Nebraska · Nonprofit
NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC
NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,260,962 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($3,328,325). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.9M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $8.3M
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Nebraska Children's Home Society Inc does
Mission
The nebraska children's home society mission is to provide compassionate support, enduring connections, and innovative solutions that help familities thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Foster care. As a licensed child placing agency, nebraska children's home society recruits, trains and supports foster parents who open their homes to children who need specialized care. Most children in care have been abused or neglected in their biological homes and many are medically fragile or have serious health related needs. Permanency is a primary focus of the foster care program. Through a circle of care component, in-home services provide resources, support and skill building for biological parents so that children can return home if possible. When relatives are able to care for the children, support is provided to kinship homes. When adoption is the plan, foster parents or relatives are the first choice for a permanent home and professional staff work with children and relative/foster families to achieve that goal. For other children, a family finding approach identifies prospective adoptive homes and guides children and families down the road to permanency.
$5,803,995 spentof which $320,392 as grants$3,366,648 earned by the program100% of program spendingChildren and family center. The nebraska children's home children and family center (cfc) is a neighborhood based resource for families with children in an area where families face numerous challenges including poverty, low school graduation rates, violence and lack of services. With a focus on families with young children and teens, the cfc provides an array of services to improve the capacity of children to enjoy productive and fulfilling lives by strengthening, supporting and preserving families. Programs for parents focus on preparation for parenthood and provide support and skill training for parents or relatives as caretakers. Teen programs provide small group settings that focus on mentoring, coaching and teaching life skills with outcomes that include personal goal setting, positive decision making, healthy relationships and pregnancy prevention. A community garden is a healthy resource for the neighborhood.
Pregnancy, parenting and adoption. Nebraska children's home society reaches out to individuals experiencing an unplanned pregnancy and provides free, confidential support and education to assist them in developing either a parenting or adoption plan. When parenting is the plan, staff provides support, education and assistance in locating needed resources. When adoption is the plan, services focus on adoption as a life long process and provide ongoing education and support for birth parents, adoptive parents and the child. There is never any charge for pregnancy or adoption services. Post adoption services provide counseling, education and support to members of the adoption circle, as well as search services to assist adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents to establish connections with others in the adoption circle.
Early childhood centers. In recognition of the importance of the early years of child's development as a foundation for later success in school and life, the early childhood centers' focus is on developing children's cognitive, physical, social and behavioral skills. The centers provide a secure and caring environment for children while parents are at work or attend school. The evidence-based creative curriculum provides a framework for staff to nurture and promote the individual growth and learning of infants, toddlers and preschoolers with an emphasis on parental involvement.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,803,995.
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 2024 to 2025, from $7.3M to $6.2M (−15%).
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: 2020 5% · 2021 13% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Lana Temple-Plotz
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 20 funders, grant income fell $745k → $612k.
11 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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: $18M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Nebraska Children's Home Society Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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'S HOME SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 50% · 2019 44% · 2020 38% · 2021 44% · 2022 42% · 2023 48% — 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.
How long its funders stay
32% of NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
97% of NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $469k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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'S HOME SOCIETY INC receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $8.3M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Nebraska Children's Home Society Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC?
- NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,260,962 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($3,328,325). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $8,260,962 in grants to NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,328,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEBRASKA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 63 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