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FORUM FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS

FORUM FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS (Nebraska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $52,500 to it, the largest being VOSE RIVER CHARITABLE FUND ($52,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$184k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$53k
Net assets
$6k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Forum for Community Leaders does

Mission

To equip municipal leaders and other stakeholders with the tools needed to advocate for the expansion of opportunity and prosperity through the application of common sense sustainable market driven principles to create resilient strong communities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Organization hosts events and meetings to educate and foster discussion between private citizens and local leaders on identifying solutions to the emerging list of challenges facing communities including infrastructure energy and environmental stewardship.

    $125,581 spent
    83% of program spending
  2. Organization supported 501c4 organization that aligns with mission to identify solutions to the emerging list of challenges facing communities including infrastructure energy and environmental stewardship.

    $25,000 spent
    17% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $150,581.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($118k) Expenses 100 ($112k) Net assets 100 ($11k)2021 Revenue 131 ($154k) Expenses 131 ($146k) Net assets 168 ($18k)2022 Revenue 211 ($248k) Expenses 196 ($219k) Net assets 430 ($47k)2023 Revenue 138 ($163k) Expenses 180 ($201k) Net assets 75 ($8k)2024 Revenue 157 ($184k) Expenses 167 ($187k) Net assets 51 ($6k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (157)Expenses (167)Net assets (51)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 2022 to 2023, from $47k to $8k (−83%).

$11k
$18k
$47k
$8k
$6k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of FORUM FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,561 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’20
$7k
’21
$29k
’22
−$39k
’23
−$3k
’24
2.6
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

William Rogers

Chairman

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $28k → $25k.

Funder
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of FORUM FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS’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

FORUM FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Nebraska, across 1 state in all.

MD

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

’22
’23
Nebraska out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FORUM FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS has grown faster than half of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like FORUM FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS

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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FORUM FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS: 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 FORUM FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS?
FORUM FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS (Nebraska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $52,500 to it, the largest being VOSE RIVER CHARITABLE FUND ($52,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FORUM FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $52,500 in grants to FORUM FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FORUM FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS?
VOSE RIVER CHARITABLE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $52,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FORUM FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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