Nebraska · Nonprofit
LYONS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
LYONS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,100 to it, the largest being NORMIL FOUNDATION ($37,850). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $85k
- Net assets
- $787k
What Lyons Community Foundation does
Mission
The Lyons Community Foundation works to enrich the quality of life in lyons and the surrounding area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Lyons Community Foundation holds accounts that are awarded in the form of grants to benefit lyons and burt county for community economic development. These accounts include the property development committee, library endowment, junior golf, cougar cubs, cemetery fund, pool fund, cemetery fence fund, normil foundation community improvement, cemetery memorial board fund, main st. Historical preservation, park funds, and tiny country inn. Grants awarded for community improvement were in the amount of $32,378 in 2025.
$32,994 spentof which $32,378 as grants71% of program spendingScholarship funds: Lyons Community Foundation grants scholarships to deserving graduates of lyons-decatur northeast schools who are intending to continue their education. These accounts include the blue water destinations scholarship, hilt-acklie-dunlap memorial scholarship, Lyons Community Foundation scholarship, normil foundation scholarship, megan cameron scholarship, kirk1 scholarship, myron schoch scholarship, and sandra posvar scholarship. Scholarships in the amount of $13,500 were awarded in 2025.
$13,500 spentof which $13,500 as grants29% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $46,494.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $678k to $733k (+8%).
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.
65% of LYONS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $31k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 LYONS COMMUNITY 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
LYONS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
32% 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 LYONS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 57% · 2022 70% · 2023 65% — 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
65% of LYONS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
LYONS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LYONS COMMUNITY 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
36%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LYONS COMMUNITY 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 LYONS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
- LYONS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,100 to it, the largest being NORMIL FOUNDATION ($37,850). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LYONS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $85,100 in grants to LYONS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LYONS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
- NORMIL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $37,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LYONS COMMUNITY 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.
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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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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