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NADA Foundation

The NADA Foundation operates exclusively for charitable and educational purposes.

$678k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$136k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your 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 FY2017–2024.

Animals$938kEducation$290kYouth Development$102kCivil Rights$100kHuman Services$99kHealth$90kCommunity Improvement$90kPhilanthropy$42kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $161,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $677,565 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $516,565 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $136k
$136,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Canine Companions for Independence$136,000
Vehicles for Change$25,000
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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Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $187k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GREAT FALLS SCOTTISH RITE CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE DISORDERS CLINIIC INC: $6k → 14%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $100k → 17%NEENAH MENASHA YMCA: $5k → 11%VALLEY SHORE YMCA: $6k → 7%AUTO DEALERS UNITED FOR CHILDREN: $6k → 18%GOOD NEWS MOUNTAINEER GARAGE: $6k → 18%Vehicles for Change: $25k → 11%CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $10k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES AOW: $8k → 14%Vehicles for Change: $15k → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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ND
IL
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MI
NY
OR
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
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CO
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MD
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GA
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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 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
Columbia College

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

Education
2
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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5
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
6
Dunwoody College of Technology

Dunwoody college changes lives by building opportunities for graduates to have successful careers, to develop into leaders and entrepreneurs, and to engage in "the better performance of life's duties." quote is from the last will and…

Education
7
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
8
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
9
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
10
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
11
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
12
Goldey-Beacom College

Empowering learners to achieve excellence by linking knowledge to practice.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mary Bridge Children's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Shau-Wai & Marie Lam Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Health Access Advocacy and …Ymca Youth DevelopmentCancer Support ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Christian Youth CampsIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsMilitary Veterans SupportYouth Development ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…School District FoundationsJewish Community Organizati…Community FoundationsAnimal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%59%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/77
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,488

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

71 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. 71 of the 77 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/71
Grantees still filing
45/71
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $925,820 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INCNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INCURBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA — $70,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANAVEHICLES FOR CHANGE INC — $40,000 · Human Services+7 more — $47,330 · Human ServicesNorthwood University — $100,000 · EducationNorthwood Unive…THE CENTER FOR AUTOMOTIVE EDUCATION — $34,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR …INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF WASHINGTON — $12,000 · EducationHUTCHINSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION — $12,000 · EducationREGIS UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · Education+14 more — $90,000 · Education+14 moreSADD INC — $22,000 · OtherSADD INCASE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherASE EDUCATIO…HAZELWILD FARM EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $14,000 · OtherHAZELWILD FA…PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF TACOMA SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL — $10,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL OF PEORIA INC — $8,000 · OtherTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS — $8,000 · OtherCHINATOWN MANPOWER PROJECT INC — $10,000 · OtherNEW JERSEY CHINESE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $10,000 · Other+18 more — $108,000 · Other+18 moreTHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SHAU-WAI & MARIE LAM FAMILY FOUNDATION — $15,810 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE — $8,000 · PhilanthropyPARKERSBURG AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC (PREVIOUSLY PACF INC) — $6,000 · PhilanthropyFARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $6,000 · PhilanthropyJX GIVES BACK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · HealthCAMP H-TOWN — $8,000 · HealthLeukemia Research Foundation of DE — $8,000 · HealthMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $8,000 · HealthVALLEY VIEW HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $8,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $6,000 · HealthColorado Gynecologic Cancer Alliance — $6,000 · HealthST JOHNS RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL ANDRUS PARKCARE & DOBBS FERRY — $6,000 · HealthBAYHEALTH FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $6,000 · HealthVERMONTS CAMP TA-KUM-TA — $6,000 · HealthNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BRIDGE MINISTRY INC — $10,000 · ReligionVictory Center Ministries Inc — $6,000 · Religion
Human Services$1,183,150Education$258,000Other$210,000Philanthropy$91,810Health$72,000Youth Development$24,000Religion$16,000

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 budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $925,820 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwood University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA — $70,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetVEHICLES FOR CHANGE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR AUTOMOTIVE EDUCATION — $34,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSADD INC — $22,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetASE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHAZELWILD FARM EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF WASHINGTON — $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHUTCHINSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION — $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BRIDGE MINISTRY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetREGIS UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHINATOWN MANPOWER PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW JERSEY CHINESE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetPARTICULAR COUNCIL OF TACOMA SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP H-TOWN — $8,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLeukemia Research Foundation of DE — $8,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHSIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF THE UPSTATE — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY VIEW HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA AUTOMOTIVE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCEDAR SINAI PARK FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHonor Flight Maine Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLife Support — $6,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD GROUP INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNH AUTOMOTIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBEYOND BASICS — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD NEWS MOUNTAINEER GARAGE INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCARRIAGE HOUSE FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREAT FALLS SCOTTISH RITE CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE DISORDERS CLINIC — $6,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetVIRGINIA POLICE K-9 ASSOCIATION — $6,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetValley Shore YMCA Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARKERSBURG AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC (PREVIOUSLY PACF INC) — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEATHERFORD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Gynecologic Cancer Alliance — $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Charities Aid Foundat…Wells Fargo FoundationTruist Foundation IncThe Albertsons Compan…Morgan Stanley Global…The Ayco Charitable F…The US Charitable Gif…Enterprise Holdings F…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…AbbVie FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA11.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · Wells Fargo Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 NADA 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • United Way of Delaware — 58% of income from government
  • Vehicles for Change Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Bayhealth Foundation Corporation — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 77 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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