Nebraska · Nonprofit
BLUESTEM HEALTH
BLUESTEM HEALTH (Nebraska) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,832,674 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($4,800,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Bluestem Health does
Mission
To be a trusted resource for excellent medical, dental and behavioral health services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Medical services - Bluestem Health provides primary and preventive healthcare services to low-income, uninsured, and underinsured individuals in the community. Services include general medical care, immunizations, prenatal care, pediatric care, and chronic disease management.
$14,189,613 spent$13,268,693 earned by the program78% of program spendingDental services - Bluestem Health provides comprehensive dental care to underserved populations, including preventive care, restorative procedures, oral surgery, and emergency dental care. The center offers services to low-income, uninsured, and underinsured individuals, ensuring access to quality dental care regardless of their ability to pay.
$1,275,305 spent$986,243 earned by the program7% of program spendingPharmacy services - Bluestem Health participates in the federal 340(b) pharmacy program providing affordable prescription medications to low-income, uninsured, and underinsured patients. Services include medication dispensing, patient counseling, medication therapy management, and assistance accessing pharmaceutical assistance programs to ensure patients receive the needed medications.
$2,578,483 spent$5,760,542 earned by the program14% of program spendingMental health services - Bluestem Health provides mental and behavioral services, including individual and group therapy, psychological evaluations, crisis intervention, and substance abuse treatment.
$239,156 spent1% of program spendingAncillary services - Bluestem Health provides various ancillary services, including the sliding fee discount program, medicaid, snap, health insurance marketplace application assistance, laboratory testing, diagnostic imaging, and nutritional counseling. These services are integral to the center's holistic approach to patient care, supporting accurate diagnosis, effective treatment, and ongoing health management for all patients.
$19,190 spentof which $19,190 as grants0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,301,747.
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 2022 to 2023, from $21M to $31M (+44%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 21% · 2018 24% · 2019 19% · 2020 22% · 2021 24% · 2022 25% · 2023 11% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of BLUESTEM HEALTH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Brad Meyer
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $124 → $118.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 BLUESTEM HEALTH’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
BLUESTEM HEALTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BLUESTEM HEALTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
99% of BLUESTEM HEALTH's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $32k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Nebraska funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.8M 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
BLUESTEM HEALTH has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding BLUESTEM HEALTH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24.9M on record — $24.9M federal, $20 state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$24.9M
- OTHER SPEC PAYMENTS-MEDICIAL SERVICES$20
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BLUESTEM HEALTH
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 BLUESTEM HEALTH: 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 BLUESTEM HEALTH?
- BLUESTEM HEALTH (Nebraska) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,832,674 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($4,800,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BLUESTEM HEALTH have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $4,832,674 in grants to BLUESTEM HEALTH, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUESTEM HEALTH?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $4,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUESTEM HEALTH 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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