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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 it funds
01FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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 its 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
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.
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
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
4
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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6
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
7
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
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; 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 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. 7 of the 19 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF FAIRHOPE: $2,000 · OtherCITY OF FAIRHOPEBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $2,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSRANSOM MINISTRIES SALVATION ORG: $2,000 · OtherRANSOM MINISTRIES SALVATION ORGIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFAIRHOPE LIBRARY: $2,000 · OtherFAIRHOPE LIBRARYSPRING HILL AVE TEMPLE: $1,500 · OtherSPRING HILL AVE TEMPLEHISTORY MUSEUM OF MOBILE: $1,500 · OtherHISTORY MUSEUM OF MOBILEST IGNATIUS CHURCH: $1,000 · OtherST IGNATIUS CHURCHTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYFairhope United Methodist Church: $1,000 · OtherFairhope United Methodist ChurchFAIRHOPE ROTARY YOUTH: $1,000 · OtherFAIRHOPE ROTARY YOUTH+2 more: $1,000 · Other+2 moreMAINE PRESERVATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMAINE PRESERV…FAIRHOPE CENTER FOR THE WRITING ARTS INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureFAIRHOPE CENT…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,000 · Arts & CultureThe United St…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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPrism United: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMAINE PRESERVATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRHOPE CENTER FOR THE WRITING ARTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Ed and Leonora Niemeyer Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ed and Leonora Niemeyer Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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