· Private foundation
James T Nystrom 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $130k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA WESTERN SCHOOL OF LAW | $200,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE | $6,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $6,000 |
| JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE FOOD GROUP | $5,000 |
| SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST | $5,000 |
| EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA | $4,000 |
| PROMISES2KIDS | $4,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
73 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CWCALIFORNIA WESTERN SCHOOL OF LAW9× · 2017–2025 · $674k · revenue +10%
- WCWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +302%
- AWAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- EIEARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE INC - SERENGETI WATCHone grant, 2020 · $4k
- YOYWCA OF MINNEAPOLISone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -21%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.
The minnesota center for environmental advocacy is a nonprofit organization that uses law, science and research to protect minnesota's environment, its natural resources and the health of its people.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The minnesota zoo foundation raises contributed income and supports conservation and animal care programs on behalf of the minnesota zoo. the mission of the minnesota zoo is to connect people, animals, and the natural world to save…
How this is measured
64 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. 64 of the 90 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CALIFORNIA WESTERN SCHOOL OF LAW ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER ↗
- Who funds THE WILDCAT SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARKS & TRAILS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds METRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC ↗
- Who funds Lake Minnetonka Association ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Natures Edge Therapy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ACRES FOR LIFE - THERAPY & WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds DEL MAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The K Foundation · The Crosswols Foundation · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family · Longview Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James T Nystrom Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James T Nystrom Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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