Nebraska · Nonprofit
STEPHEN CENTER INC
STEPHEN CENTER INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,237,300 to it, the largest being CHARLES E LAKIN FOUNDATION INC ($2,521,867). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Stephen Center Inc does
Mission
Stephen center partners with individuals, families and the community to overcome homelessness, substance abuse and mental health concerns.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency shelter: pettigrew emergency shelter is a substance-free facility featuring a men's dorm, women's dorm, and family shelter units. Meals are available to residents three times per day, seven days per week. Within 72 hours of arrival, every shelter client is required to meet with a case manager to develop a plan for success to overcome barriers and emerge from homelessness.
$1,689,157 spent$38,664 earned by the program36% of program spendingSubstance abuse treatment: stephen center's hero program provides substance abuse and mental health treatment for low-income and homeless individuals. Multiple levels of care include, long term residential care, short term residential care, non-residential intensive outpatient treatment, non-residential outpatient treatment, and substance abuse and mental health evaluations.
$1,935,174 spent$2,224,990 earned by the program41% of program spendingPermanent supportive housing: permanent supportive housing apartments provide housing and supportive services to individuals and families moving from homelessness to independent, supportive living. Apartments comply with hud housing quality standards. There are 61 psh units for rent to those who meet income and disability standards, including 40 single room occupancy units, 15 one-bedroom, 4 two-bedroom, and 2 three-bedroom units.
$1,133,036 spent$261,945 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,757,367.
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 2020 to 2021, from $11M to $13M (+19%).
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: 2017 8% · 2018 7% · 2019 9% · 2020 17% · 2021 5% · 2022 6% · 2023 6% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of STEPHEN CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $465k → $781k.
8 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 STEPHEN CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
STEPHEN CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% 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
27% 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 STEPHEN CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 36% · 2019 88% · 2020 20% · 2021 42% · 2022 15% · 2023 17% — diversifying over time.
“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
57% of STEPHEN CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
60% of STEPHEN CENTER 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. $615k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
STEPHEN CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding STEPHEN CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $328k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$328k
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 STEPHEN CENTER 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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
- 5217 South 28th Street LLC · disregarded
- 2723 Q Street LLC · partnership
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STEPHEN CENTER 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 STEPHEN CENTER INC?
- STEPHEN CENTER INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,237,300 to it, the largest being CHARLES E LAKIN FOUNDATION INC ($2,521,867). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STEPHEN CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $7,237,300 in grants to STEPHEN CENTER INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEPHEN CENTER INC?
- CHARLES E LAKIN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,521,867 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEPHEN CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 55 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