· Private foundation
Nancy & Stanley Cieslak 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY | $5,500 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS | $4,000 |
| BARNABAS CENTER INC | $3,000 |
| NASSAU HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| JACKSONVILLE ZOO AND BOTANICAL GARDENS | $2,500 |
| NASSAU HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| NASSAU COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $2,000 |
| NMDP | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| ANIMAL FRIENDS INC | $2,000 |
| GREAT RESCUE OF NE FLORIDA | $2,000 |
| HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE | $2,000 |
| ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NHNASSAU HUMANE SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +407%
- NONATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +64%
- HAHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- TCThe City Theatre Company Incone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
To protect and provide for endangered species, to conduct avian research and provide information as a national resource, to provide a recreational and educational experience for the general public and to promote an appreciation of natural…
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Animal Rescue and the most unlike its peers is White Oak Conservation 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 52 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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. 26 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NASSAU HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Animal Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds BARNABAS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MATTS MAKER SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds NASSAU HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT RESCUE OF NE FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds NASSAU COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITE OAK CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Florida Wildlife Federation ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds The City Theatre Company Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Rose M & Robert W Stubbs Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · 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 Nancy & Stanley Cieslak 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
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.