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EIN 26-1545078 OMAHA, NE

Revenue 2023
$4,442,953
Expenses 2023
$5,126,702

Program services were 74.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
1000
Street
2121 N 117TH AVE

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).

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • KATIE WEITZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • JEFF SCHMID

    DIRECTOR (RESIGNED IN SEPT 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • CALVIN SISSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • KEN BIRD

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $547,984
    From this org
    $474,722
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $73,262
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $394,722
    Bonus
    $80,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $45,540
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,722
    Filer's total
    $547,984

  • SUSIE BUFFETT

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • MICHAEL ALVANO

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $310,556
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $250,776
    Other
    $59,780
    Hours/week
    4 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $227,776 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $23,000 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $27,405 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $32,375 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $310,556 related

  • LINDSAY DECKER

    PRESIDENT/COO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • LISA STERBA

    DIRECTOR OF CAREER PROGRAMS AND BUSINESS OUTREACH

    Total calculated
    $178,343
    From this org
    $137,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $40,543
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $126,300
    Bonus
    $11,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $10,979
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,564
    Filer's total
    $178,343

  • KRISTOPHER VALENTINE

    SR DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES

    Total calculated
    $164,974
    From this org
    $126,581
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $38,393
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $110,581
    Bonus
    $16,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,765
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,628
    Filer's total
    $164,974

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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,442,953
    Expenses
    $5,126,702
    Contributions
    $4,275,260
    Grants paid
    $76,075
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,049,542
    Expenses
    $4,996,166
    Contributions
    $4,884,220
    Grants paid
    $43,691

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.

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

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.

Declared on its 2023 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.