· Private foundation
Nielsen-Massey Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $25,000 |
| COMMON THREADS | $25,000 |
| WATERAID AMERICA INC | $15,000 |
| GRAMEEN FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH - NO KID HUNGRY | $10,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $10,000 |
| HEALTHY SCHOOLS CAMPAIGN | $10,000 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| PILOT LIGHT | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE OF LAKE COUNTY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DC CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| PROJECT HARAMBEE | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR CULINARY ARTS KENDAL COLLEGE TRUST | $7,500 |
| FARESTART | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against -43% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CTCOMMON THREADS7× · 2017–2023 · $125k · revenue +12%
Feeding America7× · 2017–2023 · $95k · revenue +84%- WAWATERAID AMERICA INC5× · 2017–2023 · $90k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INCone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue -43%
- WAWAYLAND ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +15%
CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +43%
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.
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.
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
Together with communities, foodcorps serves to connect kids to healthy food in schools.
Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.
Through philanthropy, empower current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health.
We empower food service programs and school districts to make food delicious, nourishing, and responsible through our evidence-based certification program. We provide education and support that inspires students, schools, and communities…
Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
The greater chicago food depository is the nonprofit food bank serving cook county. our mission - is to end hunger. we believe food is a basic human right. to achieve our mission, we work in partnership with a network of community-based…
Foundation for food and agriculture research connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.
Food alliance works at the juncture of science, business and values to define and promote sustainability in agriculture and the food industry, and to ensure safe and fair working conditions, humane treatment of animals, and careful…
To harness the power of food innovation and markets to make the global food system better for the planet, people, and animals by supporting efforts to make alternative proteins accessible, affordable, and delicious.
How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMON THREADS ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds WATERAID AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Healthy Schools Campaign ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds WAYLAND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GRAMEEN FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds ANOTHER ROUND ANOTHER RALLY ↗
- Who funds PILOT LIGHT ↗
- Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds College of Lake County Foundation ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE FOOD LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds RESTAURANT WORKERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FROM HUNGER ↗
- Who funds ICING SMILES Inc ↗
- Who funds ANGELIC ORGANICS LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CULINARY ARTS ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD ↗
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.
Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nielsen-Massey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nielsen-Massey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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