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Nebraska CASA Association

Lincoln, NE · EIN 47-0812726. Reported 87 grants totalling $2,801,096 to 22 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

22organizations funded
$30,179median reported grant
$2,801,096granted, 2021-2024
100%of grantees funded again the next year
11%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Nebraska CASA Association, the IRS classifies it under crime & legal rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE I72) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 22 distinct organizations, with 11% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 100% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $30,179. Half of what it reported fell between $21,066 and $37,044; the smallest was $9,093 and the largest $94,698. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
26 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
50 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
9 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
CASA for Douglas CountyOmaha, NE$321,911442024
CASA for Lancaster CountyLincoln, NE$203,345442024
Kearneybuffalo County CASAKearney, NE$167,462442024
CASA of the MidlandsFremont, NE$165,735442024
Southeast Nebraska CASASeward, NE$151,941442024
North Central CASAOneill, NE$148,028442024
CASA of South Central NebraskaHastings, NE$136,299442024
Kids Plus IncSidney, NE$123,580442024
Lincoln County CASANorth Platte, NE$119,063442024
CASA for York CountyYork, NE$115,208442024
CASA of Scotts Bluff CountyGering, NE$113,944442024
People United for FamiliesNebraska City, NE$111,725442024
Phelpsharlan County CASAHoldrege, NE$109,583442024
CASA ConnectionColumbus, NE$103,459442024
Heartland CASAGrand Island, NE$102,248442024
Lift Up Sarpy CountyBellevue, NE$102,191442024
Trails West CASA IncOgallala, NE$101,488442024
Dawsongosper County CASALexington, NE$97,502442024
CASA of Northeast Nebraska IncOneill, NE$95,777442024
Nebraska Community FoundationLincoln, NE$71,891442024
CASA of Gage CountyBeatrice, NE$70,362332024
Friends of Cass County CASA ProgramPlattsmouth, NE$68,354442024

22 of 22 (100%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 17 of 22 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Crime & Legal
7 orgs
Human Services
6 orgs
Youth Development
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202121$733,470$32,300
202222$651,046$26,014
202322$586,464$20,915
202422$830,116$33,215

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

Omaha, NE
$322K
Lincoln, NE
$275K
Oneill, NE
$244K
Kearney, NE
$167K
Fremont, NE
$166K
Seward, NE
$152K
Hastings, NE
$136K
Sidney, NE
$124K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

First Interstate Bancsystem Foundation8 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc3 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund3 shared recipientsNebraska Community Foundation3 shared recipientsRobert B Daugherty Foundation2 shared recipientsNational Court Appointed Special Advocate Association2 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $30,179 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Nebraska.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Nebraska CASA Association's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 22 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 3701 Sumner Street, Lincoln, NE, 68506.

EIN 47-0812726 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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