Nebraska · Nonprofit
THE NEBRASKA LAWYERS FOUNDATION
THE NEBRASKA LAWYERS FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,288,091 to it, the largest being THRESHOLD COC ($780,713). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE NEBRASKA LAWYERS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,529 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,529 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Cooper Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Abel Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fundshared funders
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 53% · 2018 63% · 2019 45% · 2020 51% · 2021 68% · 2022 58% · 2023 33% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of THE NEBRASKA LAWYERS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $471k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $175k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Nebraska State Bar Association). These are real filings, and they are not money THE NEBRASKA LAWYERS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE NEBRASKA LAWYERS FOUNDATION’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 NEBRASKA LAWYERS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
65% 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 THE NEBRASKA LAWYERS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 95% · 2022 85% · 2023 76% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE NEBRASKA LAWYERS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k 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.
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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Cooper Foundationlocalportfolio matchNE · funds 89 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Abel Foundationlocalportfolio matchNE · funds 83 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fundshared fundersNE · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- Adams RBG Empowerment Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shoemaker Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harbor of Dreams Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Normil Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Acklie Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Unf Charitable Gift Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Friedland Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alan & Marcia Baer Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 THE NEBRASKA LAWYERS FOUNDATION
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 26 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Nebraska State Bar Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE NEBRASKA LAWYERS FOUNDATION: 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 THE NEBRASKA LAWYERS FOUNDATION?
- THE NEBRASKA LAWYERS FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,288,091 to it, the largest being THRESHOLD COC ($780,713). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE NEBRASKA LAWYERS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,288,091 in grants to THE NEBRASKA LAWYERS FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NEBRASKA LAWYERS FOUNDATION?
- THRESHOLD COC is the largest funder on record, with $780,713 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NEBRASKA LAWYERS FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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