Nebraska · Nonprofit
GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION
GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,689,680 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($1,737,005). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.6M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $8.4M
What Greater Omaha Chamber Foundation does
Mission
To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Economic development - also referred to as prosper omaha, the current strategy/campaign, or greater omaha economic development partnership, a program name that reflects a collaborative effort to support and enhance economic development activities and opportunities in the region. Areas of focus include business retention, expansion and attraction, from start-ups to fortune 500 companies, and minority owned and international businesses. Specific industry focus includes agribusiness, military and defense, financial services, logistics and life science. Services include incentives and training, available sitesand buildings, and demographic, workforce and community data. Another focus has been helping businesses work through their talent and workforce challenges and offering new programming to address those areas.
$3,865,994 spentof which $108,125 as grants$370,283 earned by the program82% of program spendingLeadership development - focuses on developing effective leaders who will strengthen and transform the community. Programs are designed for young professionals on up to senior level executives. Topics that leadership programs cover include community trusteeship, leadership styles, community awareness, inclusivity, collaboration and innovation. Participants are exposed to various elements of the community such as its problems, challenges and opportunities. They are challenged to look at ways they can make an impact and get involved. They are introduced to well-known business leaders, politicians and civic leaders to gain insight and experience and given opportunities to become engaged in the community.
$244,296 spent$122,563 earned by the program5% of program spendingEvents - focuses on leadership by celebrating the past and shaping the future. The past is honored by recognizing leaders that have made a difference in the community through their business and civic contributions. The future is shaped by giving young professionals an opportunity to engage with each other, attend thought-providing sessions with topics on leadership, community engagement, business ethics, inclusivity, etc. The goal is to foster personal and professional development and encourage young professionals to develop into future business and community leaders.
$585,549 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,695,839.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $5.9M to $9.7M (+64%).
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: 2019 5% · 2020 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Heath Mello
President & CEO
Board chair
Carmen Tapio
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $109k → $991k.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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: $886k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Omaha Development Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER 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
GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
34% 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 GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 37% · 2019 63% · 2020 28% · 2021 34% · 2022 53% · 2023 30% — 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.
How long its funders stay
63% of GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
71% of GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER 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. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER 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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Omaha Chamber Investments Inc · disregarded
- Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce · exempt
- Omaha Chamber Services Inc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION?
- GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,689,680 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($1,737,005). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $6,689,680 in grants to GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,737,005 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 27 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