Nebraska · Nonprofit
AFRICAN CULTURE CONNECTION
AFRICAN CULTURE CONNECTION (Nebraska) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,871,361 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($2,293,348). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $519k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $237k
What African Culture Connection does
Mission
African Culture Connection empowers people of all ages with knowledge and understanding that deepens their connection with africa's rich cultural legacy and the global community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
African Culture Connection's residency and community outreach teaches and connects students ages 5 to 15 with african culture through music, dance, and other arts. Our performances to the public, school assemblies, residencies, and through workshops help to promote unity and multiculturalism by providing authentic hands-on experiences with the african culture. Additionally, it helps the students learn to express themselves creatively and how to work as a team. The programs are currently held at 20 area public schools as well as several other nonprofit organizations in the area who provide afterschool programs for students.
$341,883 spent$65,650 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $341,883.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $65k to $221k (+241%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
88% of AFRICAN CULTURE CONNECTION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $120k → $352k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AFRICAN CULTURE CONNECTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AFRICAN CULTURE CONNECTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 93% · 2019 83% · 2020 82% · 2021 61% · 2022 78% · 2023 68% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
71% of AFRICAN CULTURE CONNECTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of AFRICAN CULTURE CONNECTION's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $104k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AFRICAN CULTURE CONNECTION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AFRICAN CULTURE CONNECTION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AFRICAN CULTURE CONNECTION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AFRICAN CULTURE CONNECTION?
- AFRICAN CULTURE CONNECTION (Nebraska) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,871,361 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($2,293,348). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFRICAN CULTURE CONNECTION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,871,361 in grants to AFRICAN CULTURE CONNECTION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN CULTURE CONNECTION?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,293,348 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFRICAN CULTURE CONNECTION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing