Nebraska · Nonprofit
MENTOR NEBRASKA
MENTOR NEBRASKA (Nebraska) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,042,489 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($725,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MENTOR NEBRASKA's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of the Midlandsshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Children's Hospital & Medical Centerportfolio match
- The Further Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 11% · 2018 8% · 2019 16% · 2021 38% · 2022 21% · 2023 35% · 2024 39% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of MENTOR NEBRASKA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $3k → $264k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 MENTOR NEBRASKA’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
MENTOR NEBRASKA 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 32% · 2020 33% · 2021 49% · 2022 31% · 2023 32% — 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
29% of MENTOR NEBRASKA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
93% of MENTOR NEBRASKA's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 21 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of the Midlandsshared funderslocalportfolio matchNE · backs 93 organizations that share your funders · funds 115 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Children's Hospital & Medical Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Further Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fundshared funderslocalNE · backs 58 organizations that share your funders · funds 56 organizations near you
- Robert B Daugherty Foundationshared funderslocalNE · backs 147 organizations that share your funders · funds 133 organizations near you
- Parker Family Foundationshared funderslocalNE · backs 56 organizations that share your funders · funds 59 organizations near you
- Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundationshared funderslocalNE · backs 87 organizations that share your funders · funds 96 organizations near you
- Richard Brooke Foundationshared fundersNE · backs 49 organizations that share your funders
- Building Healthy Futuresshared funderslocalNE · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · funds 24 organizations near you
- Collective For Youthshared funderslocalNE · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · funds 48 organizations near you
- Amy L Scott Family Foundationshared funderslocalNE · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 51 organizations near you
- Dixon Family Foundationshared funderslocalNE · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · funds 56 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like MENTOR NEBRASKA
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
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 MENTOR NEBRASKA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MENTOR NEBRASKA?
- MENTOR NEBRASKA (Nebraska) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,042,489 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($725,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MENTOR NEBRASKA have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $2,042,489 in grants to MENTOR NEBRASKA, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENTOR NEBRASKA?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $725,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENTOR NEBRASKA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing