Nebraska · Nonprofit
CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC
CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,066,716 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY ($4,298,322). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $6.1M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Cedars Youth Services Inc does
Mission
To help children and youth achieve safety, stability, and enduring family relationships. Cedars founding and enduring priority is safety for children and youth who have experienced, or are vulnerable to, abuse, neglect and/or homelessness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency services for kids for children and youth unable to live at home due to neglect, abuse, homelessness, runaway, or other family crises, cedars provides an individualized array of emergency and supportive housing to protect their safety, promote their healthy growth and development and facilitate their successful transition to permanency. Services are provided through the following programs: foster care, youth emergency shelter, street outreach, and bridges transitional living. Foster care staff work closely with kids, biological parents, and foster families to build and maintain relationships. Individual families, who are either licensed or child-specific, provide foster care and emergency placements for children, ages birth-18. Permanency is the goal for each child, which may include reunification, adoption, guardianship, or independent living. Respite care, support groups, and extensive training opportunities are also available for children and families, as well as 24- hour support for the foster family and youth. Cedars pioneers center serves as the only short-term emergency shelter for youth, ages 12-18, who do not have immediate access to a safe living arrangement.…
$10,402,072 spent$8,893,871 earned by the program68% of program spendingFamily preservation focusing on maintaining positive family and community connections, these prevention and early intervention services are provided to assist families in remaining intact and to reunify those currently living apart. Focus is placed on parenting skill building, appropriate child and youth development, and resource networking. Cedars also provides children with early and ongoing developmental opportunities. Extra efforts are made to accommodate low-income families receiving state childcare subsidies and offers scholarships to assist financial need. Services are provided through northbridge early childhood development center, community learning centers, and in family homes. Services include northbridge early childhood development program, community learning centers, ecological in-home family services, healthy families home visiting, partners in permanency, community response, sixpence, and family support. Cedars northbridge early childhood development center (ecdc) serves children, ages six weeks to six years. Classes are led by educated and experienced teachers and offers the benefit of an early childhood and family therapist. Cedars ecdc is accredited by the…
$2,575,076 spent$1,875,146 earned by the program17% of program spendingYouth intervention services for youth who are at risk for or who have committed law violations, cedars provides positive youth development programs to prevent subsequent law violations and prepare them for successful community living. Programs include community youth coaching, reception center, and electronic monitoring. Youth and their families enrolled in these services receive support in the areas of education, employment, recreation, basic living skills, crisis intervention and healthy relationships. Community youth coaching is a youth-guided, family-driven detention alternative that provides safety and stability through intensive relationship-building and youth development. A community youth coach serves as a positive role model, providing advocacy and individualized coaching and support to the youth as they build critical problem-solving strategies to help interrupt cycles of negative behavior. Reception center offers a safe, community-based facility for probation officers and law enforcement to conduct initial assessments and access expanded intake assessments, as well as support and referrals for youth and their families. The center operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week…
$1,330,789 spent$821,782 earned by the program9% of program spendingOther
$991,966 spent$847,931 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,299,903.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.8M to $4.3M (+55%).
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 9% · 2018 10% · 2019 13% · 2020 15% · 2021 30% · 2022 18% · 2023 14% · 2024 14% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
31% of CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Judy Halstead
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $531k → $724k.
6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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: $13M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Cedars Home for Children Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC’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
CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 81% · 2019 69% · 2020 50% · 2021 62% · 2022 68% · 2023 83% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
97% of CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $834k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.7M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.8M
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 CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC?
- CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,066,716 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY ($4,298,322). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $6,066,716 in grants to CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $4,298,322 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CEDARS YOUTH SERVICES INC 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 29 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