Nebraska · Nonprofit
NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES
NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES (Nebraska) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,953,748 to it, the largest being IMMANUEL COMMUNITY VISION FOUNDATION ($919,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries does
Mission
Faith: alive!
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
"Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries (nlom) lives out its vision: "in places set apart, we live out our faith in ways that show everyone they belong and are unconditionally loved by god." its mission is simply, "faith: alive!"nlom was founded in 1975 after george and irene holling offered a half-section of land near ashland, nebraska, to establish a camp in memory of their daughter, carol joy holling. Their gift came with the challenge that the property be developed into a camp within five years. In 1979, carol joy holling camp opened and welcomed 356 youth during its first summer season.in 1995, a generous land donation from lillian and lester sullivan led to the creation of sullivan hills camp near lodgepole, nebraska, expanding nlom's ministry into western nebraska. Four years later, nlom launched a specialized outreach ministry for people with disabilities, which today serves hundreds of children and adults annually through inclusive camp and retreat experiences.today, nlom serves the greater omaha and lincoln metropolitan areas in eastern nebraska, western nebraska, eastern colorado, and wyoming through its two primary camp locations. Carol joy holling camp functions as…
$3,119,583 spent$1,337,390 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,119,583.
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 $8.7M to $11M (+26%).
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 9% · 2021 13% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Jason Gerdes
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $399k → $241k.
12 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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: $1.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries Fdn). These are real filings, and they are not money NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES raised.
From the IRS filings of NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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 LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% 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 LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 44% · 2019 31% · 2020 55% · 2021 56% · 2022 52% · 2023 37% — 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
50% of NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
80% of NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M 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.
Organizations like NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries Foundation · exempt
- Nebraska Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES?
- NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES (Nebraska) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,953,748 to it, the largest being IMMANUEL COMMUNITY VISION FOUNDATION ($919,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $3,953,748 in grants to NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES?
- IMMANUEL COMMUNITY VISION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $919,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES 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 35 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