Special Olympics Nebraska Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470546346
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Omaha, NE, USA
- Phone
- 4023315545
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,433,053
- Expenses
- $3,402,265
- Assets
- $8,049,999
- Liabilities
- $1,654,662
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CAROLYN CHAMBERLIN (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CAROLYN CHAMBERLIN (PRESIDENT/CEO): $213,627 total reported compensation
- NATHANIEL PARKS (VP OF PROGRAM): $106,296 total reported compensation
- STEPHANIE GUIDO (CFO): $92,899 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other special olympics athletes and the community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Health - the vision for special olympics' health program is to create a world where people with and with out intellectual disabilities have the same opportunities to be healthy. To achieve this vision it is necessary to address the barriers, including lack of access to quality health care, education and resources. To achieve equal access to quality health care for people with id, changes must occur. Those changes impact individuals, families, providers, communities, governing bodies, and other stakeholders who influence health and wellness. Special olympics aims to create a tipping point for inclusive health whereby inclusion of those with id becomes integrated into mainstream health policies, programming and services, training programs and funding streams.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.6%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 76%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.83 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.9%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.37; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.1%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.6% of revenue deployed · 76% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $214K · 25 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.