Nebraska · Nonprofit
RELEASE INC
RELEASE INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $958,854 to it, the largest being THE HAWKS FOUNDATION ($635,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $959k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Release Inc does
Mission
To affect youth and their families with the life-changing love of jesus christ, releasing them to be all god intends them to be. Helping children and families become safe, together, healthy and free.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Foster care program - as a state-licensed child placing agency, release offers a wide variety of foster care services. Release provides initial training and ongoing support to foster familes, enabling them to provide temporary, loving homes, when children cannot remain in their family homes.
$2,137,334 spent$2,893,060 earned by the program57% of program spendingSocial work program - community-based initiatives that include family support, family preservation, family reunification, and parenting time services intended to heal, reunite, preserve, and strengthen the most vulnerable families of douglas and sarpy counties. Served 748 family members served with social work services.
$548,146 spent$383,954 earned by the program14% of program spendingMentoring program - juvenile justice mentoring equips, disciples, and supports youth through a network of professionals and volunteers who provide relational support, skills acqisition, and spiritual foundations. 109 youths mentored in a one-to-one mentoring relationships, 1,668 youths served by chaplains & mentors in institutions.
$554,158 spent$9,950 earned by the program15% of program spendingMental health - to meet the growing mental health needs of youth and their families in the omaha metro area, release offers mental health services in our offices, throughout the community, and in surrounding area schools.
$542,602 spent$107,499 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,782,240.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.0M to $2.5M (+149%).
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.
14% of RELEASE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
David Raymond
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $6k → $77k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 RELEASE 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
RELEASE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 45% · 2019 41% · 2020 45% · 2021 65% · 2022 87% · 2023 65% — 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
63% of RELEASE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
97% of RELEASE 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. $129k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
RELEASE INC has grown faster than half of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like RELEASE 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- 4815 Properties LLC · disregarded
- 4815 Properties LLC · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RELEASE 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 RELEASE INC?
- RELEASE INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $958,854 to it, the largest being THE HAWKS FOUNDATION ($635,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RELEASE INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $958,854 in grants to RELEASE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RELEASE INC?
- THE HAWKS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $635,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RELEASE 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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