Nebraska · Nonprofit
Foundry Community Foundation
Foundry Community Foundation (Nebraska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $746,794 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($456,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $747k
- Net assets
- $834k
What Foundry Community Foundation does
Mission
The foundry is a collaborative resource in downtown lincoln to support, educate, and develop the nebraska purpose driven community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To provide an expanded physical location for nonprofits that do not have their own location/space. We provide nonprofits with shared space and amenities to support their missions and offere education, programs, workships, and other training and community events to tenants and community members.
$433,799 spent$501,299 earned by the program49% of program spendingTo provide fiscal sponsorships and incubation support for emerging nonprofits focused on community impact in nebraska. Examples include: imagine omaha (focused on african american coaching), the omaha comedy festival (lifting up the omaha community with education and laughter), and the do more good movement (elevating purpose). The sparkworks program provides best-practice curriculum and coaching to groups like this.
$269,566 spent$241,223 earned by the program30% of program spendingTo provide talent and capacity support to nebraska nonprofits with signature programs such as intern foundry and base camp foundry.
$187,813 spent$4,472 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $891,178.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.2M to $2.2M (+91%).
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: 2020 21% · 2021 5% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of Foundry Community Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Julie Murray-Jensen
Exec director
Board chair
Jay Wilkinson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $110k → $10k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 Foundry Community Foundation’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
Foundry Community Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 Foundry Community Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Foundry Community Foundation's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $286k 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.
Against its field
Foundry Community Foundation's revenue grew 81% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Foundry Community Foundation
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Foundry Community Foundation: 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 Foundry Community Foundation?
- Foundry Community Foundation (Nebraska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $746,794 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($456,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Foundry Community Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $746,794 in grants to Foundry Community Foundation, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Foundry Community Foundation?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $456,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Foundry Community Foundation 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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