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Nesbitt 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAZARETH HOUSE | $200,000 |
| PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT | $200,000 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $200,000 |
| PACIFIC CLINICS | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| PASADENA SENIOR CENTER | $150,000 |
| UNITED FRIENDS OF THE | $125,000 |
| HELPING HANDS FOR THE BLIND | $100,000 |
| PASADENA MEALS ON WHEELS | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $90,000 |
| WOODCRAFT RANGERS INC | $90,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| FULFILLMENT FUND | $75,000 |
| JOURNEY HOUSE | $75,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against -72% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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
- GDGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT4× · 2020–2025 · $470k · revenue +84%
- PCPACIFIC CLINICS3× · 2023–2025 · $450k · revenue +38%
- PSPASADENA SENIOR CENTER4× · 2020–2025 · $255k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- FTFIND THE CHILDRENone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -72%
- ECEASTSIDE CENTER FOR THE BLINDone grant, 2020 · $20k
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 fid group is a not-for-profit that delivers social services to people in the greater pasadena area who are experiencing homelessness, food vulnerabilities, and poverty.
Pathlight partners with people with disabilities and their families to create opportunities to build relationships throughout their lives.
To provide quality educational and physical development programs for pre-kindergarten
The purpose of this corporation is to help people of all ages and walks of life build personal strengths needed to succeed in life, through operating challenging experiential learning courses and programs in school, urban and wilderness…
Women at work provides web-based job and career resource services with a mission to help women reach their full employment and earnings potential.
Rental apartments for low income seniors
To focus on the success of each student & involve parents in the education of their children. the school is comitted to providing appropriate physical space, materials, qualified personnel, and staff development in order to guide the…
To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
Jvs socal is a california nonsectarian nonprofit serving nearly 30,000 clients per year offering hope and opportunity to a diverse community through job training, mentoring and education, combined with expert career guidance and employer…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pasadena Educational Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Clinics. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 20 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 LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CLINICS ↗
- Who funds PASADENA SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds WOODCRAFT RANGERS ↗
- Who funds PASADENA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FIND THE CHILDREN ↗
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: The Rose Hills Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Nesbitt Foundation 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.