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NEBRASKA COALITION FOR LIFE SAVING CURES

NEBRASKA COALITION FOR LIFE SAVING CURES (Nebraska) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $872,116 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($414,700). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$272k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$872k
Net assets
$83k
6/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 79%
01What it does

What Nebraska Coalition for Life Saving Cures does

Mission

The Nebraska Coalition for Life Saving Cures promotes, supports and advocates for research to advance our quality of life and our economy.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Communicate to the general public regarding issues surrounding medical research and local medical activities.

    $235,838 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $235,838.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($147k) Expenses 100 ($280k) Net assets 100 ($142k)2018 Revenue 172 ($253k) Expenses 92 ($259k) Net assets 96 ($136k)2019 Revenue 130 ($191k) Expenses 90 ($252k) Net assets 52 ($75k)2020 Revenue 105 ($154k) Expenses 67 ($187k) Net assets 30 ($42k)2021 Revenue 123 ($181k) Expenses 54 ($150k) Net assets 52 ($74k)2022 Revenue 92 ($136k) Expenses 60 ($168k) Net assets 29 ($42k)2023 Revenue 130 ($192k) Expenses 59 ($164k) Net assets 49 ($69k)2024 Revenue 185 ($272k) Expenses 92 ($258k) Net assets 59 ($83k)
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Revenue (185)Expenses (92)Net assets (59)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 2018 to 2019, from $144k to $75k (−48%).

$148k
$144k
$75k
$59k
$74k
$42k
$69k
$83k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 21% · 2021 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

101% of NEBRASKA COALITION FOR LIFE SAVING CURES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (79% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 882 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$133k
’17
−$6k
’18
−$62k
’19
−$32k
’20
$31k
’21
−$32k
’22
$28k
’23
$14k
’24
3.9
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.

Chief executive

Amanda Mcgill Johnson

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed2626222021192118
Joined·+1+3+2+2+1+6+3
No longer listed·1741346
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $54k → $95k.

1 of 12 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 NEBRASKA COALITION FOR LIFE SAVING CURES’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

NEBRASKA COALITION FOR LIFE SAVING CURES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

48%
largest funder
78%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 43% · 2019 40% · 2020 73% · 2021 66% · 2022 71% · 2023 47% — 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

29% of NEBRASKA COALITION FOR LIFE SAVING CURES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

99% of NEBRASKA COALITION FOR LIFE SAVING CURES's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.

NE
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26 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

NEBRASKA COALITION FOR LIFE SAVING CURES has grown faster than half of the 793 science & tech nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · below the median
Months of reserve3.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like NEBRASKA COALITION FOR LIFE SAVING CURES

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 10%Fundraising 3%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

58%

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

  • Research Nebraska Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds NEBRASKA COALITION FOR LIFE SAVING CURES?
NEBRASKA COALITION FOR LIFE SAVING CURES (Nebraska) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $872,116 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($414,700). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NEBRASKA COALITION FOR LIFE SAVING CURES have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $872,116 in grants to NEBRASKA COALITION FOR LIFE SAVING CURES, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NEBRASKA COALITION FOR LIFE SAVING CURES?
THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $414,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEBRASKA COALITION FOR LIFE SAVING CURES 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 12 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