· Private foundation
Nemacheck Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $74k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM | $25,000 |
| CABRILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK | $10,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $8,500 |
| SANTA CRUZ SPCA | $8,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $8,000 |
| SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE | $8,000 |
| NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| MONTANA STATE PARK FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
| GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $8,000 |
| FOUR WHEEL DRIVE FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| HOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY | $6,000 |
| JACOB'S HEART | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of your 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 4 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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $186k · revenue +105%- CCCabrillo College Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +153%
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- JOJANUS OF SANTA CRUZgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +169%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
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 montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
Building leaders to protect the west's land, air, and water.
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Wildlands Network works to reconnect, restore and rewild North America so that life-in all its diversity-can thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Four Wheel Drive Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 22 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 MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cabrillo College Foundation ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Santa Cruz SPCA and Humane Society ↗
- Who funds MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MONTANA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FOUR WHEEL DRIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds JANUS OF SANTA CRUZ ↗
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: Treacy Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Nemacheck 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.