Nebraska · Nonprofit
HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE
HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE (Nebraska) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,173,437 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($41,009,686). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $40M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $57M
- Net assets
- $44M
What Heartland Family Service does
Mission
To strengthen individuals and families in our community through education, counseling and support services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Counseling & prevention: programs in this area share a central focus on therapeutic services in order to treat current mental health and substance use issues, manage chronic illnesses, and intervene earlier to limit occurrences through mental health counseling, education, and prevention services. Programs within counseling & prevention include: all counseling and prevention programs, counseling (ne), family works (ne), ia substance abuse and gambling prevention, counseling (ia), prevention iowa - drug free communities (dfc), integrated health home, sarpy juvenile justice center, act - assertive community treatment (ia), heartland bridges, mental health crisis response team (ia), family works (ia), therapeutic school, asap sarpy crisis response, douglas county youth center, prevention - tfn/motac, childrens center, intensive psych rehab (ipr), heartland one oak, ne psych services, ia psych services, crisis stabilization center, ia ccbhc, and ne bbbhc. More information about these programs can be found at https://www.heartlandfamilyservice.org/counseling-prevention/. There were 4,367 individuals served throughout these programs; 92 households served; 11,911 hours of counseling…
$19,625,266 spentof which $116,596 as grants$8,361,044 earned by the program67% of program spendingHousing, safety & community wellbeing: the goal of programs in this area is to provide immediate, as well as long-term assistance to members of our community experiencing issues of domestic violence, sexual assault, homelessness, and financial crisis. Programs within housing, safety & community wellbeing include: generations center, in home omaha family support, heartland housing connections rrh, homeless prevention, heartland housing opportunities rrh, domestic violence / sexual assault services, vawa (domestic violence / sexual assault services), ne voca (domestic violence / sexual assault services), sasp (domestic violence / sexual assault services), pchl rrh, heartland housing solutions psh, heartland homes psh, homeless supportive services, heartland housing sanctuary, encompass housing, and homeless diversion. More information about these programs can be found at https://www.heartlandfamilyservice.org/child-and-family/. Within these programs there were 2,041 days of care, 209 households served, and 1,277 individuals served throughout these programs in 2024.
$9,530,948 spentof which $2,101,854 as grants$447,855 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,156,214.
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 2017 to 2018, from $35M to $47M (+34%).
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: 2017 55% · 2018 32% · 2019 53% · 2020 54% · 2021 48% · 2022 56% · 2023 57% · 2024 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
John Jeanetta
President/CEO
Board chair
Marcos Hernandez
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $3.1M → $3.6M.
10 of 85 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: $5.9M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of the Midlands). These are real filings, and they are not money HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE raised.
From the IRS filings of HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 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
HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 67% · 2019 71% · 2020 50% · 2021 81% · 2022 76% · 2023 51% — diversifying over time.
“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
42% of HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
88% of HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $905k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $37.9M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$27.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$9.0M
- Department of Justice$1.4M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Hfs Council Bluffs LLC · disregarded
- Charles E Lakin Human Services Campus Foundation · exempt
- The North Omaha Intergenerational Campus Inc · exempt
- Nfw LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE?
- HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE (Nebraska) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,173,437 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($41,009,686). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $57,173,437 in grants to HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $41,009,686 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 85 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