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Nash Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$170k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
9%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$19,500
Organizations funded a year
12 to 32
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$4.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Nash Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving22$170k5%
FY202423$152k9%
FY202332$161k44%
FY202224$173k33%
FY202121$150k24%
FY202022$150k55%
FY201921$135k38%
FY201812$155k58%
90% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$203kArts & Culture$177kHousing & Shelter$139kHealth$118kEmployment$92kHuman Services$89kCivil Rights$89kYouth Development$64kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
MA
OH
RI
VA
SC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 48 grantees
All grantees of Nash Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Catholic Mobilizing Network$84,69682%
Lake Erie Nature and Science Center$78,50091%
Gaining Ground Inc$63,70592%
Miriam's Kitchen$62,00050%
Grow It Forward Inc$55,00056%
A Farm Less Ordinary$53,00062%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Manitowoc County Inc$48,00066%
The Crossing of Manitowoc County Inc$40,20172%
Chesterbrook Community Foundation Inc$39,500720%
Boston Area Gleaners Inc$35,50050%
Open Table Inc$28,51060%
Hope House of Manitowoc County Inc$25,50044%
Treehouse Theater Inc$25,00062%
The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless Inc$23,30030%
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc$20,00030%
Painting Pathways Clubhouse Inc$19,25034%
Prospect Hill Community Foundation Inc$18,700430%
The Haven of Manitowoc County Inc$18,00024%
Littleton Community Farm$15,00038%
Found in Translation Inc$14,50030%
Open Arms Housing Inc$13,00021%
Jubilee Jobs Inc$12,00021%
Vocational Guidance Services$12,00020%
Boston Comic Arts Foundation LTD$12,00032%
Women's Recovery Center$11,66631%
Christ House$10,00010%
Strongwater Farm Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc$10,00021%
Lakeshore First Robotics Inc$10,00032%
Sitters for Scholars Inc$10,00023%
Friends of St Stephen's Youth Programs Inc$9,00011%
Doc Wayne Inc$8,00010%
Foundations Health & Wholeness Inc$8,00020%
My Brothers Keeper Inc$7,50010%
Artists for Humanity Inc$7,00020%
Lakeshore Community Health Care Inc$7,00010%
Manitowoc County Historical Society Inc$6,66612%
Beacon House Inc$6,0002n/a
Ascensions Community Services Inc$5,00011%
Children's Dyslexia Centers Inc$5,00010%
Commonwealth Land Trust Inc$5,00010%
The Haven Home LLC$5,00013%
New England Innocence Project$5,00010%
Art Enables$4,50010%
City Mission Inc$4,00010%
The Production Farm Inc$3,00010%
Kan Cool for School Inc$2,5001n/a
Reins Inc$1,00010%
City Mission$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($401k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Nash Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCatholic Mobilizing Network: $84,696 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetLake Erie Nature and Science Center: $78,500 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetGaining Ground Inc: $63,705 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetMiriam's Kitchen: $62,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGrow It Forward Inc: $55,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetA Farm Less Ordinary: $53,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Manitowoc County Inc: $48,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetThe Crossing of Manitowoc County Inc: $40,201 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetChesterbrook Community Foundation Inc: $39,500 over 7y, 20% of budgetBoston Area Gleaners Inc: $35,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOpen Table Inc: $28,510 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHope House of Manitowoc County Inc: $25,500 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetTreehouse Theater Inc: $25,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetThe Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless Inc: $23,300 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPainting Pathways Clubhouse Inc: $19,250 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetProspect Hill Community Foundation Inc: $18,700 over 4y, 30% of budgetThe Haven of Manitowoc County Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetLittleton Community Farm: $15,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetFound in Translation Inc: $14,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOpen Arms Housing Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJubilee Jobs Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetVocational Guidance Services: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBoston Comic Arts Foundation LTD: $12,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetWomen's Recovery Center: $11,666 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetChrist House: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStrongwater Farm Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLakeshore First Robotics Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSitters for Scholars Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetFriends of St Stephen's Youth Programs Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDoc Wayne Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFoundations Health & Wholeness Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArtists for Humanity Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLakeshore Community Health Care Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetManitowoc County Historical Society Inc: $6,666 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAscensions Community Services Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetChildren's Dyslexia Centers Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommonwealth Land Trust Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Haven Home LLC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNew England Innocence Project: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetArt Enables: $4,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCity Mission Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Production Farm Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetReins Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 45.

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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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation IncWI32.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Harold C Kallies Charitable Trust 32f003019 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Jane & Arthur Stangel Fund Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

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About Nash Family Foundation

How much does Nash Family Foundation give?
Nash Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $169,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Nash Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (15%), Arts & Culture (13%), Housing & Shelter (10%).
Who are Nash Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Catholic Mobilizing Network ($85k), Lake Erie Nature and Science Center ($79k), Gaining Ground Inc ($64k).
Does Nash Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Nash Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Nash Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Nash Family Foundation based?
Nash Family Foundation is based in WI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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