California · Private foundation
Nancy Somers 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.
- $50k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $540k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Nancy Somers Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 2 | $50k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $164k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $139k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $149k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $154k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $149k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $154k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $101k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avivo | $110,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Commonbond Communities | $95,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Open Arms of Minnesota | $92,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Food Group Minnesota Inc The | $87,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Project for Pride in Living Inc | $74,000 | 7 | 0% |
| North Country Food Alliance | $60,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Tubman | $55,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Avenues for Youth | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Jeremiah Program | $40,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avivo | $110,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Commonbond Communities | $95,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Open Arms of Minnesota | $92,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Food Group Minnesota Inc The | $87,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Project for Pride in Living Inc | $74,000 | 7 | 0% |
| North Country Food Alliance | $60,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Tubman | $55,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Avenues for Youth | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Jeremiah Program | $40,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans | $31,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Youthlink | $27,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Summit Academy Oic | $26,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Minneapolis Parks Foundation | $24,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Twin Cities Rise | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| VEAP Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bridging Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gilda's Club Twin Cities Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Nami Minnesota | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Metro Meals on Wheels Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Creative Spirit | $1,000 | 1 | 2% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($165k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nancy Somers Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
About Nancy Somers Family Foundation
- How much does Nancy Somers Family Foundation give?
- Nancy Somers Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Nancy Somers Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (35%), Food & Nutrition (23%), Health (15%).
- Who are Nancy Somers Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Avivo ($110k), Commonbond Communities ($95k), Open Arms of Minnesota ($93k).
- Does Nancy Somers Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nancy Somers Family 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 Somers Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
- Where is Nancy Somers Family Foundation based?
- Nancy Somers Family Foundation is based in CA.
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