Nebraska · Nonprofit
EASTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP
EASTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP (Nebraska) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,565,560 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($1,422,341). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Eastern Nebraska Community Action Partnership does
Mission
Encap provides high-impact programs to help people get ahead.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Encap launched its matched savings program (msp) in fy25. Based on curriculum from the center for financial social work, msp gives people time to reflect on their relationship with money, develop a habit of savings, and get ahead over time. Once enrolled, participants agree to attend two financial coaching sessions per month with one of encap's two certified financial social workers, as well as monthly peer groups. Over the year-long program, broken into two six-month phases, participants must save a minimum of $10 per month. At the end of phase 1, encap matches participant savings (up to $600) 2:1. At the end of phase 2, we will match savings 3:1. Msp helps households improve their financial wellbeing and longer-term economic stability and mobility.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Encap's commodity supplemental food program (csfp), offered via the usda, reduces food insecurity of older adults throughout douglas, sarpy, and cass counties, and fort calhoun by providing essential food to approximately 1,400 income-eligible seniors age 60+ per month. The program distributes food packages from encap's north omaha office (2406 fowler ave. / 68111) and maintains strong partnerships with area food rescue and food distribution organizations, and businesses, to provide a diversity of fresh and non-perishable foods all it serves.
$1,010,687 spent$92,542 earned by the program43% of program spendingEncap owns and operates the bellevue pantry. The bellevue pantry serves more than 18,000 individuals each year. Of those served, approximately 16% (or 1 in 7 households) are members of the military community, including active-duty members and their families. The pantry offers food distribution services monday to thursday at 1912 hancock street in bellevue, ne. The pantry also delivers food to individual households who are not able to visit the pantry due to mobility or health challenges. The bellevue pantry provides meal-based distribution. Items supplied are coordinated with recipe suggestions so that families can make a meal out of the food they receive. This is intended to make meal planning easier, give relief to already stretched budgets, and reduce food waste. The bellevue pantry also provide personal hygiene and other essential household items to people who need them. In early 2027, encap will open the new bellevue pantry at the site of the former bellevue public library. This significantly larger space will give the pantry warehouse space to store non-perishable and fresh foods, an area for client choice food selection, and meeting spaces for staff and community partners.
$647,289 spent27% of program spendingEncap support services provides emergency financial hardship assistance (direct and referral) and connections to community resources to households in douglas county and sarpy county. Support services partners with a diverse group of community organizations, schools, volunteers, and churches in both counties to meet the needs of households facing crisis. Participants are offered optional coaching to help them create a plan to prevent future financial hardship.
$404,544 spent17% of program spendingEncap senior longevity provides multiple evidence-based initiatives within its to adults aged 60+ in north omaha to improve participants' physical, social, and emotional health. In addition, participants engage in a diversity of enrichment and educational activities, including gardening, cooking and nutrition classes, digital literacy, and arts/culture.
$309,946 spent$54,096 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,372,466.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.4M to $2.3M (+63%).
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: 2018 64% · 2019 67% · 2020 67% · 2021 69% · 2022 57% · 2023 51% · 2024 39% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Aaron Bowen
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $35k → $153k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 EASTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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
EASTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 79%; 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: 2019 57% · 2020 38% · 2021 46% · 2022 39% · 2023 41% — 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
43% of EASTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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 EASTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like EASTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EASTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP?
- EASTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP (Nebraska) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,565,560 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($1,422,341). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EASTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $2,565,560 in grants to EASTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,422,341 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 12 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