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ELWOOD AREA FOUNDATION INC

ELWOOD AREA FOUNDATION INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,943 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($46,389). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$336k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$117k
Net assets
$253k
2/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Elwood Area Foundation Inc does

Mission

Community imporvement, youth scholarships and grants for edcuation

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Elwood gala 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

    $40,536 spentof which $40,379 as grants
    43% of program spending
  2. Give big elwood 2023 and 2025

    $53,415 spentof which $53,525 as grants
    57% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $93,904. The per-program figures do not add up to the total the return states; both are shown as filed.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($124k) Expenses 100 ($129k) Net assets 100 ($647k)2019 Revenue 69 ($85k) Expenses 135 ($175k) Net assets 90 ($580k)2020 Revenue 76 ($94k) Expenses 75 ($97k) Net assets 93 ($601k)2021 Revenue 90 ($111k) Expenses 112 ($145k) Net assets 90 ($581k)2022 Revenue 550 ($682k) Expenses 435 ($562k) Net assets 90 ($585k)2023 Revenue 262 ($325k) Expenses 246 ($318k) Net assets 91 ($591k)2024 Revenue 200 ($248k) Expenses 166 ($215k) Net assets 109 ($708k)2025 Revenue 271 ($336k) Expenses 298 ($386k) Net assets 39 ($253k)
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Revenue (271)Expenses (298)Net assets (39)Peer revenue range

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 $591k to $708k (+20%).

$647k
$580k
$601k
$581k
$585k
$591k
$708k
$663k
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

87% of ELWOOD AREA FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’18
−$90k
’19
−$3k
’20
−$33k
’21
$120k
’22
$6k
’23
$33k
’24
−$49k
’25
3.3
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

Kate Hatch

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed119999989
Joined·+1+2+0+0+0+0+1
No longer listed·3200010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $20k.

4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 ELWOOD AREA FOUNDATION 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.

How concentrated its funding is

ELWOOD AREA FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

74% 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 ELWOOD AREA FOUNDATION INC.

40%
largest funder
70%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 39% · 2023 50% — 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

29% of ELWOOD AREA FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

ELWOOD AREA FOUNDATION INC draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Nebraska, across 2 states in all.

NE
FL

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Against its field

ELWOOD AREA FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like ELWOOD AREA FOUNDATION 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

35% of spending goes to programs.

Program 35%Management 16%Fundraising 49%

Governance

8
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ELWOOD AREA FOUNDATION INC?
ELWOOD AREA FOUNDATION INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,943 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($46,389). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ELWOOD AREA FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $116,943 in grants to ELWOOD AREA FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ELWOOD AREA FOUNDATION INC?
MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $46,389 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ELWOOD AREA FOUNDATION 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 8 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