR ACTION INC: $128,200 over 8y, 3.7% of budget322 OVERLAND TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $77,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetAREA SUBSTANCE & ALCOHOL ABUSE PREVENTION COALITION: $71,960 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetTEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM: $69,415 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetKENESAW UNITED CHILD CARE COALITION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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 CASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MENTORING WORKS ↗
  • Who funds SPOUSE ABUSESEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HASTINGS LITERACY PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF MID-NEBR ↗
  • Who funds MARY LANNING HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds REVIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds 322 OVERLAND TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds AREA SUBSTANCE & ALCOHOL ABUSE PREVENTION COALITION ↗
  • Who funds TEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds KENESAW UNITED CHILD CARE COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗

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.

Hastings Community Foundation IncNE28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hastings Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Spotts Trust Charles Hermes Trustee · Sunnyside Inc · LeRoy Thom Jean Thom and T-L Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Johnson-Wissing Family Foundation Inc · Snow Redfern Memorial Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 United Way of South Central Nebraska Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of South Central Nebraska Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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