Nebraska · Nonprofit
ECHO COLLECTIVE
ECHO COLLECTIVE (Nebraska) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $421,954 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY ($79,980). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $427k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $422k
- Net assets
- $272k
What Echo Collective does
Mission
To connect and empower refugee and immigrant women by providing opporunities for personal growth and bulding cross-cultural relationships in a nurturing environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The refinery - provides refugee and immigrant women the opportunity to achieve economic independence and build social capital through business education and professional mentorships. Focus on serving women who are still in the process of learning the english language.
$122,486 spent53% of program spendingRefined coaching - provides personalized business coaching for refugee and immigrant businesses that are woman led.
$51,375 spent22% of program spendingTextile weaving - a class for textile weaving in partnership with merchandising, and fashion design department at the university of nebraska - lincoln and with the hand weavers guild of lincoln.
$23,966 spent10% of program spendingCapital readiness - provides personalized buiness coaching or refugee and immigrant businesses that are woman led.
$18,703 spent8% of program spendingAll others including - civic leadership, peer support group and yarn circle
$16,259 spent7% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $232,789.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $148k to $283k (+92%).
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: 2024 41% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of ECHO COLLECTIVE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Lily Ealey
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $19k → $73k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 ECHO COLLECTIVE’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
ECHO COLLECTIVE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
56% 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 ECHO COLLECTIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 79% · 2022 62% · 2023 48% — 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.
Where its funders are
55% of ECHO COLLECTIVE's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ECHO COLLECTIVE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ECHO COLLECTIVE
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 ECHO COLLECTIVE: 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 ECHO COLLECTIVE?
- ECHO COLLECTIVE (Nebraska) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $421,954 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY ($79,980). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ECHO COLLECTIVE have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $421,954 in grants to ECHO COLLECTIVE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ECHO COLLECTIVE?
- UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $79,980 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECHO COLLECTIVE 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 15 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