Nebraska · Nonprofit
HEARTLAND MUSEUM OF MILITARY VEHICL
HEARTLAND MUSEUM OF MILITARY VEHICL (Nebraska) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,497 to it, the largest being LEXINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($126,987). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $84k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $145k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Heartland Museum of Military Vehicl does
Mission
To develop a place to honor america's veterans of the battlefront and the home front. The museum offers veterans a place to remember, where they can touch and smell and sit in the very vehicles, which, in some cases, may have saved their lives. The museum is dedicated to the restoration and preservation of historical military equipment o fall types and the promotion of public knowledge about the vehicles and other military memorabilia on display.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The museum exhibits a large historical military vehicle collection. The museum is free to the public and hosted over 12,000 visitors during the year icluding veteran groups, service organizations, veterans reunions and many other group and organizations. Many schools and youth groups brought children to tour the museum.
$101,349 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $101,349.
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 $1.4M to $1.3M (−4%).
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 48% · 2020 47% · 2021 4% · 2022 14% · 2023 13% · 2024 21% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HEARTLAND MUSEUM OF MILITARY VEHICL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $91k → $12k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 HEARTLAND MUSEUM OF MILITARY VEHICL’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
HEARTLAND MUSEUM OF MILITARY VEHICL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 HEARTLAND MUSEUM OF MILITARY VEHICL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
87% of HEARTLAND MUSEUM OF MILITARY VEHICL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $19k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $127k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 MUSEUM OF MILITARY VEHICL's revenue fell 18% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like HEARTLAND MUSEUM OF MILITARY VEHICL
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEARTLAND MUSEUM OF MILITARY VEHICL: 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 HEARTLAND MUSEUM OF MILITARY VEHICL?
- HEARTLAND MUSEUM OF MILITARY VEHICL (Nebraska) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,497 to it, the largest being LEXINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($126,987). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HEARTLAND MUSEUM OF MILITARY VEHICL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $145,497 in grants to HEARTLAND MUSEUM OF MILITARY VEHICL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEARTLAND MUSEUM OF MILITARY VEHICL?
- LEXINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $126,987 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEARTLAND MUSEUM OF MILITARY VEHICL 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 2 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