Nebraska · Nonprofit
OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST
OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST (Nebraska) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,521,669 to it, the largest being Peter Kiewit Foundation ($21,151,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST is better cushioned than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio match
- Association of Children's Museums Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
48% of OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $11M → $14M.
9 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 DISCOVERY TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 90% · 2021 40% · 2022 36% · 2023 40% — 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
50% of OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
96% of OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 44 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of the Midlandsshared funderslocalNE · backs 91 organizations that share your funders · funds 115 organizations near you
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Children's Museums Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mr Metzger Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Museum of Scienceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David B Jones Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Coby Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Terra Foundation for American Artportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Art Alliance for Contemporary Glassportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Akiyama Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Studio in a School Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OMAHA DISCOVERY 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.
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 OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST?
- OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST (Nebraska) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,521,669 to it, the largest being Peter Kiewit Foundation ($21,151,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $65,521,669 in grants to OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST?
- Peter Kiewit Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $21,151,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OMAHA DISCOVERY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 44funders 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