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University of Nebraska Foundation

The UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION grows relationships and resources that enable the university of nebraska to change lives and save lives.

$298M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$285M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.1BHealth$22MEnvironment$369kMembership Benefit$69k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $530k
  • $250k+4 grants · $296M
$368,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Nebraska$284,724,550
Nebraska Medicine$11,001,214
Wachiska Audubon Society Inc$368,575
The Alumni Association of the University of Nebraska Lincoln$368,000
AGS Gamma Chapter Foundation Inc$230,779
UNMC Alumni Association$230,000
Farmhouse Foundation$69,002
Brown University$24,868
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AGS Gamma Chapter Foundation Inc: $231k → 10%Wachiska Audubon Society Inc: $369k → 13%Farmhouse Foundation: $69k → 15%Brown University: $25k → 14%University of Nebraska: $286.0M → 13%University of Nebraska: $285.0M → 13%University of Nebraska: $284.7M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $235.0M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $214.2M → 13%University of Nebraska: $198.8M → 13%University of Nebraska: $193.0M → 13%University of Nebraska: $178.8M → 13%University of Nebraska: $166.1M → 13%UNF Charitable Gift Fund: $8.0M → 13%The Alumni Assoc of the University of NE - Lincoln: $541k → 13%The Alumni Association of the University of Nebraska Lincoln: $368k → 13%The Alumni Association of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln: $368k → 13%The Alumni Association of the University of Nebraska Lincoln: $368k → 13%THE ALUMNI ASSOC OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NE - LINCOLN: $368k → 13%The Alumni Assoc of the University of NE - Lincoln: $350k → 13%THE ALUMNI ASSOC OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NE - LINCOLN: $350k → 13%The Alumni Assoc of the University of NE - Lincoln: $350k → 13%The Alumni Assoc of the University of NE - Lincoln: $350k → 13%UNF Charitable Gift Fund: $15k → 13%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1B · 4 repeat orgs$675k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
1

Total granted

$2.1B
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+109%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $668k 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
EducationHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • BO
    BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0B
  • NM
    Nebraska Medicine
    7× · 2019–2025 · $20M · revenue +367%
  • AA
    ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • TN
    The Nebraska Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +109%
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
Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
2
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
3
University of Nebraska Foundation

The university of nebraska foundation grows relationships and resources that enable the university of nebraska to change lives and save lives.

Education
4
UNeMed Corporation

UNeMed Corporation's mission is to improve healthcare by fostering innovation, advancing biomedical research, and engaging entrepreneurs and industry to commercialize novel technologies.

Education
5
University of Northern Iowa Alumni Association

To encourage and support a life-long relationship between the university of northern iowa and its alumni and friends; to promote the interaction of alumni with each other; to promote and advance the interests of the university and its…

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6
Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing and Allied Health

Nebraska methodist college of nursing & allied health is a health professions institution providing education in healthcare related fields.

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7
Union College

Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.

Education
8
Nebraska Realtors Association

Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members

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9
Council of Independent Nebraska Colleges Foundation

The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.

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10
University of Minnesota Alumni Association

The university of minnesota alumni association (umaa) fosters a lifelong spirit of belonging and pride by connecting alumni, students, and friends to the university of minnesota and each other. the alumni association advocates for the…

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11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Nebraska Methodist Hospital

Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alumni Association of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; the most unlike its peers is The Nebraska Medical Center. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $2,041,643,597 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA+1 more: $69,002 · OtherNebraska Medicine: $19,933,667 · Health+1 more: $6,278 · HealthUNF CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $7,965,448 · PhilanthropyALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN: $3,412,876 · EducationUNMC Alumni Association: $2,070,000 · EducationAGS GAMMA CHAPTER FOUNDATION INC: $230,779 · EducationWACHISKA AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $368,575 · EnvironmentBROWN UNIVERSITY: $24,868 · Community Improvement
Other$2,041,712,599Health$19,939,945Philanthropy$7,965,448Education$5,713,655Environment$368,575Community Improvement$24,868

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNebraska Medicine: $19,933,667 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetUNF CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $7,965,448 over 2y, 87% of budgetALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN: $3,412,876 over 9y, 15% of budgetUNMC Alumni Association: $2,070,000 over 9y, 28% of budgetFARMHOUSE FOUNDATION: $69,002 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $24,868 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Nebraska Medical Center: $6,278 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Nebraska Medicine ↗
  • Who funds UNF CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN ↗
  • Who funds UNMC Alumni Association ↗
  • Who funds WACHISKA AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds AGS GAMMA CHAPTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FARMHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Nebraska Medical Center ↗

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.

Lincoln Community Fou…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 University of Nebraska Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University of Nebraska Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 10 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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