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Nextdoor 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.

$361k
Granted FY2025still arriving
89
Grants FY2025still arriving
29
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of Nextdoor Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 89 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k87 grants · $143k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $219k
$1,500
Median grant
29
States reached
$295k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NYC NEXT INC$150,000
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA$68,500
NATIONAL VOLUNTEER FIRE COUNCIL INC$5,000
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$5,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY$3,333
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$3,333
TEXSAR INC$3,333
CHURCHVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INCORPORATED$1,500
BATH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC$1,500
AVOCA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,500
BELMONT FIRE PROTECTION DISTRIC INC$1,500
UNITED COMMUNITIES VOL FIRE DEPT INCORPORATED ROMA$1,500
NIVERVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT INC$1,500
NEWMANSVILE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC$1,500
BIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,500
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 (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOORES MILL NORTH-CENTRAL MADISON COUNTY VOLUNTEER: $2k → 11%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

AK
NH
ID
IL
WI
NY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
TX

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 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.

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Taylor Township Volunteer Fire Department
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2
Burnsville Volunteer Fire Department

Mission for burnsville vfd burnsville wv the burnsville vfd provides fire protection fire safety and emergency rescue services to the citizens in its designated area. bvfd serves in a safe efficient manner serving all stakeholders.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Central Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Knifley Area Volunteer Fire Department
Public Safety & Disaster
5
Claylick Volunteer Fire Department
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6
Bakersville Volunteer Fire Company of Jefferson Township

Volunteer fire department.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Waterfront Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Littleton Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide fire and rescue services to the citizens of our fire district

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Winchester Volunteer Fire Department

to prevent the loss of life and to control or reduce the loss of property by applying all of our knowledge and resources.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Nelsonville Volunteer Fire Dept
Arts & Culture
11
Kinsey Volunteer Fire Dept

Volunteer fire dept

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12
Valley View Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer Fire Department that responds to service calls to extinguish fires or help with medical emergencies in the area.

Public Safety & Disaster

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ashburn Volunteer Fire and Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Nyc Next Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%11%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%41%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%46%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%34%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 46% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/85
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,480

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

72 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. 72 of the 182 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/72
Grantees still filing
29/72
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NYC NEXT INC — $150,000 · OtherNYC NEXT INC+114 more — $81,500 · Other+114 moreLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTEXSAR INC — $3,333 · Public Safety & Disaster+59 more — $88,500 · Public Safety & Disaster+59 moreCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $68,500 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDA…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC — $3,333 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,500 · PhilanthropyWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $3,333 · InternationalLONG GREEN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC — $1,500 · Public BenefitMOORES MILL NORTH CENTRAL FIRE — $1,500 · Human Services
Other$231,500Public Safety & Disaster$96,833Philanthropy$73,333International$3,333Public Benefit$1,500Human Services$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNYC NEXT INC — $150,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $68,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Volunteer Fire Council Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEESEYTOWN COMMUNITY FIRE CO — $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEly Volunteer Fire Department Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGLEN GARDNER FIRE COMPANY NO 1 A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBATH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRound Hill Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEAST PETERSBURG FIRE COMPANY NO 1 — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNewmansville Volunteer Fire Department — $1,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPREBLE VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTING ASSOC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetADELL-WHITT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHURCHVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELSANOR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT & RESCU RESCUE UNIT INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASHBURN VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLINE VOL FIRE DEPT INC — $1,500 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetLOGANVILLE FIRE COMPANY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWEST STAFFORD FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAvoca Volunteer Fire Department — $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLVFD INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFANNIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAVOCA FIRE & RESCUE DEPARTMENT — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTERLING VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAINBRIDGE FIRE COMPANY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTRI-COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHEATON VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARPER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLONG GREEN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChoctaw Volunteer Fire Dept Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetROSTRAVER CENTRAL VOLUNTEER FIRE CO — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOWINGS MILLS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Firehouse Subs Public…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Amazonsmile FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation IncFL19.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Nextdoor 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Nextdoor Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Nextdoor Foundation 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 182 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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