Nebraska · Nonprofit
OUTLOOK-NEBRASKA INC
OUTLOOK-NEBRASKA INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $937,455 to it, the largest being ROBERT B DAUGHERTY FOUNDATION ($230,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $27M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $937k
- Net assets
- $28M
What Outlook-Nebraska Inc does
Mission
To positively impact everyone who is blind and visually impaired. We achieve this through employment and enrichment programs geared toward helping those we serve achieve increased personal independence and employability.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Employment programs -- outlook nebraska has built a self-sustaining business model designed to create employment for people who are visually impaired in manufacturing and administrative roles. Outlook nebraska employs people who are visually impaired throughout the organization; about 52% of our associates have impaired vision and we are the largest employer of the blind in nebraska. Outlook operates a manufacturing facility that produces toilet tissue and paper towels. More than 75% of the workforce engaged in the production of these products is legally blind, qualifying our products for mandatory preferential status for federal government purchase. The employment programs comprise most of the revenue and operating expenses in our financials, primarily driven by the cost of the raw material.
$22,087,766 spent$26,966,411 earned by the program100% of program spendingEnrichment programs assist member of our community who are dealing with vision loss to learn new ways to overcome their challenges, acquire new skills, gain additional confidence in their capabilities, and experience greater personal independence. The programs also help the public to better understand the needs of the visually impaired creating a more inclusive community. Outlook offers a continuum of donor-funded programs within these core functional themes: individual training on adaptive technology to help the blind use computers, smartphones and tablets, magnification and braille devices; recreational activities supported by adaptive sports specialist; participate in art and craft activities; and educational events to help our community members better understand the capabilities of our blind neighbors.
$39,925 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,127,691.
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 $22M to $33M (+48%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of OUTLOOK-NEBRASKA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Eric Stueckrath
President & CEO
Board chair
Steven Knapp
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $309k → $69.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 OUTLOOK-NEBRASKA INC’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
OUTLOOK-NEBRASKA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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: 2017 74% · 2018 45% · 2019 50% · 2020 73% · 2021 69% · 2022 73% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
20% of OUTLOOK-NEBRASKA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
54% of OUTLOOK-NEBRASKA INC's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
OUTLOOK-NEBRASKA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 441 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 441 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding OUTLOOK-NEBRASKA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22.1M on record.
- Department of Justice$20.6M
- Department of Defense$1.1M
- Department of Homeland Security$337k
- Department of the Interior$18k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$10k
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 OUTLOOK-NEBRASKA 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Outlook Properties LLC · disregarded
- Outlook Collaborative · exempt
- Outlook Enrichment · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OUTLOOK-NEBRASKA INC: 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 OUTLOOK-NEBRASKA INC?
- OUTLOOK-NEBRASKA INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $937,455 to it, the largest being ROBERT B DAUGHERTY FOUNDATION ($230,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OUTLOOK-NEBRASKA INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $937,455 in grants to OUTLOOK-NEBRASKA INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OUTLOOK-NEBRASKA INC?
- ROBERT B DAUGHERTY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $230,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OUTLOOK-NEBRASKA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 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