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Florence Nesh Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$330k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Health$1.4MEducation$1.1MHuman Services$40kArts & Culture$10kPhilanthropy$8kEmployment$4k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $305k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$95,000
CHILDRENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE$60,000
SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$50,000
ORTHOBIOLOGICS RESEARCH INITIATIVE$50,000
ARTHRITIS NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE$24,997
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 68% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LUMIND RESEARCH DOWN SYNROME FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY OF THE COMMONWEALTH: $15k → 7%WILSON COLLEGE: $20k → 9%LANCASTER HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 9%NSABP FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 11%MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%ARTHRITIS NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%CHILDRENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $60k → 14%INOVA HEALTH SYSTMS FOUNDATION: $80k → 6%VIRGINIA HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $42k → 7%MEDSTAR GEORGETOWN: $45k → 6%ORTHOBIOLOGICS RESEARCH INITIATIVE: $50k → 8%BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY: $10k → 19%LUMIND RESEARCH DOWN SYNROME FOUNDATION: $30k → 8%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $25k → 11%CHILDRENS NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 14%INOVA HEALTH SYSTMS FOUNDATION: $65k → 6%THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND: $15k → 19%MEDSTAR WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER: $40k → 14%Inova Health System Foundation: $61k → 6%CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND BALTIMORE: $20k → 19%CARLOW UNIVERSITY: $20k → 11%WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 22%CHILDRENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $20k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $80k → 8%WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 22%SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%THE UNIVERSITIES AT SHADY GROVE: $68k → 8%SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE: $180k → 19%SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%SUBURBAN HOSPITAL: $70k → 8%CHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES INC: $82k → 19%ACADEMY OF HOPE ADULT PCS: $20k → 14%SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $60k → 8%CHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES INC: $80k → 19%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $125k → 14%SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%UMB FOUNDATION INC: $35k → 19%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $95k → 14%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL: $70k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE: $25k → 19%THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $75k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND: $15k → 19%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $75k → 14%THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $68k → 14%THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $55k → 14%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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 12 repeat orgs$768k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
29

Total granted

$1.8M
$668k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+24%

Still filing today

92%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2025 · $295k · revenue +35%
  • IH
    INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $206k · revenue +8%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    3× · 2019–2024 · $198k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • SH
    SUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue +17%
  • CN
    CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $70k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITIES AT SHADY GROVE
    one grant, 2018 · $68k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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2
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
3
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
4
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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5
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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6
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
7
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
9
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
10
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
11
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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12
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Children's Research Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr18%18%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr16%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr18%16%20–35yr14%50%35–55yr16%21%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
12%
5,731/46,684

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

35 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/35
Grantees still filing
25/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $206,286 · HealthINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONCHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES INC — $162,231 · HealthCHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES INCSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $150,000 · HealthSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 · HealthSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCCHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $79,907 · HealthCHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTESUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC — $70,000 · HealthSUBURBAN HOSPITAL INCCHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $50,000 · HealthARTHRITIS NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthThe Virginia Hospital Center Foundation — $42,000 · HealthWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION — $40,000 · Health+3 more — $45,000 · HealthGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $294,507 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYThe George Washington University — $197,500 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · EducationWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC+9 more — $144,100 · Education+9 moreUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE — $205,120 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALT…LuMind IDSC Foundation — $80,000 · OtherLuMind IDSC FoundationCHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL — $70,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITA…THE UNIVERSITIES AT SHADY GROVE — $67,844 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITIES AT SHADY G…ORTHOBIOLOGICS RESEARCH INITIATIVE INC — $50,000 · OtherORTHOBIOLOGICS RESEARCH INI…MEDSTAR GEORGETOWN — $45,136 · OtherMEDSTAR GEORGETOWNUMB FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · OtherUMB FOUNDATION INC+8 more — $71,000 · Other+8 moreBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC — $10,075 · Arts & CultureSO WHAT ELSE INC — $7,500 · Philanthropy
Health$1,005,424Education$916,107Other$624,100Arts & Culture$10,075Philanthropy$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $294,507 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $206,286 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $197,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHASE BREXTON HEALTH SERVICES INC — $162,231 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLuMind IDSC Foundation — $80,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $79,907 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC — $70,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Virginia Hospital Center Foundation — $42,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND BALTIMORE — $30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILSON COLLEGE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARLOW UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNSABP FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACADEMY OF HOPE ADULT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $19,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC — $10,075 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVINCENTIAN COLLABORATIVE SYSTEM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Patients at the NIH Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $7,981 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERDS CLINIC INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSO WHAT ELSE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $6,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,119 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeyond Literacy — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER — $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Truist Foundation IncClark-Winchcole Found…France-Merrick Founda…The United Way of Cen…Baltimore Community F…The Philadelphia Foun…The Myrtle Forsha Mem…The Abell Foundation …The Ayco Charitable F…Nora Roberts Foundati…T Rowe Price Program …Greater Washington Co…
Truist Foundation IncFL16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Truist Foundation Inc · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Myrtle Forsha Memorial Trust · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation

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 Florence Nesh Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Friends of Patients at the Nih Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Chase Brexton Health Services Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Suburban Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report 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

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 43 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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