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Leigh and Tyler Nottberg Family Foundation at a glance

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Leigh and Tyler Nottberg Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$149k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$355kCommunity Improvement$100kHealth$87kYouth Development$48kCrime & Legal$25kArts & Culture$25kHuman Services$25kEmployment$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $94k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$23,630
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREENLIGHT FUND$50,000
TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE$25,000
THERE WITH CARE$25,000
SAINT LUKE'S FOUNDATION$23,630
RUBY JEANS FOUNDATION$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$10,000
SAINT IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
02The need
03

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, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THERE WITH CARE: $25k → 12%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$615k · 7 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$615k
$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+1130%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TH
    THE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $215k · revenue +12%
  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury College
    4× · 2019–2022 · $125k · revenue +47%
  • GF
    GREENLIGHT FUND INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • TP
    TURNING POINT THE CENTER FOR HOPE AND HEALING
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • JC
    JACKSON COUNTY CASA
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -41%
  • CO
    CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AKA UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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.

04Its 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
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
Thomas Jefferson School

Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…

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8
Jefferson Regional Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…

Health
9
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
10
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
11
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
12
Southwestern Law School

For more than a century, southwestern has educated lawyers ready to serve clients, the profession, and our society with excellence. we empower students to reach their potential. we cultivate inclusion and belonging. we promote equity and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenlight Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ruby Jeans Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: $215,000 · EducationTHE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND IN…President and Fellows of Middlebury College: $125,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury CollegeGREAT JOBS KC INC: $12,500 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationWE CHARITY: $75,000 · OtherWE CHARITYTURNING POINT THE CENTER FOR HOPE AND HEALING: $50,000 · OtherTURNING POINT THE CENTER F…Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AKA UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $25,000 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY…+1 more: $5,000 · OtherGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGHT FUND …Ruby Jeans Foundation: $10,000 · Community ImprovementRuby Jeans Found…BOYS GROW CORP: $48,000 · Youth DevelopmentSaint Lukes Foundation: $27,130 · HealthTHERE WITH CARE: $25,000 · Human ServicesJACKSON COUNTY CASA: $25,000 · Civil Rights
Education$362,500Other$180,000Community Improvement$110,000Youth Development$48,000Health$27,130Human Services$25,000Civil Rights$25,000

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 budgetTHE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: $215,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $100,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS GROW CORP: $48,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetSaint Lukes Foundation: $27,130 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY CASA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRuby Jeans Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 8.6% 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.

Jewish Community Foun…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Greater Kansas City C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas CityKS13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · 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 Leigh and Tyler Nottberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leigh and Tyler Nottberg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 15 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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