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Bryan Foundation

Bryan Foundation (Nebraska) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,587,390 to it, the largest being Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ($1,469,945). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$6.8M
Funders on record
42
Grants received
$6.6M
Net assets
$52M
27/42 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Bryan Foundation does

Mission

Bryan Foundation's mission is to advance health, excellence in patient care, and health-related education through philanthropic support of bryan health and affiliates.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Bryan Foundation provides financial support and fund-raising services to support its parent organization, bryan health, and its related non-profit affiliates to commitment to: (1) provide medical care to all individuals, without regard to their ability to pay, (2) provide advanced health care technology and treatment, (3) assure academic and continuing education for nurses, physicians and other healthcare professionals, and (4) provide scholarships for students seeking a career in healthcare, and primarily attend bryan college of health services.

    $6,667,070 spentof which $6,667,070 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,667,070.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($32M)2018 Revenue 48 ($3.5M) Expenses 104 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($32M)2019 Revenue 67 ($4.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 123 ($39M)2020 Revenue 194 ($14M) Expenses 509 ($7.5M) Net assets 153 ($48M)2021 Revenue 105 ($7.6M) Expenses 517 ($7.6M) Net assets 162 ($52M)2022 Revenue 87 ($6.3M) Expenses 727 ($11M) Net assets 131 ($41M)2023 Revenue 88 ($6.4M) Expenses 479 ($7.0M) Net assets 141 ($45M)2024 Revenue 94 ($6.8M) Expenses 166 ($2.4M) Net assets 164 ($52M)
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Revenue (94)Expenses (166)Net assets (164)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $52M to $42M (−19%).

$32M
$32M
$39M
$49M
$52M
$42M
$45M
$52M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

79% of Bryan Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$5.8M
’17
$1.9M
’18
$3.4M
’19
$6.6M
’20
$21k
’21
−$4.4M
’22
−$644k
’23
$4.4M
’24
28
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $214k → $332k.

7 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $474k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Bryan Medical Center). These are real filings, and they are not money Bryan Foundation raised.

From the IRS filings of Bryan Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 funders by total. 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

Bryan Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

45% 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 Bryan Foundation.

22%
largest funder
49%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 30% · 2019 73% · 2020 63% · 2021 74% · 2022 49% · 2023 17% — 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

39% of Bryan Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

54% of Bryan Foundation's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.

MN
WI
IA
OH
CO
NE
KS
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Bryan Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin64% · top quartile
Months of reserve27.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Bryan Foundation

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

25
board members
84%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

79%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NE

Part of a family of 23 related entities

  • Bryan Health · exempt
  • Crete Area Medical Center · exempt
  • Bryan Medical Center · exempt
  • Bryan Physician Network · exempt
  • Merrick Medical Center · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Bryan Foundation?
Bryan Foundation (Nebraska) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,587,390 to it, the largest being Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ($1,469,945). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Bryan Foundation have?
IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $6,587,390 in grants to Bryan Foundation, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Bryan Foundation?
Lincoln Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,469,945 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Bryan Foundation 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.

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 42 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