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Nebraska · Nonprofit
NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION (Nebraska) is funded by 75 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $32,835,055 in grants to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($13,562,558). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,688 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 18%. Grants only — government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Grant income rose $685k → $1.0M on a roughly flat funder count — a concentrated base.
12 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 funders by total. Association, not causation.
NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 86% · 2019 77% · 2020 31% · 2021 23% · 2022 16% · 2023 19% · 2024 16% · 2025 60% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
55% of NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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.
NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION is locally rooted: 89% of its grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 75 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
77% of spending goes to programs.
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Part of a family of 3 related entities
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 75funders 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. view filing