Nebraska · Nonprofit
NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION
NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,321,312 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($43,579,220). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $44M
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $95M
- Net assets
- $49M
What Nebraska Children & Families Foundation does
Mission
Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement. Our vision is a nebraska where all children will have the resources and support to reach their full potential. Our values are (1) prevention - we believe in investing early before problems start, (2) opportunity - we believe every child deserves the chance to reach their full potential, so we focus on providing opportunities to children who have the least and (3) collaboration - we believe it takes all of us to create a nebraska where all chidlren can reach their full potential.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Early childhood: develop and support a comprehensive and integrated system of early childhood care and education that provides children from vulnerable families the opportunities to establish a strong foundation for learning. Also partner with communities to implement evidence-based practices that enhance the social-emotional development of children, birth through age 8.
$16,562,108 spentof which $8,063,958 as grants42% of program spendingConnected youth communities: connected youth initiative (cyi) is an innovative, youth-led initiative that has achieved success addressing the policies affecting youth aging out of foster care. Cyi works to actively remove barriers that keep youth in foster care from achieving permanence, educational achievement, employment, housing, physical and mental health, personal and community engagement, and economic success. We're currently assisting in the development of connected youth communities and collaborations across rural nebraska to help young people with exxperience in the foster care and juvenile justice systems, struggling with homelessness, or who are disconnected from a family structure.
$4,816,808 spentof which $3,217,581 as grants12% of program spendingChild well-being communities: assist in the development of child well-being communities to make progress on child well-being indicators child well-being communites are community-owned collaborations that seek to optimize the prevention of adverse childhood experiences by activiely promoting protective factors within the community context, across the community prevention system, and through parent-child interactions.
$8,941,939 spentof which $5,495,949 as grants22% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$9,457,582 spentof which $7,590,495 as grants24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $39,778,437.
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 2019 to 2020, from $44M to $54M (+22%).
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: 2017 31% · 2018 23% · 2019 47% · 2020 42% · 2021 67% · 2022 76% · 2023 69% · 2024 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Dr Lawrence Chatters
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $5.0M → $7.8M.
8 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $964k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lincoln Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 funders by total. 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
NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 52% · 2019 51% · 2020 50% · 2021 44% · 2022 55% · 2023 43% — broadly stable.
“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 NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
94% of NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES 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. $594k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 828 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 828 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$6.6M
- Department of Education$2.2M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$6k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION?
- NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,321,312 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($43,579,220). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $95,321,312 in grants to NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $43,579,220 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 64 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