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CHADRON STATE FOUNDATION

CHADRON STATE FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,029,852 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($356,946). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.2M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$2.0M
Net assets
$38M
14/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Chadron State Foundation does

Mission

The Chadron State Foundation is dedicated to enhancing chadron state college's ability to meet its primary educational mission in western nebraska. The foundation supports scholarship programs for the college and undertakes fundraising activity which provide resources vital to the mission of chadron state college in the areas of instruction, research, and service. The foundation recognizes the generosity of donors who, acting individually or as members of a group, provide chadron state an all important margin of excellence as it continues to meet the educational, economic, and cultural needs of western nebraska both today and well into the future.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The foundation provides support to chadron state college through scholarships and awards to the students of the college and provides institutional support of management and special projects related to the college.

    $1,600,612 spentof which $1,347,312 as grants$-566 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,600,612.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($21M)2018 Revenue 159 ($3.5M) Expenses 85 ($1.6M) Net assets 114 ($24M)2019 Revenue 197 ($4.4M) Expenses 167 ($3.1M) Net assets 121 ($25M)2020 Revenue 75 ($1.7M) Expenses 161 ($3.0M) Net assets 113 ($24M)2021 Revenue 142 ($3.1M) Expenses 79 ($1.5M) Net assets 148 ($31M)2022 Revenue 185 ($4.1M) Expenses 144 ($2.7M) Net assets 133 ($28M)2023 Revenue 121 ($2.7M) Expenses 142 ($2.6M) Net assets 144 ($30M)2024 Revenue 120 ($2.6M) Expenses 116 ($2.2M) Net assets 158 ($33M)2025 Revenue 190 ($4.2M) Expenses 102 ($1.9M) Net assets 181 ($38M)
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Revenue (190)Expenses (102)Net assets (181)

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 $24M to $32M (+30%).

$22M
$24M
$26M
$24M
$32M
$29M
$31M
$34M
$39M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 9% · 2018 6% · 2019 5% · 2020 13% · 2021 7% · 2022 6% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$348k
’17
$1.9M
’18
$1.2M
’19
−$1.3M
’20
$1.7M
’21
$1.4M
’22
$42k
’23
$478k
’24
$2.3M
’25
7.2
months of
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

Joanne Owens-Nausler

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed23023820202019181920
Joined·+10+3+2+3+0+4+2+2
No longer listed·2221231511
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $23k → $143k.

8 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 CHADRON STATE FOUNDATION’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

CHADRON STATE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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

52% 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 CHADRON STATE FOUNDATION.

18%
largest funder
45%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 41% · 2019 83% · 2020 66% · 2021 37% · 2022 39% · 2023 35% — 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

31% of CHADRON STATE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

76% of CHADRON STATE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.

WI
NJ
CT
CO
NE
MO
KS
TX

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $840k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like CHADRON STATE 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

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 16%Fundraising 12%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

65%

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 1 related entity

  • Chadron State College · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHADRON STATE FOUNDATION?
CHADRON STATE FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,029,852 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($356,946). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHADRON STATE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,029,852 in grants to CHADRON STATE FOUNDATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHADRON STATE FOUNDATION?
THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $356,946 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHADRON STATE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 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