Nebraska · Nonprofit
The Nebraska Medical Center
The Nebraska Medical Center (Nebraska) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,259,046 to it, the largest being UNMC Science Research Fund ($7,394,417). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8B
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $1.7B
What The Nebraska Medical Center does
Mission
The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC)'s mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Oncology Service Line Cancer treatment services offered by the corporation include treatment of lymphoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma, head and neck, breast, gastrointestinal, pancreatic, lung, genitourinary prostate, gynecologic, melanoma, brain, and spine cancers. The patients are supported by research that is conducted on the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) campus. The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC) is the only clinical cancer center in its service area designated by the national cancer institute. In addition to treatment and clinical trials, TNMC offers support groups, social work, pain management, financial counselors, survivorship groups, genetic counseling, and a variety of additional patient supportive services. In June 2017, TNMC opened the Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center. The center is jointly owned with UNMC, and it is one of the foremost cancer research and treatment facilities in the country. It is the site of inpatient hospital care, as well as outpatient and diagnostic care. UNMC's facilities, within the center, house research labs. In December 2024, TNMC opened the Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center - Kearney. While TNMC was previously serving…
$429,484,115 spentof which $111,563,153 as grants$589,719,939 earned by the program17% of program spendingNeurological Sciences Service Line The core services include precise diagnosis and treatment of stroke and vascular disease, movement and memory disorders, multiple sclerosis, brain and spinal tumors, spine as well as epilepsy. The epilepsy center is the only level four center in the region and treats patients from the State of Nebraska and surrounding region. The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC) has one of the few magnetoencephalography (MEG) scanners and trained MEG scientists in the region. The MEG can detect brain activity in much greater detail and with more accuracy than previous methods and advances patient care and research opportunities. In July 2018, TNMC opened the Twin Creek Health Center, a dedicated neurological sciences ambulatory clinic in Bellevue, NE. In June 2025, TNMC was the first in the world to use allogenic CAR T-cell therapy, typically used to treat blood cancer, to treat multiple sclerosis. This was revolutionary trial treatment that has provided positive results for the patient. TNMC has earned the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get with the Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Achievement Award. Get with the Guidelines is a…
$353,340,825 spentof which $76,753,764 as grants$405,718,407 earned by the program14% of program spendingHeart and Vascular Service Line The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC) provides a wide range of cardiovascular services from diet counseling to surgical procedures and rehabilitation to patients from the surrounding region. TNMC has grown into one of the busiest centers in the country for ventricular assist device operations. TNMC has been successful in recruiting physicians and has the only heart failure specialist in the region, and the only heart failure program certified by the joint commission in the State of Nebraska. In 2016, TNMC began a lung transplant program, and in December 2017, TNMC performed the state's first heart and lung transplant. In the year ended June 30, 2025, TNMC performed 14 lung transplants. The congestive heart failure program and acute myocardial infarction program each received the gold seal of approval certification from the American Heart Association. This program is certified by the joint commission, and these services are the only nationally certified programs of their kind in the State of Nebraska. The chest pain center has received full chest pain center accreditation from the Society of Chest Pain Centers. TNMC has been recognized for service…
$239,027,260 spentof which $56,877,123 as grants$300,651,000 earned by the program10% of program spendingFy25 with a history dating back to 1869, tnmc was formed with the merging of bishop clarkson memorial hospital and university hospital. In july 2016, unmc physicians outpatient clinics became part of the organization. Tnmc continues to attract patients from the region and around the world. Tnmc is a tertiary/quaternary academic medical center. It is the largest health care facility in the state with more than 10,000 employees and more than 1,400 physicians practicing in all major specialties and sub-specialties. In addition to key services in cardiology, oncology, transplant, and neurology, tnmc offers comprehensive care in women's services for obstetrics and gynecology, as well as pediatric services, orthopedics, rheumatology, and pulmonary care. In addition, tnmc has one of the region's largest hyperbaric medicine programs. Tnmc is the most esteemed academic health system in the region, with 809 licensed beds at its two hospitals, nebraska medical center and bellevue medical center. Nebraska medicine also operates more than 70 specialty and primary care clinics between omaha and kearney. The organization continues to strive toward its mission to lead the world in transforming…
$1,263,670,502 spentof which $148,171,871 as grants$1,140,634,619 earned by the program50% of program spendingDigestive Disease and Kidney Service Line The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC) operates one of the busiest solid organ transplant programs in the world. In 2016, TNMC joined a small number of transplant centers which have programs for transplants of all solid organs. TNMC's lung transplant program did its first transplant in February 2016. In the year ended June 30, 2025, TNMC performed 395 solid organ transplants including liver, kidney, heart, lung, pancreas, and small bowel. The success of TNMC's solid organ transplant program is heightened by research done on the TNMC/University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) campuses. Since its inception, patients have come to TNMC for single or multiple organ transplants from all fifty states and five continents.
$226,256,564 spentof which $53,495,672 as grants$282,776,736 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,511,779,266.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.5B to $2.2B (+45%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 4% · 2021 3% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of The Nebraska Medical Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
James Linder MD
Chairman & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $489k → $1.5M.
3 of 43 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Clarkson Regional Health Service Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money The Nebraska Medical Center raised.
From the IRS filings of The Nebraska Medical Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
The Nebraska Medical Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 Medical Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 30% · 2019 87% · 2020 52% · 2021 42% · 2022 57% · 2023 63% — 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.
How long its funders stay
31% of The Nebraska Medical Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
78% of The Nebraska Medical Center's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
The Nebraska Medical Center holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding The Nebraska Medical Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24.3M on record — $24.3M federal, $2k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$24.3M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$8k
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$2k
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 The Nebraska Medical Center
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Bellevue Medical Center · disregarded
- Nebraska Medicine Ventures LLC · disregarded
- Unmc Physicians · exempt
- Clarkson College · exempt
- Nebraska Medicine · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Nebraska Medical Center: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Nebraska Medical Center?
- The Nebraska Medical Center (Nebraska) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,259,046 to it, the largest being UNMC Science Research Fund ($7,394,417). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Nebraska Medical Center have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $15,259,046 in grants to The Nebraska Medical Center, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Nebraska Medical Center?
- UNMC Science Research Fund is the largest funder on record, with $7,394,417 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Nebraska Medical Center 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 43 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