Nebraska · Nonprofit
THE HOUSE OF AFROS CAPES & CURLS INC
THE HOUSE OF AFROS CAPES & CURLS INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $570,861 to it, the largest being WEITZ FAMILY FOUNDATION ($251,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $142k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $571k
- Net assets
- $69k
What The House of Afros Capes & Curls Inc does
Mission
Connect people from diverse backgrounds and builds a community based on a shared love of science fiction, fantasy, gaming, and afrofuturism while providing a safe space to explore the artistic literary, and historic merits of geek culture.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Afrocon is an extraordinary, family friendly event that blends the magic of black culture and nerd culture with a day of immersive entertainment and enriching activities.
$45,406 spent40% of program spendingProvide a safe space to bring our community together through game nights and community partnerships. We do this through monthly game nights, a community livestream on youtube, book club, and partnerships with other community organizations.
$41,347 spent36% of program spendingYouth steam program that focuses on research and a redlining project of 30 students. The house community school focuses on adult learning and conversations around the 1619 project book and serves 10 students.
$27,520 spent24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $114,273.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $43k to $97k (+126%).
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.
100% of THE HOUSE OF AFROS CAPES & CURLS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $140k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 THE HOUSE OF AFROS CAPES & CURLS 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
THE HOUSE OF AFROS CAPES & CURLS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 46% · 2022 64% · 2023 54% — 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
80% of THE HOUSE OF AFROS CAPES & CURLS INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 63% 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
100% of THE HOUSE OF AFROS CAPES & CURLS 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. $61 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE HOUSE OF AFROS CAPES & CURLS INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE HOUSE OF AFROS CAPES & CURLS 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.
Public support
41%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF AFROS CAPES & CURLS INC?
- THE HOUSE OF AFROS CAPES & CURLS INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $570,861 to it, the largest being WEITZ FAMILY FOUNDATION ($251,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE HOUSE OF AFROS CAPES & CURLS INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $570,861 in grants to THE HOUSE OF AFROS CAPES & CURLS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HOUSE OF AFROS CAPES & CURLS INC?
- WEITZ FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $251,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HOUSE OF AFROS CAPES & CURLS 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 8 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