Nebraska · Public charity
United Way of Western Nebraska
Support of human service programs
- $170k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $142k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $19,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $631k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations United Way of Western Nebraska funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | 13 | $142k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $136k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $168k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $185k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $185k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $191k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $206k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $194k | 18% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voluntary Action Center | $326,159 | 7 | 83% |
| Buckboard Therapeutic Riding Academy | $196,454 | 9 | 41% |
| Capstone | $178,056 | 8 | 5% |
| Community Action Partnership of Western Nebraska | $156,400 | 9 | 0% |
| The Doves Program | $135,665 | 9 | 4% |
| Cirrus House Inc | $119,312 | 9 | 1% |
| Casa of Scotts Bluff County | $95,415 | 9 | 11% |
| Summer Program for Handicapped Chil | $82,180 | 6 | 36% |
| Terry & Hazeldean Carpenter Intl Center | $69,150 | 8 | 4% |
| Plains West Casa | $51,500 | 6 | 8% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voluntary Action Center | $326,159 | 7 | 83% |
| Buckboard Therapeutic Riding Academy | $196,454 | 9 | 41% |
| Capstone | $178,056 | 8 | 5% |
| Community Action Partnership of Western Nebraska | $156,400 | 9 | 0% |
| The Doves Program | $135,665 | 9 | 4% |
| Cirrus House Inc | $119,312 | 9 | 1% |
| Casa of Scotts Bluff County | $95,415 | 9 | 11% |
| Summer Program for Handicapped Chil | $82,180 | 6 | 36% |
| Terry & Hazeldean Carpenter Intl Center | $69,150 | 8 | 4% |
| Plains West Casa | $51,500 | 6 | 8% |
| 11 13 Ministries | $37,970 | 3 | 26% |
| Guadalupe Center | $30,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Northwest Community Action Partnership | $23,621 | 3 | 0% |
| Panhandle Partnership Inc | $20,872 | 3 | 1% |
| Northfield Haven Inc | $18,000 | 2 | 35% |
| Chadron Community Hospital Corporation | $13,169 | 2 | 0% |
| Alliance Recreation Center | $12,055 | 2 | 1% |
| Alliance Bulldog Backpack Program Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Table | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Panhandle Independent Living Services | $5,500 | 1 | 6% |
| Disability Rights Nebraska | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($24k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of Western Nebraska supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 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: Oregon Trail Community Foundation · Snow Redfern Memorial Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Reardon - Mohr Foundation · The Fliesbach Family Foundation · Nebraska Children & Families Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About United Way of Western Nebraska
- How much does United Way of Western Nebraska give?
- United Way of Western Nebraska reported 13 itemized grants totaling $141,696, out of $170,226 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of Western Nebraska fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), Health (27%), Crime & Legal (20%).
- Who are United Way of Western Nebraska's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Voluntary Action Center ($326k), Buckboard Therapeutic Riding Academy ($196k), Capstone ($178k).
- Does United Way of Western Nebraska 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 Western Nebraska?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oregon Trail Community Foundation, Snow Redfern Memorial Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
- Where is United Way of Western Nebraska based?
- United Way of Western Nebraska is based in NE.
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