· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART | $30,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CEDAR LAKE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY WASHINGTON COUNTY | $25,000 |
| HUNGER TASK FORCE | $25,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| VOLUNTEER CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| HOMETOWN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +108% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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
How this is measured
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%- LHLUTHERAN HOME - MEMORY CAREone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 VOLUNTEER CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nast Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nast Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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