· Private foundation
Nash Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC MOBILIZING NETWORK | $19,500 |
| CATHEDRAL OF ST MATTHEW THE APOSTLE | $18,000 |
| GROW IT FORWARD | $15,000 |
| A FARM LESS ORDINARY | $10,000 |
| THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS | $10,000 |
| CHESTERBROOK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $9,500 |
| LAKE ERIE SCIENCE AND NATURE CENTER | $8,500 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MANITOWOC COUNTY | $8,000 |
| BOSTON AREA GLEANERS | $6,500 |
| BEACON HOUSE | $5,000 |
| GAINING GROUND | $5,000 |
| THE CROSSING OF MANITOWOC COUNTY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| OPEN TABLE INC | $5,000 |
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, $209k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% 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.
41 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- CMCATHOLIC MOBILIZING NETWORK8× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +40%
- LELAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +113%
- GGGAINING GROUND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +280%
Funded once
- WWATERFIREone grant, 2018 · $45k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $25k
- AHAURORA HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Assist people with disabilities
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.
Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…
To promote improved social and economic conditions of families who are or who have recently been homeless; to promote, develop, and manage affordable housing for families and to assist in carrying out the charitable purposes of house of…
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Doc Wayne Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boston Comic Arts Foundation Ltd. 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 76 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 CATHOLIC MOBILIZING NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GAINING GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds GROW IT FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds A FARM LESS ORDINARY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSING OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTERBROOK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds INCOURAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds PAINTING PATHWAYS CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT HILL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLETON COMMUNITY FARM ↗
- Who funds Found in Translation Inc ↗
- Who funds Open Arms Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE JOBS INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Comic Arts Foundation LTD ↗
- Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RECOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SITTERS FOR SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds STRONGWATER FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Christ House ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
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
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 Nash 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.
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
- New England Innocence Project — 12% of income from government
- Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
- Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% 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.