Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Nancy Sidewater 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.
- $102k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Nancy Sidewater Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $92k | 55% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $93k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $90k | 58% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $97k | 69% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $91k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $65k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Film Forum Inc | $50,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wnet | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| God's Love We Deliver Inc | $36,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Donorschooseorg | $33,154 | 4 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood | $30,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Trini Foundation | $30,000 | 4 | 9% |
| The Jewish Museum | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| William Loveland Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 43% |
| The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sandy Hook Promise Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($140k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Nancy Sidewater Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Nancy Sidewater Foundation
- How much does Nancy Sidewater Foundation give?
- Nancy Sidewater Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $102,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Nancy Sidewater Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Health (12%), Education (10%).
- Who are Nancy Sidewater Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Film Forum Inc ($50k), Wnet ($50k), God's Love We Deliver Inc ($36k).
- Does Nancy Sidewater Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nancy Sidewater Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nancy Sidewater Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Network for Good.
- Where is Nancy Sidewater Foundation based?
- Nancy Sidewater Foundation is based in PA.
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