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Ed and Leonora Niemeyer Charitable Tr

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$464k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRISM UNITED$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$2,000
RANSOM MINISTRIES SALVATION ORG$2,000
CITY OF FAIRHOPE$2,000
FAIRHOPE LIBRARY$2,000
SPRING HILL AVE TEMPLE$1,500
HISTORY MUSEUM OF MOBILE$1,500
NATURE CONSERVANCY$1,000
FAIRHOPE ROTARY YOUTH$1,000
MAINE PRESERVATION$1,000
FAIRHOPE CENTER FOR THE WRITING ARTS$1,000
ST IGNATIUS CHURCH$1,000
MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST$1,000
FAIRHOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$1,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PRISM UNITED: $2k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture
2
Society for the Preservation of New Engl

We save and share new england's past to engage and inform present and future generations.

Arts & Culture
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
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The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
5
The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc

The Preservation Society of Charleston is dedicated to the preservation and enjoyment of Charleston's distinct character, quality of life and diverse neighborhoods.

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The Trustees of Reservations

Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.

Environment
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Montauk Historical Society

The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…

Arts & Culture
8
The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture
9
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
10
United States National Committee of the Intl Council On Monum & Sites

Us/icomos, u.s. national committee on monuments and sites, promotes the conservation of world heritage and stronger connections to the global heritage community through advocacy, education, and the international exchange of people and…

Arts & Culture
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The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
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Marine Conservation Biology Institute

Marine conservation institute is dedicated to securing permanent, strong protection for the oceans' most important places for us and future generations.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY OF FAIRHOPE — $2,000 · OtherCITY OF FAIRHOPERANSOM MINISTRIES SALVATION ORG — $2,000 · OtherRANSOM MINISTRIES SALVATION ORGIndividual grant recipient — $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFAIRHOPE LIBRARY — $2,000 · OtherFAIRHOPE LIBRARYBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS — $2,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSHISTORY MUSEUM OF MOBILE — $1,500 · OtherHISTORY MUSEUM OF MOBILESPRING HILL AVE TEMPLE — $1,500 · OtherSPRING HILL AVE TEMPLETHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYFAIRHOPE ROTARY YOUTH — $1,000 · OtherFAIRHOPE ROTARY YOUTHFairhope United Methodist Church — $1,000 · OtherFairhope United Methodist ChurchST IGNATIUS CHURCH — $1,000 · OtherST IGNATIUS CHURCH+2 more — $1,000 · Other+2 moreMAINE PRESERVATION — $1,000 · Arts & CultureMAINE PRESERV…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $1,000 · Arts & CultureThe United St…FAIRHOPE CENTER FOR THE WRITING ARTS INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureFAIRHOPE CENT…Prism United — $2,000 · Human ServicesPrism Uni…Maine Coast Heritage Trust — $1,000 · EnvironmentPRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $1,000 · Education
Other$18,000Arts & Culture$3,000Human Services$2,000Environment$1,000Education$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPrism United — $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMAINE PRESERVATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRHOPE CENTER FOR THE WRITING ARTS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

  • Who funds Prism United
  • Who funds MAINE PRESERVATION
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Who funds FAIRHOPE CENTER FOR THE WRITING ARTS INC
  • Who funds PRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ed and Leonora Niemeyer Charitable Tr funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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