Nebraska · Nonprofit
NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL
NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL (Nebraska) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,906,818 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($405,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $177k
What Nebraska Humanities Council does
Mission
Humanities nebraska helps nebraskans explore what connects us and makes us human.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide public education programs in history and culture in nebraska communities via grants, speakers' bureau, traveling exhibits, chatauqua scholars in residence, youth programs to encourage civic participation and understanding of world issues, television and radio programs on the great plains, and family literacy programs for low-literacy, low-income families.
$2,042,798 spentof which $1,088,735 as grants$28,230 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,042,798.
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.
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 $200k to $995k (+396%).
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 41% · 2018 57% · 2019 46% · 2020 45% · 2021 44% · 2022 56% · 2023 48% · 2024 47% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
David Vail
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $92k → $194k.
5 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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: $3.8M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Nebraska Cultural Endowment). These are real filings, and they are not money NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL raised.
From the IRS filings of NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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 HUMANITIES COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
33% 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 HUMANITIES COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 39% · 2019 24% · 2020 30% · 2021 37% · 2022 30% · 2023 31% — 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
50% of NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
77% of NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $284k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.7M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$8.7M
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 HUMANITIES COUNCIL
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Foundation for The · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: 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 HUMANITIES COUNCIL?
- NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL (Nebraska) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,906,818 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($405,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $1,906,818 in grants to NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL?
- Fulk Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $405,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL 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 44 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