· Private foundation
Nast Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
90% of Nast Family Foundation Inc’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Greater Horizons, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Nast Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $340k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OZAUKEE WASHINGTON LAND TRUST | $100,000 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $35,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART | $30,000 |
| VOLUNTEER CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC | $25,000 |
| HUNGER TASK FORCE | $25,000 |
| CEDAR LAKE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY WASHINGTON COUNTY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| HOMETOWN FOUNDATION | $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 (FY17–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +108% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2022, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
HUNGER TASK FORCE INC6× · 2017–2023 · $200k · revenue +70%- RLRESTORING LANDS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $185k · revenue +451%
MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC5× · 2017–2023 · $170k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- CMCAMP MANITO-WISH WATERS YMCAone grant, 2021 · $60k
RADIO MILWAUKEE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $34k · revenue +78%- 8R889 RADIO MILWAUKEEone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.
The milwaukee county historical society was founded in 1935 to collect, preserve, and make available materials relating to the history of the milwaukee community.
The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…
The Museum, located just east of historic downtown Cedarburg, Wisconsin is dedicated to educating the public about the artistice, cultural, historic and social importance of quilts and fiber arts. We also seek to increase the awareness of…
Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…
The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.
The war memorial center's mission is to honor the dead and serve the living. we commemorate the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom while preserving and sharing the stories, experiences, and…
WMNC will continue constructing the new Milwaukee Public Museum facility to completion and will then continue as the owner and operator of the new museum.
Obtain and manage land of ecological significance.
The mission of the wisconsin association of lakes is to conserve, enhance, and restore wisconsin's 15,000 lakes to ensure their sustainability for the benefit and collective use and enjoyment for this and future generations.
Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.
The mission of the west wisconsin land trust, inc. is to preserve western wisconsin's natural character by informing, facilitating, and partnering with private landowners, communities, and local governments to protect valuable land.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sculpture Milwaukee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Holy Family Memorial Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 35 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 Greater Horizons ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORING LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR LAKES CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM & LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds KETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds RADIO MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CEDARBURG ART MUSEUM & SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WEST BEND FRIENDS OF SCULPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds SCULPTURE MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds FISC CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: West Bend Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Oscar & Augusta Schlegel Fdn · Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust · William Stark Jones Foundation Katherine W Lambert Co-Trustee · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Kohler Foundation Inc · Windhover Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Horizons · American Endowment Foundation
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 Nast Family Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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