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MILFORD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION

MILFORD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,932 to it, the largest being Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ($130,056). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$389k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$189k
Net assets
$3.6M
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Milford Schools Foundation does

Mission

Provide scholarships to graduates of milford public schools as well as provide enhanced educational opportunities for current students.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide scholarships to graduating seniors of milford public schools as well as provide enhanced educational opportunities for current students.

    $110,820 spentof which $65,100 as grants$121,236 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $110,820.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($127k) Expenses 100 ($172k) Net assets 100 ($2.5M)2019 Revenue 374 ($477k) Expenses 56 ($97k) Net assets 115 ($2.9M)2020 Revenue 240 ($306k) Expenses 59 ($102k) Net assets 123 ($3.1M)2021 Revenue 401 ($511k) Expenses 62 ($107k) Net assets 139 ($3.5M)2022 Revenue 111 ($141k) Expenses 246 ($424k) Net assets 128 ($3.2M)2023 Revenue 226 ($288k) Expenses 98 ($170k) Net assets 133 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 305 ($389k) Expenses 64 ($111k) Net assets 144 ($3.6M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (305)Expenses (64)Net assets (144)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.1M to $3.5M (+13%).

$2.5M
$2.9M
$3.1M
$3.5M
$3.2M
$3.4M
$3.6M
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

26% of MILFORD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$45k
’18
$380k
’19
$204k
’20
$404k
’21
−$283k
’22
$118k
’23
$278k
’24
84
months of
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.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed7775678
Joined·+0+0+0+1+1+1
No longer listed·002000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $24k → $15k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
2
2
2
1
2
2
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MILFORD SCHOOLS 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

MILFORD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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

100% 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 MILFORD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION.

69%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 62% · 2019 63% · 2020 100% · 2021 54% · 2022 61% · 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 MILFORD SCHOOLS 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $189k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MILFORD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin72% · top quartile
Months of reserve84.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like MILFORD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

34%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds MILFORD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
MILFORD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,932 to it, the largest being Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ($130,056). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MILFORD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $188,932 in grants to MILFORD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MILFORD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
Lincoln Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $130,056 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MILFORD SCHOOLS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 2 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