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Nesheim Family Foundation Inc

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.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$165kEducation$29kHuman Services$8kHealth$3kHousing & Shelter$1kPhilanthropy$1kInternational$450Crime & Legal$250Other$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$250
Median grant
8
States reached
$251k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUMEN CHRISTI CATHOLIC CHURCH$7,700
ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE$6,000
CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES INC$2,000
DIOCESE OF VENICE IN FLORIDA$1,000
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES SEMINARY$1,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$500
LIBERTY YOUTH RANCH$300
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$250
BOY'S TOWN$250
Individual grant recipient$250
ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL$250
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS$250
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$250
WOUNDED WARRIORS$250
VFW$150
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOY'S TOWN: $300 → 12%BOY'S TOWN: $300 → 12%BOY'S TOWN: $250 → 12%BOY'S TOWN: $240 → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $500 → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $500 → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $350 → 17%MR BOB'S UNDER THE BRIDGE: $200 → 6%MR BOB'S UNDER THE BRIDGE: $150 → 6%MR BOBS UNDER THE BRIDGE INC: $100 → 6%MR BOB'S UNDER THE BRIDGE: $100 → 6%HEART LOVE PLACE: $450 → 17%HEARTLOVE PLACE: $250 → 17%HEARTLOVE PLACE: $200 → 17%HEARTLOVE PLACE: $100 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$218k · 24 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
34

Total granted

$218k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+43%

Still filing today

38%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther

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

  • LITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1k · revenue +92%
  • FF
    Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1k · revenue +9%
  • HEARTLOVE PLACE INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $1k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • MF
    MACC FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $700
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +94%
  • DO
    DIOCESE OF VENICE IN FLORIDA
    one grant, 2021 · $400

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education
3
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
4
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…

Health
5
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
6
St Joseph's Health System Subordinate Group Return

We are committed to providing exceptional quality care which sustains and improves both individual and community health, with a special concern for those who are poor, vulnerable and underserved.

7
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…

Health
8
St Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s

To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…

Health
9
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
10
Loyola University Medical Center

We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.lumc is a member of loyola university health system and trinity…

Health
11
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
12
Edward W Sparrow Hospital

Improving the health of the people in our communities by providing quality, compassionate care to everyone, every time.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Inc Diocese of Madison and the most unlike its peers is Lenity Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChild and Family ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Wildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Veteran Support ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringPublic University Foundatio…Community Health CentersCancer Support Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr12%4%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr16%4%35–55yr19%65%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr20%37%10–20yr16%2%20–35yr16%0%35–55yr19%61%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
8%
3,022/36,498

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LUMEN CHRISTI CATHOLIC CHURCH — $122,950 · OtherLUMEN CHRISTI CATHOLIC CHURCHCURSILLO IN CHRISTIANITY OF THE ARC HDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE — $34,375 · OtherCURSILLO IN CHRISTIANITY OF THE ARC HDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEEIndividual grant recipient — $18,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+44 more — $16,682 · Other+44 moreCENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES INC — $25,950 · EducationCENTER FOR WO…LITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC — $1,350 · Education+3 more — $600 · EducationCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON — $2,350 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $1,090 · Human ServicesHEARTLOVE PLACE INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesLIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC — $700 · Human ServicesMR BOBS UNDER THE BRIDGE INC — $550 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $650 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $250 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC — $100 · HealthNORTHWOODS WILDLIFE CENTER — $250 · EnvironmentLenity Project Inc — $250 · Crime & LegalST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC — $100 · Housing & Shelter
Other$192,257Education$27,900Human Services$5,690Health$1,500Environment$250Crime & Legal$250Housing & Shelter$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES INC — $25,950 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON — $2,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC — $1,350 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $1,090 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLOVE PLACE INC — $1,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC — $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMR BOBS UNDER THE BRIDGE INC — $550 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWOODS WILDLIFE CENTER — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES INC
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON
  • Who funds LITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
  • Who funds HEARTLOVE PLACE INC
  • Who funds LIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds MR BOBS UNDER THE BRIDGE INC
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds NORTHWOODS WILDLIFE CENTER
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Lenity Project Inc

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.

Patrick & Marysue Michels Family FoundationWI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patrick & Marysue Michels Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Trusted Fraternal Life · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Nesheim 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Nesheim Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Nesheim Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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