· Private foundation
Natem Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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
100% of Natem Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Tides Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $61k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $708k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $1,167,967 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $507,767 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $203,198 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $152,437 |
| SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $101,580 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $50,914 |
| SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $35,586 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $25,433 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 58% of Natem Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $8.8M · revenue +39%
- TITERGAR INTERNATIONAL4× · 2017–2020 · $250k · revenue +219%
- CWCOMPASSION WORKS FOR ALL3× · 2017–2019 · $115k · revenue +72% · 41% of their budget
Funded once
- BABUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR LOCAL LIVING ECONOMIESone grant, 2017 · $321k
- EBELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +86%
- CFCenter for the Contemplative Mind in Socone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -100%
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.
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To align capital with social justice values, and help activists and community leaders access capital as a tool for transformative social change. we empower community leaders to shape how capital flows affect them - both in terms of holding…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The tides entities work in partnership with community leaders, nonprofits, donors, foundations, and corporations to provide fiscal sponsorship, donor advised funds, grantmaking, and other philanthropic services.
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ↗
- Who funds TERGAR INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION WORKS FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds Center for the Contemplative Mind in Soc ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Natem Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Natem Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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