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BLUEBIRD CULTURAL INITIATIVE

EIN 81-3768917 OMAHA, NE

Revenue 2024
$495,819
Expenses 2024
$408,332

Program services were 78.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A20
Classification
2000
Street
3143 N 59TH 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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

PROVIDE MEANINGFUL PROGRAMMING TO THE COMMUNITY THAT ENRICHES THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF THE HISTORY AND CULTURAL TRADITIONS OF NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLES OF THE GREAT PLAINS. WE STRIVE TO REVITALIZE THE PAST THROUGH THE ARTS AND CULTURE IN ORDER TO ENERGIZE THE FUTURE FOR OUR YOUTH.

  • OUR TEAM ENGAGES YOUTH IN CULTURAL PROGRAMMING THAT CONNECTS THEM WITH THE NATIVE COMMUNITY AND NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE. DURING THE ACADEMIC CALENDAR YEAR, WE PROVIDE WEEKLY AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMMING FOCUSED ON CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE TRADITIONAL ARTS AND VALUES, EMPOWERMENT, LEADERSHIP, AND HOLISTIC HEALTH TO HIGH-RISK YOUTH, THEIR PEERS, AND THEIR FAMILIAL SUPPORT SYSTEMS. DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS, WE PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR CULTURAL CAMPS, WORKSHOPS, AND COMMUNITY GATHERINGS TO STRENGTHEN THEIR CULTURAL IDENTITY.

    Expenses $229,314

  • OUR TEAM WORKS WITH ORGANIZATIONS AND BUSINESSES TO DEVELOP A WORKPLACE CULTURE THAT IS CULTURALLY CONSIDERATE TO ALL POPULATIONS. GROUP TRAINING, WORKSHOPS, AND A SENSITIVITY SCAN ARE AVAILABLE FOR YOUR PROMOTIONAL ITEMS SUCH AS WEBSITES, BROCHURES, AND PRINT MEDIA.

    Expenses $92,125

  • LECTURES TO GROUPS AT SCHOOLS, MUSEUMS, AND CORPORATIONS. TOPICS INCLUDE: THE FOUR TRIBES OF NEBRASKA, TRADITIONAL NATIVE GAMES, ARTIFACT CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION, LAKOTA STAR KNOWLEDGE, WINTER COUNTS, AND OTHER TOPICS RELATED TO THE HISTORY, CULTURE, AND ART OF THE PLAINS INDIANS. TOPICS CAN BE TAILORED TO YOUR INTERESTS.

    Expenses $110

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • NICOLE BENEGAS

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $60,000
    From this org
    $60,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • STEVE TAMAYO

    Director

    Total calculated
    $45,500
    From this org
    $45,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • LEONIKA CHARGING JD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • REBECCA TAMAYO

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • MARY UMBERGER PHD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • KIRBY WILLIAMS

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • LILY GLANTZ

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • LATOYA BENALI

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • ANNE STEINHOFF

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • MAHATMA LARGAESPADA

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • JUDY HANEY

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • NATE CACY

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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
    $495,819
    Expenses
    $408,332
    Contributions
    $431,442
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $526,398
    Expenses
    $579,581
    Contributions
    $400,087
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $408,114
    Expenses
    $362,391
    Contributions
    $370,462
    Grants paid
    $0

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2021

Tax period
1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021
Principal officer
Nicole Benegas
Mailing address
3143 No 59th StOmaha NE 68104
Website
www.bluebirdculturalinitiative.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

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 13 October 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.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.