Nebraska · Nonprofit
FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY
FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY (Nebraska) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,231,664 to it, the largest being NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION ($4,644,255). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Fremont Area United Way does
Mission
The Fremont Area United Way is working to advance the common good by focusing on a healthy community, youth opportunity, financial security, and community resiliency. Our goal is to create long-lasting changes that prevent problems from happening in the first place. Our vision for the dodge and washington counties is to create solutions to community issues where we can make a difference. We hope you want to be a part of the change. We think we can do more together than any of us can do alone. This is what it means to "live united."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Fremont Area United Way seeks to identify the most pressing health and human service issues in our local community and distribute resources in such a way as to make the greatest impact possible- to create real, lasting changes in the lives of our neighbors in the areas of education, income, and health.The numerous programs funded by UW grants promoted early learning and success in school, helped families move to financial stability, and supported access to health care and improving family well-being. Fremont Area United Way is embracing United Way World Wide change to moving to community impact work and improving community outcomes with local partners.United Way is leading a community collaboration in creating community change. United Way is leading a community transformation to address school readiness, social and emotional needs, as well as prevention work. United Way has received many grants to support community change.
$1,093,641 spentof which $135,000 as grants$49,734 earned by the program75% of program spendingFunded by the annual campaign, agency grants are given to community partners making measureable results in education, income, health, and basic needs. Additionally, the organization continued its focus on early literacy by being the local funder for the dolly parton imagination library program, providing free monthly books to dodge county children from birth to age five.Fremont Area United Way responds to community needs in the areas of food, security, and housing stability.
$364,480 spentof which $317,558 as grants25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,458,121.
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.
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 $2.0M to $2.6M (+31%).
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: 2018 22% · 2019 26% · 2020 36% · 2021 59% · 2022 60% · 2023 57% · 2024 62% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Shaun Custard
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $357k → $655k.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $332k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fremont Area Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY raised.
From the IRS filings of FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 funders by total. 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
FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 93% · 2019 83% · 2020 71% · 2021 92% · 2022 94% · 2023 97% — growing more concentrated.
“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
27% of FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
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
94% of FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $112k 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.
Against its field
FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY is better cushioned than half of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY?
- FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY (Nebraska) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,231,664 to it, the largest being NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION ($4,644,255). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $5,231,664 in grants to FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY?
- NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,644,255 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY 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 20 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