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Lori & Michael Nash Foundation at a glance

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Lori & Michael Nash 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.

$770k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$167k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$2.7MEducation$853kYouth Development$438kFood & Nutrition$333kPhilanthropy$330kInternational$326kRecreation & Sports$127kHousing & Shelter$102kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $228k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $477k
$8,287
Median grant
11
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$167,081
DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL$100,000
SPARK YOUTH NYC INC$100,000
GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER$60,000
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$50,000
MCC THEATER$26,450
TEACHING MATTERS$25,725
HARLEM RBI INC$25,000
GROUNDSWELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$25,000
BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION$20,708
ANSWER THE CALL NEW YORK POLICE & FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND$18,653
TOM JAY COUGHLIN FUND FOUNDATION$15,000
MET COUNCIL$10,800
GOOD FOOD WORKS$10,676
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 11%WHEELING FORWARD INC: $526 → 20%GRAHAMS FOUNDATION: $8k → 18%SERVICESOURCE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 6%THE MARION & AARON GURAL JCC: $2k → 6%SERVICESOURCE FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 6%MONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC: $200 → 8%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $25k → 11%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $5k → 16%SERVICESOURCE FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 6%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $2k → 16%CATHOLIC COALITION FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION: $1k → 8%TRIP OF A LIFETIME INC: $2k → 9%PROJECT TOAL (TRIP OF A LIFETIME): $2k → 9%THE BLUE CARD INC: $5k → 17%PROJECT TOAL (TRIP OF A LIFETIME): $2k → 9%TRIP OF A LIFETIME INC: $1k → 9%TRIP OF A LIFETIME: $1k → 9%TRIP OF A LIFETIME INC: $1k → 9%TRIP OF A LIFETIME INC: $1k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $3k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $1k → 17%ANSWER THE CALL: $6k → 17%NEW YORK POLICE & FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND: $6k → 17%ANSWER THE CALL NEW YORK POLICE & FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND: $1k → 17%GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC: $5k → 17%GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT: $2k → 17%GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT: $1k → 17%GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT: $1k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED: $10k → 17%GOOD FOOD WORKS: $11k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED: $5k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 68 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

68 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
111

Total granted

$3.9M
$849k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+16%

Still filing today

84%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • MR
    MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +33%
  • SN
    SPARKYOUTH NYC INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $337k · revenue +21%
  • GL
    GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $297k · revenue +226%

Funded once

  • SU
    STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • TO
    THE OLI HILSDON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $105k
  • Compassion International Incorporated
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +16%
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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
New York Blood Center Inc

As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.

Health
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Steven Schwartzberg Foundation Inc. 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

166 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 166 of the 211 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
161/166
Grantees still filing
107/166
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,120,208 · OtherMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY: $150,000 · Other+105 more: $1,125,343 · Other+105 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $310,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF …DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL: $100,000 · EducationDREAM CHARTE…TEACHING MATTERS INC: $61,289 · EducationTEACHING MAT…UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $36,000 · EducationUNCOMMON SCH…+20 more: $90,336 · Education+20 moreCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $101,500 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $35,000 · PhilanthropyTHE TOM COUGHLIN JAY FUND FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyHARLEM RBI INC: $25,517 · PhilanthropyGROUNDSWELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy+8 more: $30,187 · PhilanthropyLISA B FISHMAN FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · HealthJOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthLETS WIN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthMS HOPE FOR A CURE INC: $25,000 · HealthBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $20,708 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR GENDER-SPECIFIC MEDICINE INC: $20,000 · HealthLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $15,584 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $13,530 · Health+25 more: $75,490 · HealthSPARKYOUTH NYC INC: $337,129 · Crime & LegalGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $297,080 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $17,200 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $5,000 · Food & NutritionNY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC: $78,943 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $23,288 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN NEED INC: $16,105 · Human ServicesGOOD FOOD WORKS INC: $10,676 · Human ServicesTRIP OF A LIFETIME INC: $10,077 · Human ServicesGRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC: $8,630 · Human ServicesGRAHAMS FOUNDATION: $8,287 · Human Services+9 more: $36,600 · Human Services
Other$3,395,551Education$597,625Philanthropy$347,204Health$345,312Crime & Legal$337,129Food & Nutrition$319,280Human Services$222,606

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,120,208 over 9y, 14% of budgetSPARKYOUTH NYC INC: $337,129 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $310,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $297,080 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $101,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDREAM CHARTER SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEE OFF FORE LIFE INC: $88,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetLISA B FISHMAN FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetNY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC: $78,943 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTEACHING MATTERS INC: $61,289 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $58,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC: $56,363 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLETS WIN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHAILEYS HOPE FOUNDATION: $41,000 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $36,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOM COUGHLIN JAY FUND FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC: $26,450 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHARLEM RBI INC: $25,517 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,200 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMS HOPE FOR A CURE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $23,288 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $20,708 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR GENDER-SPECIFIC MEDICINE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $17,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC: $16,105 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $15,584 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $13,530 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $12,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHAMROCK WAY INC: $11,423 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $11,080 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $10,565 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STEVEN SCHWARTZBERG FOUNDATION INC: $10,387 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCIVIC BUILDERS INC: $10,145 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRIP OF A LIFETIME INC: $10,077 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetAGA KHAN FOUNDATION USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION INC DBA FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Debra and Kenneth Cap…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundAmerican Express Foun…The Hyde and Watson F…Gray FoundationRobin Hood FoundationUnited Way Miami IncMarch Family Foundati…Fisher Brothers Found…May and Samuel Rudin …Fjc
Debra and Kenneth Caplan FoundationDE38.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · American Express Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Gray Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · United Way Miami Inc · March Family Foundation · Fisher Brothers Foundation Inc % Fisher Brothers · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Fjc

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 Lori & Michael Nash Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lori & Michael Nash Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc: 17% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Park Central Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
30report 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.
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How do I get to Lori & Michael Nash Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lori & Michael Nash Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 211 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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