Sandhills Strong Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920577127
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Burwell, NE, USA
- Phone
- 3082140943
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $38,432
- Expenses
- $41,520
- Assets
- $37,829
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LINDSY ROBERTS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LINDSY ROBERTS (PRESIDENT)
- BRIAN ROBERTS (VICE PRESIDE)
- BELLA GUMB (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Sandhills strong supports philanthropic organizations by connecting them to donors, companies and by organizing events to help build stronger communities in the sandhills of Nebraska
What it reported doing in 2025
Sandhills strong granted 10,000 each to jennie m. Melham memorial medical center foundation and valley county health system foundation to provide free cancer preventive screening to individuals across central Nebraska.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 81% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.8%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 90.5%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -34.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -47.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.8% of revenue deployed · 90.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $38K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.