Nebraska · Nonprofit
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES (Nebraska) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,090,636 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY ($1,487,191). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Catholic Social Services does
Mission
To perform the works of mercy in response to the call of god. Our corporal works of mercy performed primarily include providing food, clothing, shelter, and prison ministry. Our spiritual works of mercy performed primarily include counseling, instructing, and comforting.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food, clothing, and material assistance - serving the most basic needs - food, clothing, and household goods - that is our goal. On site services are available in lincoln, auburn, imperial and hastings nebraska. Services offered include food pantries, budget counseling, social service referrals, and financial assistance for payments of rent, utilities, deposits, vehicle repairs, medical bills, and other necessities. Our st. Francis food pantry in lincoln is the second largest pantry in the city. The hastings and lincoln offices supplement their offerings of food through a brown bag lunch program given to those needing prepared food in the hastings and lincoln areas.
$2,743,184 spentof which $1,768,542 as grants$433,002 earned by the program44% of program spendingGift and thrift - material relief through our gift and thrift stores in lincoln, hastings, imperial, and auburn nebraska. The stores sell clothing, household items, furniture, and appliances at reasonable prices. We call our thrift store activity, "giving squared; a donor provides css with an in-kind gift, which we can provide to a needy family at below market prices and any cash profits earned are given away again through our assistance programs. The 'gift' portion of the stores is managed through our voucher program. Our case workers identify families who would benefit from an in-kind item and offer them a voucher to the gift and thrift store. The family can then shop in our clean, organized, well-lighted stores along with other customers, thus respecting their dignity. The voucher can be used to offset or eliminate the cost of the item.
$1,597,200 spentof which $120 as grants26% of program spendingRefugee resettlement - with the europeans left homeless by world war ii and cubans fleeing communism in the 1960's, the diocese of lincoln has been welcoming refugees in the name of christ for more than half a century. Today, refugees from all over the world fleeing persecution, poverty, and war begin new lives in southern nebraska with the assistance of css. Resettlement services include securing housing, cultural orientation, food, medical, and dental services, and job placement. All refugee services are designed to assist the families to achieve self-sufficiency at the earliest possible date.
$1,210,735 spentof which $156,346 as grants19% of program spendingEvangelization - two important works of mercy are visiting the sick and imprisoned. Catholic Social Services conducts programs in each of these areas. Individuals incarcerated in prisons located in our diocese are supported and assisted spiritually by a full-time catholic pastor. Our agency also supports the activities of the apostolate of suffering, which produces publications designed to support and assist those who are suffering from chronic or terminal illnesses. An important piece of our publications sent to homes throughout the diocese is to instruct and encourage families to live and strengthen their catholic faith. Holy cards, rosaries, and tools to assist families in their spiritual growth are also offered at most of our agency's functions.
$64,200 spent1% of program spendingHousing - housing services are provided through our st. Gianna women's homes program in lincoln and hastings, nebraska. Safe, secure housing and utility assistance are provided to families and their children fleeing domestic violence. Scattered site housing and case-managed apartments are provided to 32 families at any one time.
$381,174 spentof which $69,757 as grants6% of program spendingChildcare
$218,459 spent4% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,214,952.
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.
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 $3.8M to $6.5M (+71%).
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 14% · 2018 6% · 2019 3% · 2020 5% · 2021 9% · 2022 15% · 2023 16% · 2024 24% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Katie Patrick
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $364k → $621k.
11 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
70% 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 CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 36% · 2019 38% · 2020 36% · 2021 33% · 2022 35% · 2023 37% — 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
58% of CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
89% of CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $26k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$26k
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 CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- St Gianna's Institute · disregarded
- St Joseph Institute · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: 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 CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES?
- CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES (Nebraska) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,090,636 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY ($1,487,191). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $5,090,636 in grants to CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES?
- UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $1,487,191 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES 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 40 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing