Nebraska · Nonprofit
Collective For Youth
Collective For Youth (Nebraska) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,844,762 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($49,910,794). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $59M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Collective For Youth does
Mission
To advocate for, facilitate resources, and provide quality training for out of school time program providers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Collective for Youth (CFY) is a connector for advocacy, resources and training for out of school time providers. They are committed to connecting youth to high quality programs and to growing a community of thriving partners who ignite the imagination and grow the minds of youth. CFY partners with more than 60 providers to oversee after school activities for over 6,000 elementary and middle school-aged students in 41 Omaha public schools each year. Each year over 300 youth educators from 30 community organizations participate on professional development programs provided by CFY. Beyond facilitating the after school programs, CFY coordinates high quality experiences for youth. This includes multiple educational field trips during the summer for over 20 different organizations. This allows the youth to get out into the community. Our partners have access to a STEM library that provides resources for hands on STEM activities including training and curriculum support.
$9,798,132 spentof which $8,541,328 as grants$750 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,798,132.
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 2023 to 2024, from $19M to $28M (+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 25% · 2018 23% · 2019 13% · 2020 16% · 2021 14% · 2022 49% · 2023 16% · 2024 18% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Collective For Youth’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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.
Chief executive
Megan Addison
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $3.1M → $7.6M.
1 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Collective For Youth’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
Collective For Youth leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 82% · 2019 96% · 2020 61% · 2021 83% · 2022 93% · 2023 88% — 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
54% of Collective For Youth's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
100% of Collective For Youth's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $157 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Collective For Youth holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Collective For Youth
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
30%
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 Collective For Youth: 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 Collective For Youth?
- Collective For Youth (Nebraska) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,844,762 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($49,910,794). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Collective For Youth have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $58,844,762 in grants to Collective For Youth, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Collective For Youth?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $49,910,794 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Collective For Youth 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 17 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