Nebraska · Nonprofit
I BE BLACK GIRL
I BE BLACK GIRL (Nebraska) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,857,329 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($1,249,275). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What I Be Black Girl does
Mission
I Be Black Girl serves as a collective for black women, femmes and girls to actualize their full potential to authentically be, through autonomy, abundance and liberation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community-led Investments: Resource redistribution led by and for Black women, femmes, and girls in Nebraska will change the landscape of philanthropy by inviting Black women, femmes, and girls to build collective power and remove extractive practices.
$476,286 spent20% of program spendingEconomic Opportunity: Build economic security, access, abundance and dignity by addressing system disinvestment in housing, economic development, wages and homeownership.
$213,036 spent9% of program spendingMaternal Health Initiatives: Catalyzing a movement for positive birth outcomes by disrupting the systems that perpetuate incidence of maternal death, near death, and traumatic experiences using strategies that center the voices, experiences, and leadership of Black women and people with the capacity for pregnancy.
$1,159,237 spent48% of program spendingPeople Power: Create Black political power through organizing and community-led leadership.
$587,729 spent24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,436,288.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $4.2M (+182%).
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: 2023 10% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of I BE BLACK GIRL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Ashlei Spivey
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $20k → $796k.
3 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 I BE BLACK GIRL’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
I BE BLACK GIRL 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
26% 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 I BE BLACK GIRL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 44% · 2023 32% — 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.
Where its funders are
61% of I BE BLACK GIRL's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $134k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
I BE BLACK GIRL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding I BE BLACK GIRL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.2M
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 I BE BLACK GIRL
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for I BE BLACK GIRL: 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 I BE BLACK GIRL?
- I BE BLACK GIRL (Nebraska) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,857,329 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($1,249,275). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does I BE BLACK GIRL have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $4,857,329 in grants to I BE BLACK GIRL, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of I BE BLACK GIRL?
- THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,249,275 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like I BE BLACK GIRL 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 24 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