Nebraska · Nonprofit
OPEN SHELF COMMUNITY INITIATIVES
OPEN SHELF COMMUNITY INITIATIVES (Nebraska) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,257 to it, the largest being Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ($17,257). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $134k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $132k
What Open Shelf Community Initiatives does
Mission
ConnectioN Point is a community center where all are welcome, all belong and all serve one another. We are located in an old Methodist church in the Clinton Neighborhood of Lincoln, NE and have been in existence as a nonprofit since 2015. Our building hosts a lot of community programs and groups and the goal of all of them is for those in the community to offer hospitality to one another and to see God in our community and one another. OpeN Shelf has been a staple for years in the outreach ministry of ConnectioN Point. At Open Shelf (Connection Point's food pantry), we hope to remind people just how much worth they have, even if they feel like life has knocked them down. We hope our pantry provides more than just food, we hope it provides real community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
OpeN Shelf Ministry
$3,669 spent6% of program spendingConnectioN Point Ministry
$58,757 spentof which $45,000 as grants94% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $62,426.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $0.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 OPEN SHELF COMMUNITY INITIATIVES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.
Where its funders are
100% of OPEN SHELF COMMUNITY INITIATIVES'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
OPEN SHELF COMMUNITY INITIATIVES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPEN SHELF COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: 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 OPEN SHELF COMMUNITY INITIATIVES?
- OPEN SHELF COMMUNITY INITIATIVES (Nebraska) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,257 to it, the largest being Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ($17,257). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OPEN SHELF COMMUNITY INITIATIVES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $17,257 in grants to OPEN SHELF COMMUNITY INITIATIVES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPEN SHELF COMMUNITY INITIATIVES?
- Lincoln Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $17,257 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPEN SHELF COMMUNITY INITIATIVES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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