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Nesalis Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$168kInternational$27kHuman Services$9kHealth$9kArts & Culture$7kEducation$5kFood & Nutrition$4kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$109k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIMONIUM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$13,000
WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS$4,000
CRU$3,000
WESLEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$3,000
A CHILD'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL$1,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EVE CENTER: $1k → 16%EVE CENTER: $1k → 16%HONOR FLIGHT: $300 → 16%A CHILD'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 16%A CHILD'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 16%A CHILD'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 16%A CHILD'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 16%A CHILD'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 16%A CHILD'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 16%A CHILD'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 16%A CHILD'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 16%A CHILD'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$257k · 25 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
15

Total granted

$257k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+29%

Still filing today

32%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureInternationalReligionHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AC
    A Child's Hope International
    9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +87%
  • CG
    CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES
    5× · 2017–2022 · $8k · revenue +40%
  • CS
    CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $7k · revenue +198%

Funded once

  • AI
    ATHLETES IN ACTION GILLESPIE
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • CC
    CROSSROAD CHURCH HEALTH MISSION
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • FF
    FIRST FRUITS FARM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +29%
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
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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3
Child Hope International

We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.

Arts & Culture
4
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
5
Churches in Missions Inc

Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...

Human Services
6
Venture Ministries Incorporated

To assist the global body of Christ in the evangelization, education, and impartation of spiritual growth to unevangelized peoples, and Christian adherents.

Religion
7
MissionNext Inc

To connect God's people with the good works He is preparing them to do for Kingdom impact. We accomplish this through our Web-based matching services known as MissionNext Journey and MissionNext Education and and by working closely with…

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8
Next Worldwide Inc

With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.

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9
Alongside Inc

Restore hope, purpose, passion and relationships among Christian leaders who are making an impact around the world.

Religion
10
Chicago Bible Society

The Chicago Bible Society is a ministry that distributes Bibles to prisons, hospitals, and shelters and promotes increased reading of the Bible.

Crime & Legal
11
Servenow

Sharing Christ's Passion for the world by serving the most vulnerable through national churches and leaders.

Human Services
12
Cci City Changers International

City Changers strives to reach the impoverished community with the love of Jesus Christ by offering community and religious services.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cbmc International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 40 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)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TIMONIUM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $66,400 · OtherTIMONIUM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC: $28,000 · OtherWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INCCRU: $24,000 · OtherCRUMONTGOMERY COMMUNITY CHURCH: $20,600 · OtherMONTGOMERY COMMUNITY CHURCHFOCAS MINISTRIES: $13,000 · OtherFOCAS MINISTRIESIndividual grant recipient: $12,000 · OtherCBMC INTERNATIONAL INC: $11,000 · OtherWESLEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE METHODIST CHURCH: $9,375 · OtherCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $8,000 · Other+22 more: $40,463 · Other+22 moreA Child's Hope International: $26,500 · Human ServicesA Child's H…Eve Center Inc: $2,200 · Human ServicesEve Center …+1 more: $300 · Human ServicesCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $7,000 · Arts & CultureFIRST FRUITS FARM INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionMatthew 25 Ministries Inc: $2,000 · InternationalPRODIGAL MINISTRIES INC DBA DESIGN AND INTENT MINISTRIES: $1,000 · ReligionCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $500 · EnvironmentBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100 · Health
Other$232,838Human Services$29,000Arts & Culture$7,000Food & Nutrition$2,000International$2,000Religion$1,000Environment$500Health$100

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 budgetA Child's Hope International: $26,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCBMC INTERNATIONAL INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST FRUITS FARM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRODIGAL MINISTRIES INC DBA DESIGN AND INTENT MINISTRIES: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100 over 2y, 0.0% 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 A Child's Hope International ↗
  • Who funds CBMC INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds Eve Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds FIRST FRUITS FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds PRODIGAL MINISTRIES INC DBA DESIGN AND INTENT MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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.

Johnson Charitable Gi…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Johnson Charitable Gift FundOH13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Nesalis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nesalis Foundation. 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 26%
  • First Fruits Farm Inc: 26% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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