Nebraska · Nonprofit
ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC
ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,021,167 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($1,850,266). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $54M
- Funders on record
- 76
- Grants received
- $8.0M
- Net assets
- $41M
What Orphan Grain Train Inc does
Mission
Provide christian humanitarian relief
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Volunteers throughout the u.s.a. "climb aboard" orphan grain train using their own vehicles, time and effort. Donated clean clothing and medical supplies are carefully sorted and packed in boxes at regional warehouses across america. Each year more than 200 semi-trailer loads of these supplies as well as food, blankets, tools, equipment, and bibles are shipped where most needed in america and over 100 semi-trailer loads are shipped around the world for humanitarian relief. They are distributed to churches, hospitals, orphanages, prisons, and schools.
$50,163,492 spentof which $47,372,438 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $50,163,492.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $23M to $32M (+35%).
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.
99% of ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $619k → $1.4M.
22 of 76 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 76 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
ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
81% 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 ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 59% · 2019 40% · 2020 35% · 2021 18% · 2022 30% · 2023 42% — broadly stable.
“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
49% of ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
51% of ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC'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 $3.9M that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside Nebraska, across 20 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC's revenue grew 25% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 382 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2026
Organizations like ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 21 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Ogt Logistics LLC · disregarded
- Hope for the Starving LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC?
- ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,021,167 to it, the largest being Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($1,850,266). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC have?
- IRS filings report 76 organizations giving $8,021,167 in grants to ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC?
- Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is the largest funder on record, with $1,850,266 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 76 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