How much did UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS grant in FY2025?

Human Services$26MYouth Development$8.6MHousing & Shelter$8.4MPhilanthropy$5.3MEducation$5.0MHealth$4.6MFood & Nutrition$1.3MCommunity Improvement$1.1MCrime & Legal$1.0MOther$16M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

childrenstrongkidsenablepowercareergoodwill

2020

childrendisasterothersboy scoutsmoecmenthings

2021

cirt allocationsfederal carescares actbookkarnett payoutgoodfellowsyes

2022

cirt allocationsdeitechnologykarnett payoutgoodfellowswomen girlssmall

2023

arpa cirtcirt allocationsdeiallocations goodfellowspartnership agreementtechnologyarpa goodfellows

2024

impact allocationsarpa allocationsallocations impacttornado reliefpartnership allocationsrelief impactallocations arpa

2025

impact allocationsarpa allocationsallocations impacttornado reliefkarnett allocationrelief impactpartnership allocations

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $6k
$10k–50k35 grants · $1.0M
$50k–250k42 grants · $4.4M
$250k+6 grants · $2.0M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$24M

Total assets

Largest grants

COMMUNITY HEALTH CHARITIES$503,557
ONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC$397,000
NEBRASKA CENTER FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT & EDUCATION$360,492
HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE$286,132
FAMILY HOUSING ADVISORY SERVICES INC$252,000
OMAHA RAPID RESPONSE$250,000
COMPLETELY KIDS$240,000
LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEBRASKA INC$229,000
HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION$190,132
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA$175,000
KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER$175,000
WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT$169,500
YMCA OF GREATER OMAHA$165,000
LATINO CENTER OF THE MIDLANDS$145,500
NEW VISIONS$145,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $25.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$75M · 117 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

117 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117

Total granted

$75M

$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+37%

Still filing today

86%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

HF
Heartland Family Service
8× · 2018–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +39%
LS
Lutheran Service Corps of Omaha
8× · 2018–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +55%
OC
OneWorld Community Health Centers Inc
8× · 2018–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +68%

Funded once

MA
Metropolitan Area Continuum of Care for the Homelegraduated
one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +6472%
NC
Nebraska Children and Families Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +186%
BT
Book Trust
one grant, 2020 · $183k · revenue -23%

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

04Your field

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.

One Omaha

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

Community Improvement

Community Action of Nebraska Inc

To alleviate poverty and build the capacity of nebraska's community action agencies.

Community Improvement

Southwest Nebraska Community Betterment

Creating and improving housing to open doors for economic opportunities.

Human Services

North Omaha Collective

To build the capacity of youth serving organizations, service providers, families and community to claim their voice, cultivate healing and take courageous action to improve their overall health and well being.

Human Services

Community Justice Center

A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.

Crime & Legal

Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy

Regional West Health Services

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

Health

New Community Development Corporation

Provides safe, affordable and quality housing for low and moderate income families in Douglas & Sarpy NE & Pottawattamie County IA, with an emphasis in Omaha/Council Bluffs metropolitan area.

Housing & Shelter

Northeast Iowa Community Action

Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.

Human Services

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

Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.

Community Improvement

United Way of North Central Iowa

Connect and strengthen community resources to inspire change in the lives of all north Iowans.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Metro Area Continuum of Care for the and the most unlike its peers is Bethlehem House. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%4/144

the rest of the field

10%

338/3,414

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.

05the grantee network

126 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

120/126

Grantees still filing

94/126

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$25,796,620Other$19,141,663Youth Development$8,598,200Housing & Shelter$8,409,464Philanthropy$5,300,033Education$5,045,975Health$4,592,081

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.

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.

The Lozier FoundationNE154.7× affinity77 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 · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider

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 organisation UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Nebraska Center for Workforce Development and Educ.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 832702323 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Nebraska Center for Workforce Development and Educ, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 67% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to United Way of the Midlands?

Find your warmest path to United Way of the Midlands through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

126 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of the Midlands?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

126 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of the Midlands?

More from the funding graph