Nebraska · Nonprofit
GILLWELL FOUNDATION
GILLWELL FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $871,551 to it, the largest being BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 326 MID-AMERICA COUNCIL ($350,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $949k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $872k
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What Gillwell Foundation does
Mission
To support the mid-america council by providing unparalleled programs and outdoor experiences that engage our communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Support of the mid-america council through youth camp and other real properties which allow for the training of boys, girls, and young men and women in scoutcraft and support comprehensive youth development, character building, citizenship training and mental and physical fitness.
$412,331 spent$377,116 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $412,331.
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.
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 $13M to $8.0M (−37%).
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.
59% of GILLWELL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Chris Mehaffey
Secretary/executive director
Board chair
Mark Dreiling
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $616k → $35k.
From the IRS filings of GILLWELL 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
GILLWELL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 GILLWELL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 57% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of GILLWELL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
GILLWELL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GILLWELL 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
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Boy Scouts of America 326 Mid-America Council · exempt
- James E West Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GILLWELL 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 GILLWELL FOUNDATION?
- GILLWELL FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $871,551 to it, the largest being BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 326 MID-AMERICA COUNCIL ($350,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GILLWELL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $871,551 in grants to GILLWELL FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GILLWELL FOUNDATION?
- BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 326 MID-AMERICA COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GILLWELL 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.
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 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