Nebraska · Nonprofit
HEART MINISTRY CENTER
HEART MINISTRY CENTER (Nebraska) receives grants from 93 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,326,767 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($7,132,273). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 93
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Heart Ministry Center does
Mission
Heart Ministry Center's mission is to provide food, healthcare, and a way forward to people severely affected by poverty in the omaha area. Heart Ministry Center's core programs include a choice food distribution program, monen healthcare clinic (which provides medical, dental, vision, and mental health services), willing partner case management program, fresh start job training/placement program, and two social enterprises (fresh start laundromat and fresh floral).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Heart ministry's food distribution pantry is the largest of its kind in nebraska & provides free food for omaha community members. Community members can shop in heart ministry's grocery area where those participating can choose the food during their personalized shopping experience. Our choice food distribution experience nurtures both dignity and relationship. Through these food distribution relationships, we are able to share the campus full of resources that our now 27,000 square foot campus represents with our ultimate goal being meeting people where they are & journeying into self-sufficiency.
$8,831,928 spent92% of program spendingHeart ministry's job training programs: the fresh start program provides intensive support for omaha community members so they can break cycles of unemployment, addiction, toxic relationships and mental health issues. If a participant makes it through the 3 week trial period, they are assigned a fresh start facilitator & participate in programming 6 days a week (40 hours weekly) for 9 months on the Heart Ministry Center campus. This programming includes skill building groups, work in the Heart Ministry Center food distribution area, budgeting, & job placement. To aide in the support, bills are paid during the period by the center. The evolution of fresh start is our social enterprise laundromat and the flower shop. The laundromat business unit created 5 jobs in laundry, 3 jobs in floral, and a viable good/service for both community utilization & improvement. Fresh start laundromat provides laundry services to local community members. A portion of the members receivefree or reduced services. Fresh floral provides floral arrangements and event services. Both enterprise initiatives are a community-minded social enterprises in omaha that provides employmentopportunities for graduates…
$606,446 spentof which $233,224 as grants$439,104 earned by the program6% of program spendingHeart ministry's willing partner program supports omaha community members to obtain long term financial independence. All community members who participate in willing partner are assigned a Heart Ministry Center navigator. The navigator completes an evidence based self-sufficiency assessment with each community member and this assessment helps the community member understand their barriers to self-sufficiency and the assessment also guides goal setting. Navigators then work collaboratively with community members to achieve their goals in areas including employment, public benefits, budgeting, housing and transportation.
$212,902 spent2% of program spendingThe monen healthcare clinic provides free medical, dental, vision, mental health, occupational therapy, and physical therapy services for community members in need. During the year ended june 30, 2025, the monen healthcare clinic provided assistance to approximately 6,000+ individuals.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,651,276.
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 $11M to $15M (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 2% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of HEART MINISTRY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Damany Rahn
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $391k → $2.3M.
17 of 93 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 HEART MINISTRY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 93 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
HEART MINISTRY CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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
29% 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 HEART MINISTRY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 68% · 2019 80% · 2020 26% · 2021 45% · 2022 27% · 2023 39% — 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
53% of HEART MINISTRY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
96% of HEART MINISTRY CENTER's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
HEART MINISTRY CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like HEART MINISTRY CENTER
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER?
- HEART MINISTRY CENTER (Nebraska) receives grants from 93 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,326,767 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($7,132,273). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEART MINISTRY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 93 organizations giving $19,326,767 in grants to HEART MINISTRY CENTER, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEART MINISTRY CENTER?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,132,273 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEART MINISTRY CENTER 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 93 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing