· Public charity
United Way of Western Nebraska
Support of human service programs
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $141,696 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $170,226 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,530 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 $10k6 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $99k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE DOVES PROGRAM | $19,500 |
| BUCKBOARD THERAPUTIC RIDING | $19,000 |
| SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY VOLUNTEER BUREA | $15,946 |
| CAPWN | $15,000 |
| CASA OF SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY | $10,000 |
| PLAINS WEST CASA | $10,000 |
| TERRY & HAZELDEAN CARPENTER INTL CN | $10,000 |
| PANHANDLE PARTNERSHIP | $9,150 |
| NORTHFIELD HAVEN INC | $9,000 |
| CIRRUS HOUSE INC | $7,000 |
| ALLIANCE BULLDOG BACKPACK PROGRAM | $6,000 |
| COMMUNITY TABLE | $6,000 |
| ALLIANCE RECREATION CENTER | $5,100 |
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, $904k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- VAVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER7× · 2017–2025 · $326k · revenue +75% · 83% of their budget
- CCAPSTONE8× · 2017–2024 · $178k · revenue +28%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF WESTERN NEBRASKA9× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- GCGUADALUPE CENTERone grant, 2023 · $7k
- TTEAMMATESone grant, 2018 · $6k
- DRDISABILITY RIGHTS NEBRASKAone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +18%
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 be a recognized leader in community mental health, respected for our clinical quality, innovation, and adaptation to a rapidly changing health care and social services environment.
Helping adults and children with disabilities, (incl asd), become full participants in the community.
To promote and protect the rights of people with disabilities and their families while supporting inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetime.
Heartland casa (court appointed special advocates) supports abused and neglected children in the court system through recruiting and training informed, caring volunteers who speaks for these children.
Dsnwk is committed to providing quality community-based services and support to adults and children with developmental disabilites from northwest kansas, regardless of the level of their disabilites.
Aveyron homes inc assists people with special, individual needs by providing caring homes and or support services.
The organization provides opportunities for growth, independence, and fulfillment for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities by offering a loving, nurturing, and affordable residential community, along with structured…
Circles of Caring Adult Day Health is a unique day-use program that provides a safe, caring, and nurturing atmosphere for adults and elders. We provide a wide range of services specialized to assist our participants with their medical,…
The Adult Day Health Activity Center (ADHAC) provides vital support to individuals with mental illness, behavioral challenges, and disabilities, focusing on enhancing their quality of life and promoting community integration. ADHAC offers…
To provide the court with objective information regarding the status of children involved in abuse or neglect cases. Duties of the appointed advocate would include gathering information, developing recommendations, and providing written…
Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.
Residential services for disabled individuals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Community Action Partnership and the most unlike its peers is Capstone. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 25 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 VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds BUCKBOARD THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CAPSTONE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF WESTERN NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds THE DOVES PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CIRRUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SUMMER PROGRAM FOR HANDICAPPED CHIL ↗
- Who funds TERRY & HAZELDEAN CARPENTER INTL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLAINS WEST CASA ↗
- Who funds 11 13 MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds PANHANDLE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHADRON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE RECREATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE BULLDOG BACKPACK PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds PANHANDLE INDEPENDENT LIVING SERVICES ↗
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: 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
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 Western Nebraska 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.