Nebraska · Nonprofit
NET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION
NET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION (Nebraska) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,174,103 to it, the largest being Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ($154,192). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $7.8M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $0
What Net Foundation for Television does
Mission
Support of public television
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Grants and disbursements were to and/or for the nebraska etv network, university of nebraska television dept, lincoln, ne for the purpose of program production and acquisition support for broadcast over the nebraska etv network, including distribution over the public broadcasting system.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2020 to 2021, from $25M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $196k → $43k.
7 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 NET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
NET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
51% 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 NET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 36% · 2019 27% · 2020 36% · 2021 16% · 2022 31% · 2023 62% — growing more concentrated.
“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
31% of NET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
90% of NET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $425k 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.
Organizations like NET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION
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
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Net Foundation for Radio · exempt
- University of Nebraska Television · exempt
- Nebraska Public Media Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION: 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 NET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION?
- NET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION (Nebraska) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,174,103 to it, the largest being Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ($154,192). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,174,103 in grants to NET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION?
- Lincoln Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $154,192 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 38 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