· Public charity
United Way of the Midlands
UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS mission is "we unite our community's caring spirit to build a stronger tomorrow".
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k42 grants · $4.4M
- $250k+6 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $30.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
116 repeat relationships: 78 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HFHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE9× · 2017–2025 · $5.9M · revenue +39%
- LFLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +55%
- OCONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +111%
Funded once
- TCTHRESHOLD COCone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +5%
- NCNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -39%
- BTBOOK TRUSTone grant, 2020 · $183k · revenue +18%
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.
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.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
A restorative justice agency committed to habilitating justice in nebraska.
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.
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.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
To enhance nebraska's response to child abuse.
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.
To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.
To help young children thrive socially, emotionally and academically through high-quality early childhood education, and in partnership with their families and the community.
End hunger together.
To promote credit unions in nebraska
Provide education and leadership to empower people to live safe and healthy.
How this is measured
130 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. 130 of the 149 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds COMBINED HEALTH AGENCIES DRIVE ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSING ADVISORY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ONEWORLD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER OMAHA ↗
- Who funds CHICANO AWARENESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CENTER FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds THE OMAHA HOME FOR BOYS ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES DREW HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT NETWORK IN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE REHABILITATION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds MICAH HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS SPIRIT OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTERCULTURAL SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds MIDLANDS LATINO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Collective For Youth ↗
- Who funds THRESHOLD COC ↗
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: 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 Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Todd and Mary Heistand Family Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of the Midlands funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of the Midlands. Bigger dots raise more.
- Financial Beginnings: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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