Nebraska · Nonprofit
JOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
JOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,647 to it, the largest being Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ($117,587). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $584k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $304k
- Net assets
- $826k
What Joshua Collingsworth Memorial Foundation does
Mission
The main purpose of this foundation is to educate children and parents of the importance of water safety and awareness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Joshua Collingsworth Memorial Foundation (JCMF) experienced many accomplishments during 2021. An average of 100 Rotary clubs from across the United States (plus several outside of the US) participate in Josh the Otter. In the local Nebraska area of Omaha and Lincoln, Josh the Otter is included as part of the preschool, kindergarten and elementary schools. There are approximately 275,000 children who participate In Josh the Otter through Rotary club efforts. Over 450,000 Josh the Otter books have been distributed over the last (almost) 14 years; averaging 35,000 per year. We expect to distribute approximately 50,000 over this next year as demand increases. 88 Mascot suits are utilized in Josh the Otter programs in US, Canada and Australia.
$312,979 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $312,979.
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 2023 to 2024, from $625k to $840k (+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: 2020 8% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of JOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $10k → $29k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 JOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL 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
JOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 JOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 61% · 2019 40% · 2020 73% · 2021 81% · 2022 67% · 2023 44% — 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
25% of JOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
56% of JOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION'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 $135k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside Nebraska, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $169k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
JOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 3,208 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,208 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like JOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL 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
57% 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 JOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: 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 JOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
- JOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,647 to it, the largest being Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ($117,587). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $303,647 in grants to JOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
- Lincoln Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $117,587 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOSHUA COLLINGSWORTH MEMORIAL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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