Nebraska · Nonprofit
METRO AREA YOUTH FOUNDATION
METRO AREA YOUTH FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $378,986 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($180,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $219k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $379k
- Net assets
- $439k
What Metro Area Youth Foundation does
Mission
To improve the quality of life for children and their families, focusing on direct financial assistance to those fighting pediatric cancer.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Family assistance. During the 2025 tax year, the organization fulfilled 538 requests for financial assistance, paying various day-to-day expenses on behalf of 122 different families as their children received cancer treatment. The goal is to lessen the burdens of unpaid bills, allowing families to focus on healing and making the most of their time together.
$199,620 spentof which $190,613 as grants98% of program spendingHope center. The organization facilities related charitable efforts conducted by hope center for the benefit of area youth.
$4,303 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $203,923.
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 2019 to 2020, from $164k to $264k (+61%).
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: 2022 47% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of METRO AREA YOUTH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $8k → $40k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 METRO AREA YOUTH 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
METRO AREA YOUTH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 METRO AREA YOUTH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 29% · 2022 80% · 2023 75% — 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
40% of METRO AREA YOUTH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
58% of METRO AREA YOUTH 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 $159k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $220k 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
METRO AREA YOUTH FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like METRO AREA YOUTH 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds METRO AREA YOUTH FOUNDATION?
- METRO AREA YOUTH FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $378,986 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($180,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does METRO AREA YOUTH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $378,986 in grants to METRO AREA YOUTH FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METRO AREA YOUTH FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METRO AREA YOUTH 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 11 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