How much did NIB FOUNDATION grant in FY2018?

NIB FOUNDATION reported 28 grants totaling $2,670,000 in its FY2018 IRS filing.

NIB FOUNDATION

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NIB FOUNDATION

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$2.7M

Granted FY2018

Grants

Communities

$560k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2018 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

Under $10k6 grants · $28k
$10k–50k15 grants · $327k
$50k–250k3 grants · $410k
$250k+4 grants · $1.9M

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

JOFFREY BALLET$560,000
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO$550,000
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE$495,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA$300,000
AUDITORIUM THEATRE OF ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY$200,000
PAWS$150,000
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER$60,000
MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$45,000
RUTH PAGE CIVIC BALLET OF CHICAGO$40,000
BALLET CHICAGO$40,000
MUSIC THEATER WORKS$37,000
REAL CRUZAN CATS$35,000
CEDILLE RECORDS$25,000
ENSEMBLE ESPAGNOLE$15,000
CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$15,000

02The need

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 99% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

Felines Inc

Providing a safe and loving shelter to cats and dogs until their permanent adoptive home is found.

Animals

Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture

Cat Guardians

Cat Guardians, Inc. is a nonprofit organization designed to help with the feline overpopulation and homelessness problem in Du Page County, Illinois. Cat Guardians provides proper medical, and sustenance needs and loving care to these…

Animals

Animal Partisan Inc

Animal Partisan, Inc. is organized for the purposes of conducting legal advocacy on behalf of animals subjected to cruelty and exploitation.

Animals

Stray Paws Rescue

Our organization believes it is our moral responsibility to protect and improve the lives of rescued animals and place them in loving permanent homes in st. louis metro.

Animals

Spay Neuter Illinois Pet Society Nfp

The Organization offers low cost spay and neuter services to price conscious families and animal shelters in Illinois.

Animals

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

Opera Theatre's mission is to shape a vibrant future for opera by connecting, inspiring, and entertaining our communities; to foster the next generation; and to make opera accessible and inclusive.

Arts & Culture

Always & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary

To care for unwanted abandoned or surrendered dogs and cats and place them in suitable homes or care for them for rest of their days

Animals

Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra

Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra's mission as a professional orchestra is to utilize the universal expression of music to create profound, inspiring, and personal connections between the people and communities of Chicagos Southland.

Arts & Culture

Performing Animal Welfare Society

Providing shelter and a permanent home for abused, abandoned and retired exotic animals.

Animals

Sante Dor Foundation

Sante DOr is a no-kill animal adoption center serving the Los Angeles community, predominantly staffed by volunteers.

Animals

Stray Rescue of St Louis

To rescue stray animals in need of medical attention, restore them to health, and place them in homes.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc and the most unlike its peers is Real Cruzan Cats. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/13

Grantees still filing

10/13

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$1,367,000Other$1,033,000Animals$210,000Environment$60,000

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.

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · 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 organisation NIB 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

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1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: REAL CRUZAN CATS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 814059184 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on REAL CRUZAN CATS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 60% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Nib Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Nib Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

NIB FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Nib Foundation?

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NIB FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Nib Foundation?

More from the funding graph