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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 529 organizations whose IRS filings report $802,133,900 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($174,229,822). 347 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$479M
Revenue FY2025
529
Funders on record
$802M
Grants received
$3.3B
Net assets
347/529 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%

Against its field

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 671 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 671 education nonprofits over $100M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($282M) Expenses 100 ($233M) Net assets 100 ($1.9B)2018 Revenue 108 ($305M) Expenses 95 ($222M) Net assets 106 ($2.1B)2019 Revenue 122 ($344M) Expenses 109 ($254M) Net assets 110 ($2.1B)2020 Revenue 129 ($365M) Expenses 92 ($214M) Net assets 114 ($2.2B)2021 Revenue 152 ($428M) Expenses 121 ($282M) Net assets 144 ($2.8B)2022 Revenue 202 ($570M) Expenses 111 ($259M) Net assets 135 ($2.6B)2023 Revenue 147 ($413M) Expenses 145 ($339M) Net assets 143 ($2.8B)2024 Revenue 125 ($353M) Expenses 148 ($345M) Net assets 159 ($3.1B)2025 Revenue 170 ($479M) Expenses 158 ($367M) Net assets 172 ($3.3B)
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Revenue (170)Expenses (158)Net assets (172)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

65% of UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 729 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$49M
17
$84M
18
$90M
19
$151M
20
$146M
21
$311M
22
$74M
23
$7.0M
24
$112M
25
7.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 164 funders to 265 funders, grant income rose $50M → $137M.

76 of 529 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)9% 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: $1.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest University of Nebraska at Omaha Alumni Association). These are real filings, and they are not money UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 529 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

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left

25% 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION.

22%
largest funder
34%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 11% · 2018 16% · 2019 18% · 2020 15% · 2021 39% · 2022 25% · 2023 21%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

55% of UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

85% of UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $74M arriving through sponsors registered in 31 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 529 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA 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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 11%Fundraising 8%

Governance

18
board members
89%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

78%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 11 states

NH
MN
MI
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CA
KY
MD
SC

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Unf Investments LLC · disregarded
  • Stumpf Peterson Pogue LLC · disregarded
  • Unf Charitable Gift Fund · exempt
  • University of Nebraska at Omaha Alumni Association · exempt
  • Charitable Remainder Trusts (56) · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA 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.

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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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION?
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 529 organizations whose IRS filings report $802,133,900 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($174,229,822). 347 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 529 organizations giving $802,133,900 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION, 347 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION?
THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $174,229,822 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 529funders 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