Nebraska · Nonprofit
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF BUF COUNTY INC
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF BUF COUNTY INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being Bryan Hospital Kearney ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $689k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Economic Development Council of Buf County Inc does
Mission
Promote meaningful and prosperous development for the city of kearney nebraska and all of buffalo county nebraska.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Promote economic development in buffalo county by providing funding, primarily in the form of direcct grants and short term loans, to organizations for development benefitting the region through the creation of jobs, job training and education, and the circulation of business revenues within the area.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.6M to $2.3M (+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 47% · 2018 56% · 2019 79% · 2020 67% · 2021 60% · 2022 46% · 2023 60% · 2024 80% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF BUF COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Jerry Hellman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $50k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Economic Development Council of Buf County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF BUF COUNTY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF BUF COUNTY 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF BUF COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF BUF COUNTY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF BUF COUNTY 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF BUF COUNTY INC: 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 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF BUF COUNTY INC?
- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF BUF COUNTY INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being Bryan Hospital Kearney ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF BUF COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF BUF COUNTY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF BUF COUNTY INC?
- Bryan Hospital Kearney is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF BUF COUNTY 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.
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 1 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