Nebraska · Nonprofit
NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION
NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,265,205 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($13,562,558). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,925 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,925 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of the Midlandsshared funderslocal
- Friedland Family Foundationportfolio match
- William C Schmoker Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2019 2% · 2020 9% · 2021 4% · 2022 5% · 2023 2% · 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 (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $768k → $4.6M.
12 of 82 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 82 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
NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 60%; 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 26% · 2018 86% · 2019 77% · 2020 31% · 2021 23% · 2022 16% · 2023 19% — 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
62% of NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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 NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
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 82 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of the Midlandsshared funderslocalNE · backs 96 organizations that share your funders · funds 115 organizations near you
- Friedland Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William C Schmoker Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Webster Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fundshared funderslocalNE · backs 58 organizations that share your funders · funds 56 organizations near you
- Weitz Family Foundationshared funderslocalNE · backs 147 organizations that share your funders · funds 203 organizations near you
- Collective For Youthshared funderslocalNE · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · funds 48 organizations near you
- Kim Foundationshared fundersNE · backs 33 organizations that share your funders
- Building Healthy Futuresshared funderslocalNE · backs 22 organizations that share your funders · funds 24 organizations near you
- The Enrichment Foundationshared funderslocalNE · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 39 organizations near you
- Threshold Cocshared fundersNE · backs 20 organizations that share your funders
- The Nebraska Medical Centershared funderslocalNE · backs 54 organizations that share your funders · funds 65 organizations near you
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.
Organizations like NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION
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.
In Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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
- High Ropes Challenge LLC · disregarded
- North 48th LLC · disregarded
- Outward Bound Omaha LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION?
- NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,265,205 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($13,562,558). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $34,265,205 in grants to NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13,562,558 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 82funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing