Nebraska · Nonprofit
SANDHILLS AREA FOUNDATION INC
SANDHILLS AREA FOUNDATION INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,533 to it, the largest being NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $609k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Sandhills Area Foundation Inc does
Mission
Community development & educational grants
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational grants to local graduating high school seniors and non-traditional students.
$46,590 spent40% of program spendingCommunity assistance grants: thedford volunteer rescue 5,000 valentine children & family coalition 5,000 valentine wrestling club 14,200 cherry co 4h 500 cody cowboy grit 15,300 cherry co ag society 300 cody fire department 1,000 valentine public library 10,000 valentine friends of library 1,000 valentine theater 50,000 sparks cemetery 2,000 vetal fire department 250 kilgore fire department 100
$46,012 spent39% of program spendingGeneral expenses of scholarship and community grants.
$23,934 spent21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $116,536.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.6M to $2.1M (+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.
56% of SANDHILLS AREA FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $19k → $33.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 SANDHILLS AREA FOUNDATION 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
SANDHILLS AREA FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 SANDHILLS AREA FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 74% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
85% of SANDHILLS AREA FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SANDHILLS AREA FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SANDHILLS AREA FOUNDATION 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 SANDHILLS AREA FOUNDATION 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 SANDHILLS AREA FOUNDATION INC?
- SANDHILLS AREA FOUNDATION INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,533 to it, the largest being NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANDHILLS AREA FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $31,533 in grants to SANDHILLS AREA FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANDHILLS AREA FOUNDATION INC?
- NEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANDHILLS AREA FOUNDATION 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 4 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