How much does Nasaw Foundation give?

Nasaw Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $43,404 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 68 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Nasaw Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (56%), Recreation & Sports (8%), Education (7%).

Who are Nasaw Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: California Pacific Medical Center Foundation ($300k), Montage Health Foundation ($260k), Northwestern University ($110k).

Does Nasaw Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Nasaw 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.

Where is Nasaw Foundation based?

Nasaw Foundation is based in CA.

Nasaw Foundation

Nasaw Foundation at a glance

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Nasaw Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Nasaw Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.

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.

$43k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$786kRecreation & Sports$114kEducation$97kPhilanthropy$77kPublic Safety & Disaster$67kEnvironment$60kArts & Culture$51kHuman Services$47kOther$0

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k11 grants · $23k
$10k–50k2 grants · $20k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$10k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PACIFIC VISION FOUNDATION	$10,000
CARMEL CARES	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$8,174
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION	$5,000
THE NATHANIEL WHARTON FUND	$2,500
CARMEL POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION	$2,500
HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT	$1,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY	$1,000
WENTWORTH MILITARY ACADEMY MUSEUM	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL	$1,000
MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL	$130
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION	$100

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Nasaw Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 81%.

Nasaw Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 3.8% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 59 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+25%

Still filing today

66%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureHealthEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

CP
CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
2× · 2017–2018 · $300k · revenue +32%
Northwestern University
5× · 2018–2025 · $110k · revenue +33%
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +109%

Funded once

TU
The University Foundation California State University Chico
one grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +25%
JF
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES
one grant, 2018 · $13k
TS
THE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +102%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

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

Education

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

The Uc Davis Foundation

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

Education

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture

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.

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Mills College

Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…

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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

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

California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Npr Foundation

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…

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is Canticle Farm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

105 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 105 of the 154 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

102/105

Grantees still filing

75/105

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$669,270Other$381,920Recreation & Sports$109,500Education$79,950Philanthropy$62,000Environment$55,300Human Services$36,550

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Marin Community FoundationCA34.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Impactassetsinc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Springcreek Foundation · The California Endowment · Common Counsel Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Nasaw Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nasaw Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home