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United Way of Western Nebraska

Support of human service programs

$170k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$529kHealth$437kCrime & Legal$330kFood & Nutrition$231kReligion$38kRecreation & Sports$18kHousing & Shelter$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $141,696, the rows itemized in this filing. The $170,226 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $28,530 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $99k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$631k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
COMMUNITY TABLE$6,000
ALLIANCE BULLDOG BACKPACK PROGRAM$6,000
ALLIANCE RECREATION CENTER$5,100
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PLAINS WEST CASA: $10k → 12%CAPWN: $25k → 15%PLAINS WEST CASA: $10k → 12%BUCKBOARD THERAPUTIC RIDING: $25k → 15%PLAINS WEST CASA: $10k → 12%CAPSTONE: $24k → 15%BUCKBOARD THERAPUTIC RIDING: $23k → 15%BUCKBOARD THERAPUTIC RIDING: $22k → 15%BUCKBOARD THERAPUTIC RIDING: $22k → 15%BUCKBOARD THERAPUTIC RIDING: $22k → 15%CAPSTONE: $26k → 16%DOVES: $21k → 15%CAPSTONE: $25k → 16%BUCKBOARD THERAPUTIC RIDING: $21k → 15%CAPSTONE: $23k → 16%BUCKBOARD THERAPUTIC RIDING: $21k → 15%CAPSTONE: $22k → 16%WESTERN NE CHILD DEVE (CAPWN): $21k → 15%CAPSTONE: $20k → 16%BUCKBOARD THERAPUTIC RIDING: $21k → 15%CAPSTONE: $20k → 15%THE DOVES PROGRAM: $20k → 15%DOVES: $19k → 15%BUCKBOARD THERAPUTIC RIDING: $19k → 15%CASA SCOTTS BLUFF CO: $15k → 16%THE DOVES PROGRAM: $19k → 15%CAPSTONE: $18k → 15%DOVES: $16k → 15%CAPWN: $15k → 15%CARPENTER CENTER: $15k → 15%CAPWN: $15k → 15%THE DOVES PROGRAM: $14k → 15%CASA SCOTTS BLUFF CO: $12k → 16%CAPWN-WESTERN NE CHILD DEVELO: $14k → 15%CASA OF SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY: $12k → 16%WESTERN NE CHILD DEVE CAPWN: $14k → 15%CASA OF SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY: $11k → 16%WESTERN NE CHILD DEVE (CAPWN): $13k → 15%CASA SCOTTS BLUFF CO: $10k → 16%WESTERN NE CHILD DEVE (CAPWN): $13k → 15%CASA OF SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY: $10k → 16%CAPWN: $12k → 15%CASA SCOTTS BLUFF CO: $10k → 16%CARPENTER CENTER: $12k → 15%PANHANDLE PARTNERSHIP: $9k → 16%TERRY & HAZELDEAN CARPENTER INTL CN: $10k → 15%DOVES: $10k → 15%THE DOVES PROGRAM: $10k → 15%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 17 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

$1.6M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+18%

Still filing today

94%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • VA
    VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER
    7× · 2017–2025 · $326k · revenue +75% · 83% of their budget
  • C
    CAPSTONE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $178k · revenue +28%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF WESTERN NEBRASKA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • GC
    GUADALUPE CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • T
    TEAMMATES
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • PI
    PANHANDLE INDEPENDENT LIVING SERVICES
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
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
Canvas Health Inc

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.

Human Services
2
Northeast Arc Inc

Helping adults and children with disabilities, (incl asd), become full participants in the community.

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3
Developmental Services of Northwest Kansas Inc

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.

Human Services
4
Heartland Casa

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.

Crime & Legal
5
Noahs House

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…

Housing & Shelter
6
Aveyron Homes Inc

Aveyron homes inc assists people with special, individual needs by providing caring homes and or support services.

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7
Arc Northland

To promote and protect the rights of people with disabilities and their families while supporting inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetime.

—
8
Adult Day Health Activity Center Inc

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…

Health
9
Community Care

To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.

Human Services
10
Centerpointe Inc

Our mission is to help the people we serve get better, sooner, for longer. centerpointe serves some of the most vulnerable in our communities who have co-occuring mental and physical health diagnoses, and who are experiencing or at risk of…

Health
11
Cornerstone Montgomery

Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.

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12
Casa of Natrona County

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Community Action Partnership; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 25 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
9/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUCKBOARD THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY: $196,454 · Human ServicesBUCKBOARD THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMYCAPSTONE: $178,056 · Human ServicesCAPSTONECOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF WESTERN NEBRASKA: $156,400 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF WESTERN NEBRASKATHE DOVES PROGRAM: $135,665 · Human ServicesTHE DOVES PROGRAMCASA OF SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY: $95,415 · Human ServicesCASA OF SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTYTERRY & HAZELDEAN CARPENTER INTL CENTER: $69,150 · Human ServicesTERRY & HAZELDEAN CARPENTER INTL CENTERPLAINS WEST CASA: $51,500 · Human ServicesPLAINS WEST CASA+1 more: $20,872 · Human ServicesVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER: $326,159 · OtherVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTERCIRRUS HOUSE INC: $119,312 · OtherCIRRUS HOUSE INCSUMMER PROGRAM FOR HANDICAPPED CHIL: $82,180 · OtherSUMMER PROGRAM FOR HANDICAPPED CHILGUADALUPE CENTER: $30,500 · OtherNORTHWEST COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $23,621 · Other+10 more: $71,789 · Other+10 more11 13 MINISTRIES: $37,970 · ReligionNORTHFIELD HAVEN INC: $18,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$903,512Other$653,561Religion$37,970Housing & Shelter$18,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER: $326,159 over 7y, 83% of budgetBUCKBOARD THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY: $196,454 over 9y, 41% of budgetCAPSTONE: $178,056 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF WESTERN NEBRASKA: $156,400 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DOVES PROGRAM: $135,665 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetCIRRUS HOUSE INC: $119,312 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetCASA OF SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY: $95,415 over 9y, 11% of budgetSUMMER PROGRAM FOR HANDICAPPED CHIL: $82,180 over 6y, 36% of budgetTERRY & HAZELDEAN CARPENTER INTL CENTER: $69,150 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetPLAINS WEST CASA: $51,500 over 6y, 8.3% of budget11 13 MINISTRIES: $37,970 over 3y, 26% of budgetNORTHWEST COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $23,621 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPANHANDLE PARTNERSHIP INC: $20,872 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHFIELD HAVEN INC: $18,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetCHADRON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $13,169 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE RECREATION CENTER: $12,055 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPANHANDLE INDEPENDENT LIVING SERVICES: $5,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS NEBRASKA: $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 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 PANHANDLE INDEPENDENT LIVING SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS NEBRASKA ↗

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.

Oregon Trail Communit…Snow Redfern Memorial…First Interstate Banc…Reardon - Mohr Founda…The Fliesbach Family …Nebraska Children & F…Amazonsmile Foundation
Oregon Trail Community FoundationNE24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Western Nebraska funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Western Nebraska. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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