Nebraska · Nonprofit
NEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION
NEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,725 to it, the largest being INVESTOR PROTECTION TRUST ($106,250). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $395k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $304k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Nebraska Council on Economic Education does
Mission
We work to advance economic and financial literacy and ensure that all K-12 students have an ongoing education in economics and personal finance. To that end, we work to enhance teachers' understanding of the subject matter so they can more effectively teach the difficult and important concepts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Teacher professional development workshops and conferences.
$64,630 spent$107,271 earned by the program18% of program spendingEconomics and Finance Challenge Academic Competitions Online academic competitions for students in both middle school and high school. The program is available nationwide.
$48,442 spent$98,250 earned by the program13% of program spendingStock Market Game A real life simulation of the stock market. Students in grades 4-12 manage a virtual $100,000 portfolio and compete for the title of state champion by earning the highest performing portfolio over 13 weeks.
$21,160 spent$24,727 earned by the program6% of program spendingAll other program expenses
$224,883 spent63% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $359,115.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $1.1M to $1.2M (+12%).
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: 2021 13% · 2022 0% · 2023 13% · 2024 16% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of NEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (76% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Kirsten Soneson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $900 → $3k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION’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 COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 81% · 2021 99% · 2022 79% · 2023 59% — 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
33% of NEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
NEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Nebraska, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 169 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 169 social science nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION?
- NEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,725 to it, the largest being INVESTOR PROTECTION TRUST ($106,250). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $303,725 in grants to NEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION?
- INVESTOR PROTECTION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $106,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION 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 2021–2025), 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