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NEBRASKA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES

NEBRASKA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES (Nebraska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $969,858 to it, the largest being Nebraska Humanities Council ($969,858). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$752k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$970k
Net assets
$4.4M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%
01The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($79k) Expenses 100 ($32k) Net assets 100 ($2.2M)2018 Revenue 263 ($207k) Expenses 23 ($7k) Net assets 107 ($2.4M)2019 Revenue 119 ($93k) Expenses 24 ($8k) Net assets 118 ($2.6M)2020 Revenue 166 ($131k) Expenses 489 ($157k) Net assets 113 ($2.5M)2021 Revenue 689 ($543k) Expenses 27 ($9k) Net assets 149 ($3.3M)2022 Revenue 141 ($111k) Expenses 217 ($70k) Net assets 131 ($2.9M)2023 Revenue 165 ($130k) Expenses 28 ($9k) Net assets 137 ($3.0M)2024 Revenue 304 ($239k) Expenses 234 ($75k) Net assets 161 ($3.5M)2025 Revenue 955 ($752k) Expenses 632 ($204k) Net assets 198 ($4.4M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (955)Expenses (632)Net assets (198)

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$47k
’17
$200k
’18
$86k
’19
−$26k
’20
$534k
’21
$42k
’22
$121k
’23
$164k
’24
$549k
’25
3.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $418k → $36k.

Funder
'21
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of NEBRASKA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

100% of NEBRASKA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.

NE

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

’21
’23
Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Organizations like NEBRASKA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

22
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

63%

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 Humanities Council · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds NEBRASKA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES?
NEBRASKA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES (Nebraska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $969,858 to it, the largest being Nebraska Humanities Council ($969,858). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NEBRASKA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $969,858 in grants to NEBRASKA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NEBRASKA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES?
Nebraska Humanities Council is the largest funder on record, with $969,858 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEBRASKA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES 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 1 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing