How much does Nespola Charitable Foundation give?

Nespola Charitable Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $90,995 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 39 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Nespola Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (32%), Animals (16%), Environment (8%).

Who are Nespola Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ($60k), American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation ($35k), Direct Relief ($31k).

Does Nespola Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Nespola Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Nespola Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.

Where is Nespola Charitable Foundation based?

Nespola Charitable Foundation is based in DE.

Nespola Charitable Foundation

Nespola Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Nespola Charitable Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$91k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$218kAnimals$110kEnvironment$53kEducation$47kInternational$34kFood & Nutrition$33kHuman Services$27kPublic Benefit$14kOther$0

02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k32 grants · $61k
$10k–50k2 grants · $30k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS	$20,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY - WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE	$10,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED	$8,995
ST ALBANS SCHOOL	$5,000
ISLAND HARVEST	$5,000
JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER	$5,000
THE FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH	$5,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION	$3,500
ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND	$3,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION	$3,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$2,500
DIRECT RELIEF	$2,500
HAMPTONS TAKE 2 DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL INC	$2,000
OUR CHILDREN HAVE RIGHTS ORG INC	$2,000
OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND	$1,000

02The need

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 (FY19–24, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$518k · 47 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

47 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$518k

$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+34%

Still filing today

74%

76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

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Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc
5× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +24%
DIRECT RELIEF
6× · 2019–2024 · $31k · revenue +67%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +99%

Funded once

NIAGARA UNIVERSITYgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +34%
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AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC
one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -17%
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ST PATRICKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
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.

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health

American Institute for Cancer Research

Aicr champions the latest and most authoritative scientific research from around the world on cancer prevention and survival through diet, weight and physical activity, so that we can help people make informed lifestyle choices to reduce…

Health

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Dr Gary Burnstein Community Health Clinic. 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

59 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. 59 of the 76 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

57/59

Grantees still filing

43/59

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$291,250Human Services$87,250Health$62,950Animals$35,450International$34,500Arts & Culture$32,500Environment$27,390

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

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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Nespola Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nespola Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

13report 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, 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home