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Nemacheck Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Nemacheck Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$160k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$409kEducation$284kAnimals$191kHealth$56kPublic Safety & Disaster$45kRecreation & Sports$42kHuman Services$29kArts & Culture$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $74k
$8,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM$25,000
LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY$25,000
CABRILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION$14,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK$10,000
SANTA CRUZ SPCA$8,500
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY$8,500
MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION$8,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$8,000
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY$8,000
SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE$8,000
NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL$8,000
MONTANA STATE PARK FOUNDATION$8,000
FOUR WHEEL DRIVE FOUNDATION$6,000
HOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY$6,000
JACOB'S HEART$5,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: $8k → 9%MONTANA STATE PARK FOUNDATION: $8k → 9%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK - SAVE THE ELEPHANTS: $10k → 10%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM: $26k → 12%LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $31k → 7%FOUR WHEEL DRIVE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $8k → 8%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $10k → 9%NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $8k → 17%MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: $8k → 9%MONTANA STATE PARK FOUNDATION: $8k → 9%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK: $10k → 10%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM: $25k → 12%LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 7%SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $8k → 8%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $9k → 9%NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $8k → 17%MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: $7k → 9%MONTANA STATE PARK FOUNDATION: $7k → 9%GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $8k → 11%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK: $10k → 10%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM: $25k → 12%LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 7%SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $7k → 8%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $8k → 9%NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $7k → 17%MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: $7k → 9%MONTANA STATE PARK FOUNDATION: $7k → 9%GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $8k → 11%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK - SAVE THE ELEPHANTS: $10k → 10%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM: $25k → 12%LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $26k → 7%SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $7k → 8%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $8k → 9%NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $7k → 17%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK - SAVE THE ELEPHANTS: $10k → 10%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM: $25k → 12%LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $26k → 7%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $8k → 9%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM: $20k → 12%LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 7%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $8k → 9%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM: $20k → 12%CABRILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $14k → 13%LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 7%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM: $20k → 12%CABRILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 7%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 20 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
2

Total granted

$1.1M
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+169%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $186k · revenue +105%
  • CC
    Cabrillo College Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +153%
  • BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • JO
    JANUS OF SANTA CRUZgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +169%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
2
Rocky Mountain Wild

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…

Environment
3
The California Wildlife Center

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,…

Health
4
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
Sustainable Conservation

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…

Environment
6
CalWild

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.

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7
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
8
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
9
Western Conservation Foundation

Building leaders to protect the west's land, air, and water.

Environment
10
Western Rivers Conservancy

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…

Environment
11
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
12
Wild Earth Society Incorporated

Wildlands Network works to reconnect, restore and rewild North America so that life-in all its diversity-can thrive.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $186,000 · AnimalsMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATIONBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $64,500 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYSanta Cruz SPCA and Humane Society: $59,000 · AnimalsSanta Cruz SPCA and Humane SocietyWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $32,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INCLAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $194,000 · OtherLAWRENCE UNIVERSITYWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK - SAVE THE ELEPHANTS: $35,000 · OtherWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK - S…CAROLINE'S: $29,000 · OtherCAROLINE'SHOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $27,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTYJACOB'S HEART: $24,000 · OtherJACOB'S HEART+2 more: $15,000 · OtherMONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: $52,000 · EnvironmentMONTANA WILDERNES…NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $52,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL OUTDOOR …Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $52,000 · EnvironmentSouthern Utah Wil…WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN WATERSHED…Cabrillo College Foundation: $66,000 · EducationCabrillo …FOUR WHEEL DRIVE FOUNDATION: $24,000 · EducationFOUR WHEE…GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $42,000 · Recreation & SportsMONTANA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $42,000 · Recreation & SportsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $45,000 · Human ServicesJOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC: $21,000 · Arts & CultureJANUS OF SANTA CRUZ: $5,000 · Health
Animals$341,500Other$324,000Environment$171,000Education$90,000Recreation & Sports$84,000Human Services$45,000Arts & Culture$21,000Health$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $186,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCabrillo College Foundation: $66,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $64,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Cruz SPCA and Humane Society: $59,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: $52,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $52,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $52,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $45,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $42,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMONTANA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $42,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOUR WHEEL DRIVE FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetJOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC: $21,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetJANUS OF SANTA CRUZ: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Treacy FoundationPatagoniaorgSilicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Treacy FoundationMT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Nemacheck Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nemacheck Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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