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Nachtsheim Family 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.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$281kArts & Culture$39kReligion$20kScience & Tech$13kHuman Services$13kHealth$12kAnimals$7kCommunity Improvement$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$484k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ST CATHERINE$10,000
COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM$7,144
KQED$4,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$2,500
ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND$2,000
CANINE COMPANIONS$2,000
CRETIN-DERHAM HALL HS$1,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$1,000
WATCH DUTY$500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY: $500 → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $1k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS: $51k → 14%THE OPPORTUNITY FUND: $4k → 11%ST FRANCIS LEGACY: $10k → 7%THE TECH INTERACTIVE: $23k → 8%REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $5k → 9%SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $20k → 10%WATCH DUTY: $500 → 10%RADYS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS: $2k → 13%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $1k → 17%AUGIE'S QUEST TO CURE ALS: $500 → 12%CRETIN-DERHAM HIGH SCHOOL: $20k → 14%ST FRANCIS CENTER OF REDWOOD CITY: $10k → 7%THE TECH MUSEUM OF INNOVATION: $20k → 8%NORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY FIRE - GEYSERVILLE: $3k → 9%NARAL-PRO CHOICE AMERICA: $500 → 10%SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAIN - FUND A NEED: $10k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS: $38k → 14%JOBTRAIN: $500 → 7%TECH INTERACTIVE: $20k → 8%KQED: $4k → 10%CRETIN-DERHAM HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 14%MENLO PARK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 → 7%TECH INTERACTIVE: $18k → 8%KQED: $3k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF ST CATHERINE: $10k → 14%WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL: $20k → 7%TECH INTERACTIVE: $16k → 8%KQED: $1k → 10%CRETIN-DERHAM HALL HS: $1k → 14%WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL: $15k → 7%THE TECH INTERACTIVE: $10k → 8%WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL: $10k → 7%ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND: $2k → 8%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5k → 7%VMC FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $3k → 7%COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $7k → 8%ATHERTON PAL: $100 → 7%COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $6k → 8%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$311k · 8 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
24

Total granted

$311k
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+8%

Still filing today

63%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • TT
    THE TECH INTERACTIVE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $117k · revenue -21%
  • UO
    University of St Thomas
    2× · 2017–2022 · $89k · revenue +49%
  • BF
    BENEDICTINE FATHERS OF THE PRIORY
    3× · 2017–2022 · $45k

Funded once

  • ST
    SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • Vanderbilt Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +74%
  • SF
    ST FRANCIS CENTER OF REDWOOD CITY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -37%

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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
5
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
6
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
7
Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc

To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.

Health
8
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
9
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
10
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

11
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Computer History Museum. 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BENEDICTINE FATHERS OF THE PRIORY — $45,000 · OtherBENEDICTINE FATHERS OF THE PRIORYCRETIN-DERHAM HIGH SCHOOL — $25,300 · OtherCRETIN-DERHAM HIGH SCHOOLSAINT THOMAS AQUINAS CATHOLIC CHURCH — $20,000 · OtherSAINT THOMAS AQUINAS CATHOLIC CHURCHST FRANCIS CENTER OF REDWOOD CITY — $10,000 · OtherST FRANCIS CENTER OF REDWOOD CITYIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF ST CATHERINE — $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ST CATHERINEPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $7,000 · Other+20 more — $23,100 · Other+20 moreTHE TECH INTERACTIVE — $116,809 · Arts & CultureTHE TECH INTERACTIVECOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM — $13,288 · Arts & CultureCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUMKQED INC — $8,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INCUniversity of St Thomas — $89,250 · EducationUniversity of St ThomasVanderbilt University — $11,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $6,500 · Human ServicesREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $5,000 · Food & NutritionVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) — $3,200 · HealthAugies Quest to Cure ALS Inc — $500 · HealthACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND INC — $2,000 · Community Improvement
Other$160,400Arts & Culture$138,097Education$100,250Human Services$6,500Food & Nutrition$5,000Health$3,700Community Improvement$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE — $116,809 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas — $89,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM — $13,288 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS CENTER OF REDWOOD CITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKQED INC — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) — $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis Center — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND INC — $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OPPORTUNITY FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOBTRAIN INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAugies Quest to Cure ALS Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE
  • Who funds University of St Thomas
  • Who funds COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS CENTER OF REDWOOD CITY
  • Who funds KQED INC
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
  • Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK
  • Who funds VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF)
  • Who funds St Francis Center
  • Who funds ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND INC
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA
  • Who funds THE OPPORTUNITY FUND
  • Who funds SHERWOOD FORESTRY SERVICE
  • Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds JOBTRAIN INC
  • Who funds Augies Quest to Cure ALS Inc
  • Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA15.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Leslie Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Nachtsheim Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 38 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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