CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1700

Street

2241 O ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Group exemption

A subordinate covered by the group exemption of UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE (EIN 53-0196617). matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

Mission and programs · 2024

• FOOD, CLOTHING, AND MATERIAL ASSISTANCE - SERVING THE MOST BASIC NEEDS - FOOD, CLOTHING, AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS - THAT IS OUR GOAL. ON SITE SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE IN LINCOLN, AUBURN, IMPERIAL AND HASTINGS NEBRASKA. SERVICES OFFERED INCLUDE FOOD PANTRIES, BUDGET COUNSELING, SOCIAL SERVICE REFERRALS, AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR PAYMENTS OF RENT, UTILITIES, DEPOSITS, VEHICLE REPAIRS, MEDICAL BILLS, AND OTHER NECESSITIES. OUR ST. FRANCIS FOOD PANTRY IN LINCOLN IS THE SECOND LARGEST PANTRY IN THE CITY. THE HASTINGS AND LINCOLN OFFICES SUPPLEMENT THEIR OFFERINGS OF FOOD THROUGH A BROWN BAG LUNCH PROGRAM GIVEN TO THOSE NEEDING PREPARED FOOD IN THE HASTINGS AND LINCOLN AREAS.

  Expenses $2,743,184 · Grants $1,768,542 · Revenue $433,002

• GIFT AND THRIFT - MATERIAL RELIEF THROUGH OUR GIFT AND THRIFT STORES IN LINCOLN, HASTINGS, IMPERIAL, AND AUBURN NEBRASKA. THE STORES SELL CLOTHING, HOUSEHOLD ITEMS, FURNITURE, AND APPLIANCES AT REASONABLE PRICES. WE CALL OUR THRIFT STORE ACTIVITY, "GIVING SQUARED; A DONOR PROVIDES CSS WITH AN IN-KIND GIFT, WHICH WE CAN PROVIDE TO A NEEDY FAMILY AT BELOW MARKET PRICES AND ANY CASH PROFITS EARNED ARE GIVEN AWAY AGAIN THROUGH OUR ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS. THE 'GIFT' PORTION OF THE STORES IS MANAGED THROUGH OUR VOUCHER PROGRAM. OUR CASE WORKERS IDENTIFY FAMILIES WHO WOULD BENEFIT FROM AN IN-KIND ITEM AND OFFER THEM A VOUCHER TO THE GIFT AND THRIFT STORE. THE FAMILY CAN THEN SHOP IN OUR CLEAN, ORGANIZED, WELL-LIGHTED STORES ALONG WITH OTHER CUSTOMERS, THUS RESPECTING THEIR DIGNITY. THE VOUCHER CAN BE USED TO OFFSET OR ELIMINATE THE COST OF THE ITEM.

  Expenses $1,597,200 · Grants $120

• REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT - WITH THE EUROPEANS LEFT HOMELESS BY WORLD WAR II AND CUBANS FLEEING COMMUNISM IN THE 1960'S, THE DIOCESE OF LINCOLN HAS BEEN WELCOMING REFUGEES IN THE NAME OF CHRIST FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY. TODAY, REFUGEES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD FLEEING PERSECUTION, POVERTY, AND WAR BEGIN NEW LIVES IN SOUTHERN NEBRASKA WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF CSS. RESETTLEMENT SERVICES INCLUDE SECURING HOUSING, CULTURAL ORIENTATION, FOOD, MEDICAL, AND DENTAL SERVICES, AND JOB PLACEMENT. ALL REFUGEE SERVICES ARE DESIGNED TO ASSIST THE FAMILIES TO ACHIEVE SELF-SUFFICIENCY AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE DATE.

  Expenses $1,210,735 · Grants $156,346

• EVANGELIZATION - TWO IMPORTANT WORKS OF MERCY ARE VISITING THE SICK AND IMPRISONED. CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES CONDUCTS PROGRAMS IN EACH OF THESE AREAS. INDIVIDUALS INCARCERATED IN PRISONS LOCATED IN OUR DIOCESE ARE SUPPORTED AND ASSISTED SPIRITUALLY BY A FULL-TIME CATHOLIC PASTOR. OUR AGENCY ALSO SUPPORTS THE ACTIVITIES OF THE APOSTOLATE OF SUFFERING, WHICH PRODUCES PUBLICATIONS DESIGNED TO SUPPORT AND ASSIST THOSE WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM CHRONIC OR TERMINAL ILLNESSES. AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF OUR PUBLICATIONS SENT TO HOMES THROUGHOUT THE DIOCESE IS TO INSTRUCT AND ENCOURAGE FAMILIES TO LIVE AND STRENGTHEN THEIR CATHOLIC FAITH. HOLY CARDS, ROSARIES, AND TOOLS TO ASSIST FAMILIES IN THEIR SPIRITUAL GROWTH ARE ALSO OFFERED AT MOST OF OUR AGENCY'S FUNCTIONS.

  Expenses $64,200

• HOUSING - HOUSING SERVICES ARE PROVIDED THROUGH OUR ST. GIANNA WOMEN'S HOMES PROGRAM IN LINCOLN AND HASTINGS, NEBRASKA. SAFE, SECURE HOUSING AND UTILITY ASSISTANCE ARE PROVIDED TO FAMILIES AND THEIR CHILDREN FLEEING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. SCATTERED SITE HOUSING AND CASE-MANAGED APARTMENTS ARE PROVIDED TO 32 FAMILIES AT ANY ONE TIME.

  Expenses $381,174 · Grants $69,757

• CHILDCARE

  Expenses $218,459

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $6,679,054

  Expenses

  $7,138,854

  Contributions

  $6,269,938

  Grants paid

  $1,994,765

• 2023

  Revenue

  $7,657,101

  Expenses

  $9,200,276

  Contributions

  $7,531,138

  Grants paid

  $2,712,534

• 2022

  Revenue

  $8,655,735

  Expenses

  $10,281,728

  Contributions

  $7,817,793

  Grants paid

  $2,359,832

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,507,775

  Expenses

  $7,233,163

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,810,609

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,899,813

  Expenses

  $5,909,122

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,526,518

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,568,585

  Expenses

  $5,529,730

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,827,317

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,957,777

  Expenses

  $5,842,956

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,336,773

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,137,087

  Expenses

  $5,008,055

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,310,528

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $103,333

  2022 · RELIGION

• UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY

  $100,180

  2022 · DONOR DESIGNATED FOR GENERAL SUPPORT

• UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY

  $100,138

  2023 · DONOR DESIGNATED FOR GENERAL SUPPORT

• UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY

  $91,634

  2024 · DONOR DESIGNATED FOR GENERAL SUPPORT

• LINCOLN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $84,264

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY

  $63,342

  2022 · COMMUNITY COLLABORATION - LINCOLN RESETTLEMENT FUND

• UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY

  $61,700

  2024 · PROGRAM OPERATING COST

• UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY

  $61,700

  2022 · PROGRAM OPERATING COST

• UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY

  $61,700

  2023 · PROGRAM OPERATING COST

• UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INC

  $50,000

  2022 · HELP SUPPORT PROGRAM

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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