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Nash Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$170k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% 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
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $97k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC MOBILIZING NETWORK$19,500
CATHEDRAL OF ST MATTHEW THE APOSTLE$18,000
GROW IT FORWARD$15,000
THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS$10,000
A FARM LESS ORDINARY$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
GAINING GROUND$5,000
THE CROSSING OF MANITOWOC COUNTY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY$5,000
BOSTON COMIC ARTS FOUNDATION$5,000
FOUND IN TRANSLATION$5,000
02The need
03

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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $15k → 14%A FARM LESS ORDINARY: $10k → 4%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $15k → 14%THE LAKESHORE INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK DBA HOPE HOUSE OF MANITOWOC CO: $14k → 11%A FARM LESS ORDINARY: $10k → 4%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $12k → 14%A FARM LESS ORDINARY: $10k → 4%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $10k → 14%THE CROSSING OF MANITOWOC COUNTY: $10k → 11%A FARM LESS ORDINARY: $10k → 4%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $10k → 14%A FARM LESS ORDINARY: $8k → 4%A FARM LESS ORDINARY: $5k → 4%SITTERS FOR SCHOLARS: $5k → 16%SITTERS FOR SCHOLARS: $5k → 16%THE CROSSING OF MANITOWOC COUNTY: $7k → 11%HOPE HOUSE OF MANITOWOC COUNTY: $6k → 11%THE CROSSING OF MANITOWOC COUNTY: $5k → 11%THE CROSSING OF MANITOWOC COUNTY: $5k → 11%OPEN ARMS HOUSING INC: $8k → 14%OPEN ARMS HOUSING INC: $6k → 14%PROSPECT HILL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 8%THE LAKESHORE INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK DBA HOPE HOUSE OF MANITOWOC CO: $3k → 11%PROSPECT HILL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 8%THE LAKESHORE INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK DBA HOPE HOUSE OF MANITOWOC CO: $3k → 11%PROSPECT HILL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 8%PROSPECT HILL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WI
MA
OH
RI
VA
SC
DC
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 41 repeat orgs$221k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
33

Total granted

$1.1M
$217k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+56%

Still filing today

68%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CM
    CATHOLIC MOBILIZING NETWORK
    8× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +40%
  • LE
    LAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +113%
  • GG
    GAINING GROUND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +280%

Funded once

  • W
    WATERFIRE
    one grant, 2018 · $45k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • CH
    Christ House
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +18%
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.

1
Leander House Inc

Assist people with disabilities

Health
2
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
3
Mental Health Connecticut Inc

Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.

Health
4
Marrakech Inc

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…

Employment
5
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
6
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
7
Center for Living & Working Inc

We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.

Human Services
8
Transition House Inc

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…

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9
House of Hope Housing Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
10
Lifestream Inc

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.

Health
11
Lincoln Behavioral Services

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…

Health
12
Triangle Inc

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.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Doc Wayne Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
37/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GAINING GROUND INC: $63,705 · OtherGAINING GROUND INCCATHEDRAL OF ST MATTHEW THE APOSTLE: $51,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL OF ST MATTHEW THE APOSTLEBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC: $48,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INCWATERFIRE: $45,000 · OtherWATERFIREIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNAMI NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS: $40,000 · OtherNAMI NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESSIndividual grant recipient: $34,500 · OtherSTREET SENSE MEDIADC LINE: $32,650 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherCHESTERBROOK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $39,500 · Other+40 more: $316,384 · Other+40 moreMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $62,000 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S KITCHENA FARM LESS ORDINARY: $53,000 · Human ServicesA FARM LESS ORDINA…THE CROSSING OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC: $40,201 · Human ServicesTHE CROSSING OF MA…HOPE HOUSE OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC: $25,500 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE OF MANI…PROSPECT HILL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $18,700 · Human ServicesPROSPECT HILL COMM…Open Arms Housing Inc: $13,000 · Human ServicesOpen Arms Housing …SITTERS FOR SCHOLARS INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $7,500 · Human ServicesLAKE ERIE NATURE AND SCIENCE CENTER: $78,500 · Arts & CultureLAKE ERIE …TREEHOUSE THEATER INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTREEHOUSE …Boston Comic Arts Foundation LTD: $12,000 · Arts & CultureBoston Com…ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureMANITOWOC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $6,666 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureGROW IT FORWARD INC: $55,000 · Food & NutritionGROW IT F…BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC: $35,500 · Food & NutritionBOSTON AR…OPEN TABLE INC: $28,510 · Food & NutritionOPEN TABL…CATHOLIC MOBILIZING NETWORK: $84,696 · Civil RightsEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $20,000 · EducationFound in Translation Inc: $14,500 · EducationLAKESHORE FIRST ROBOTICS INC: $10,000 · EducationPAINTING PATHWAYS CLUBHOUSE INC: $19,250 · HealthSTRONGWATER FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $10,000 · HealthLAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC: $7,000 · HealthASCENSIONS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · Health
Other$740,739Human Services$229,901Arts & Culture$132,166Food & Nutrition$119,010Civil Rights$84,696Education$44,500Health$42,250

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

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 budgetINCOURAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.3% 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
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.

  • 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 VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Boston Comic Arts Foundation LTD ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S RECOVERY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Christ House ↗
  • Who funds STRONGWATER FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKESHORE FIRST ROBOTICS INC ↗

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 D…Cummings Foundation G…Lakeshore Community F…Green Bay Packers Fou…Harold C Kallies Char…Eastern Bank Foundati…Wisconsin Public Serv…Jane & Arthur Stangel…Boston Foundation IncThe Cabot Family Char…Middlesex Savings Cha…Cambridge Savings Cha…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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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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