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Cynthia a Niekamp Foundation at a glance

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Cynthia a Niekamp Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
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02The needRead
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Youth Development$60kCrime & Legal$40kHealth$20kHuman Services$20kReligion$10k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$918k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN DETROIT$20,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN CHICAGO$15,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN TWIN CITIES$15,000
NAT ALLIANCE ON MENTAL HEALTH$10,000
IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESEARCH CTR$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESEARCH CTR: $10k → 10%TRIPS FOR KIDS CHARLOTTE: $10k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN CHICAGO: $15k → 14%THE CRADLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
CA
VA
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Friends of the Children - Philadelphia

Friends of the children philadelphia has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Education
2
Friends of the Children-Portland

Friends - portland commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…

Youth Development
3
Fotc - Los Angeles

Friends of the children commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…

Education
4
Friends of the Children - Seattle

Friends of the children - seattle has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. youth in the friends…

Youth Development
5
Friends of the Children- New York

Friends of the children - new york has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Crime & Legal
6
Friends of the Children

Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with paid professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what.

Youth Development
7
Friends of the Children - Austin

Friends of the children - austin is a texas based nonprofit with the mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years,no matter…

Youth Development
8
Friends of the Children Tacoma

Friends of the children - tacoma is a washington based nonprofit with the mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no…

Youth Development
9
Friends of the Children - San Francisco Bay Area

Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.

Education
10
Friends of the Children - Phoenix

Friends of the children - phoenix has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with profesional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 83% of our youth receive…

Youth Development
11
Friends of the Children - Utah

Friends of the children utah has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Youth Development
12
Friends of the Children- Tampa Bay Inc

Friends of the children tampa bay has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Children - Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Trips for Kids Charlotte. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - DETROIT: $20,000 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - DETROITEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND…HAVEN INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalHAVEN INCFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $15,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGOThe Cradle Foundation: $10,000 · Human ServicesThe Cradle FoundationIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTERTRIPS FOR KIDS CHARLOTTE: $10,000 · Human ServicesTRIPS FOR KIDS CHARLOTTEFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TWIN CITIES: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHI…BRAVEN INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRAVEN INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 · HealthREFUGEEONE: $10,000 · ReligionNAT ALLIANCE ON MENTAL HEALTH: $10,000 · Other
Crime & Legal$50,000Human Services$45,000Youth Development$25,000Health$10,000Religion$10,000Other$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - DETROIT: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TWIN CITIES: $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CHICAGO: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cradle Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRAVEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIPS FOR KIDS CHARLOTTE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAVEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cynthia a Niekamp Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cynthia a Niekamp Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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