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Nebraska Medicine

Nebraska Medicine (Nebraska) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,520,518 to it, the largest being UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ($19,933,667). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$283M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$22M
Net assets
$1.7B
2/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Nebraska Medicine does

Mission

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and committees through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Nebraska Medicine serves as an integral and essential part of a nonprofit integrated health care clinical enterprise, coordinating the functions of Clarkson Regional Health Services (CRHS) and the Board of Regents, both Section 501(c)(3) public charities, to achieve the efficient and effective delivery of health care services to the public, and to support medical education and research.

    $0 spent$282,660,461 earned by the program

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $0.

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 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($0)2018 Revenue 100 ($77M) Net assets 100 ($884M)2019 Revenue 79 ($60M) Net assets 109 ($964M)2020 Revenue 89 ($68M) Net assets 116 ($1.0B)2021 Revenue 250 ($192M) Net assets 136 ($1.2B)2022 Revenue 57 ($43M) Net assets 139 ($1.2B)2023 Revenue 82 ($63M) Net assets 144 ($1.3B)2024 Revenue 185 ($141M) Net assets 161 ($1.4B)2025 Revenue 369 ($283M) Net assets 196 ($1.7B)
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Revenue (369)Net assets (196)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 2024 to 2025, from $1.4B to $1.7B (+22%).

$0
$884M
$964M
$1.0B
$1.2B
$1.2B
$1.3B
$1.4B
$1.7B
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of Nebraska Medicine’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,211 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$0
’17
$77M
’18
$60M
’19
$68M
’20
$192M
’21
$43M
’22
$63M
’23
$141M
’24
$283M
’25

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

James Linder MD

Chairman & CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20182019202020242025
Listed1515151212
Joined·+2+1·+1
No longer listed·21·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $83k → $906k.

1 of 10 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.

Left out of every figure on this page: $14M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Clarkson Regional Health Service Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Nebraska Medicine raised.

From the IRS filings of Nebraska Medicine’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 Medicine leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% 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 Medicine.

93%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 88% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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

25% of Nebraska Medicine's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 20% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 Medicine's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.

NY
PA
CA
NE

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $180 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 Medicine has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,241 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin100% · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Organizations like Nebraska Medicine

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

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 8 related entities

  • The Nebraska Medical Center · exempt
  • Clarkson College · exempt
  • UNMC Physicians · exempt
  • Clarkson Regional Health Services Inc · exempt
  • Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Nebraska Medicine: 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 Medicine?
Nebraska Medicine (Nebraska) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,520,518 to it, the largest being UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ($19,933,667). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Nebraska Medicine have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $21,520,518 in grants to Nebraska Medicine, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Nebraska Medicine?
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $19,933,667 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Nebraska Medicine 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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