Nebraska · Nonprofit
MAYS FOUNDATION
MAYS FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,591,448 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($5,366,255). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $291k
What Mays Foundation does
Mission
Our mission is to identify strengths and weaknesses of youth with challenging backgrounds and provide programming that uncovers hidden skills and talents, while forming ongoing community partnerships enabling us to provide additional services to support youth and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Day and evening reporting - youth come to us and we work with them to develop social skills, increase academic skills, build character, and move toward independent living as they get closer to being on their own. Day reporting takes place during the day, when students would typically be in school, however, if they are unable or unwilling to attend due to suspension, expulsion, transfer, etc, they come to us. Evening reporting takes place after school and focuses on enrichment and character building.
$409,297 spent75% of program spendingGang intervention - mays works with youth who are involved in gangs, as well as those who are simply affiliated or are heading down the path to becoming gang members, to discover alternative activities and ways of thinking. This includes our annual hood to the woods initiative where we take gang involved youth on an outdoor adventure/challenge trip to colorado and they learn outdoor skills and must learn to work with those they consider "enemies."
$81,860 spent15% of program spendingFamily support - this includes the families of our youth - we work with youth and their families to learn ways to positively engage and communicate, often acting as a liaison between parents and children who need help in understanding each other.
$54,574 spent10% of program spendingOther.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $545,731.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $123k to $306k (+148%).
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.
100% of MAYS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $392k → $250k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MAYS 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
MAYS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 96% · 2021 92% · 2022 87% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of MAYS 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. $193 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
MAYS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MAYS 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
64% 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 MAYS 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 MAYS FOUNDATION?
- MAYS FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,591,448 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($5,366,255). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAYS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $5,591,448 in grants to MAYS FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAYS FOUNDATION?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,366,255 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAYS 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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