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OMAHA BY DESIGN

OMAHA BY DESIGN (Nebraska) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,229,991 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($1,175,055). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$3.2M
Net assets
$654k
10/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 76%
01What it does

What Omaha by Design does

Mission

The purpose of the organization is to enhance omaha's economic development potential by improving the quality of its physical environment and how the places we live, work, learn, shop, worship, exercise and play connect to one another.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The purpose of the organization is to enhance omaha's economic development potential by improving the quality of its physical environment and how the places we live, work, learn, shop, worship, exercise and play connect to one another.

    $953,569 spent$14,850 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $953,569.

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 100 ($684k) Expenses 100 ($624k) Net assets 100 ($169k)2018 Revenue 57 ($387k) Expenses 65 ($406k) Net assets 89 ($150k)2019 Revenue 61 ($416k) Expenses 59 ($367k) Net assets 118 ($199k)2020 Revenue 55 ($375k) Expenses 59 ($367k) Net assets 123 ($208k)2021 Revenue 71 ($488k) Expenses 61 ($381k) Net assets 186 ($315k)2022 Revenue 86 ($585k) Expenses 101 ($629k) Net assets 160 ($270k)2023 Revenue 175 ($1.2M) Expenses 176 ($1.1M) Net assets 216 ($366k)2024 Revenue 183 ($1.3M) Expenses 155 ($964k) Net assets 386 ($654k)
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Revenue (183)Expenses (155)Net assets (386)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 2023 to 2024, from $369k to $660k (+79%).

$169k
$150k
$199k
$252k
$317k
$271k
$369k
$660k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

82% of OMAHA BY DESIGN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$60k
’17
−$19k
’18
$49k
’19
$9k
’20
$107k
’21
−$44k
’22
$96k
’23
$288k
’24
8.2
months of
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.

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Listed1010121110141414
Joined·+1+2+0+1+4+0+1
No longer listed·1012001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $48k → $854k.

4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 OMAHA BY DESIGN’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

OMAHA BY DESIGN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

33% 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 OMAHA BY DESIGN.

36%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 71% · 2019 43% · 2020 50% · 2021 47% · 2022 30% · 2023 36% — 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

33% of OMAHA BY DESIGN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

88% of OMAHA BY DESIGN's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.

IA
NE
DC

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

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’23
Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $439k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OMAHA BY DESIGN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding OMAHA BY DESIGN receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.

Federal$20k
grants $20kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$20k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like OMAHA BY DESIGN

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

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 19%Fundraising 11%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

37%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OMAHA BY DESIGN: 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 OMAHA BY DESIGN?
OMAHA BY DESIGN (Nebraska) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,229,991 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($1,175,055). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OMAHA BY DESIGN have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $3,229,991 in grants to OMAHA BY DESIGN, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OMAHA BY DESIGN?
THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,175,055 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OMAHA BY DESIGN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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