Nebraska · Nonprofit
OMAHA CHILDREN'S TRUST
OMAHA CHILDREN'S TRUST (Nebraska) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,788,620 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($3,500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Omaha Children's Trust does
Mission
Create a thoughtfully designed children's museum at omaha's riverfront shaped by best practices in early child development, offering fun, inclusive exhibits and programming that spark joy, curiosity, and connection for young children and their caregivers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization will expand and develop the facilities and offerings of the omaha children's museum in connection with its ongoing mission to provide educational opportunities to the public. In order to do this, the organization manages fundraising, design, and construction of the buildings. This management is performed in conjunction with the organization and heritage services, a 501c3 organization which provides fundraising and project management service to other nonprofit entities on a project-by-project basis.
$310,767 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $310,767.
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.
Board chair
Mike Lebens
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 CHILDREN'S TRUST’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 CHILDREN'S TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 CHILDREN'S TRUST.
“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.
Where its funders are
76% of OMAHA CHILDREN'S TRUST's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.1M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Nebraska funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
OMAHA CHILDREN'S TRUST is better cushioned than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like OMAHA CHILDREN'S TRUST
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
44% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OMAHA CHILDREN'S TRUST: 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 CHILDREN'S TRUST?
- OMAHA CHILDREN'S TRUST (Nebraska) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,788,620 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($3,500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OMAHA CHILDREN'S TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $4,788,620 in grants to OMAHA CHILDREN'S TRUST.
- Who is the largest funder of OMAHA CHILDREN'S TRUST?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OMAHA CHILDREN'S TRUST 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 5 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing