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Nightingale Family Foundation at a glance

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Nightingale Family 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.

$51k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

51% of Nightingale Family Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Charities Aid Foundation America, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’17
3
’18
3
’19
1
’20
3
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

International$615kArts & Culture$93kEnvironment$69kEducation$15kPhilanthropy$996
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$26,000
NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART$15,000
THE GRABHORN INSTITUTE$5,000
FRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NORTHERN SIERRA PARTNERSHIP: $15k → 8%THE GRABHORN INSTITUTE: $5k → 10%FRACTURED ATLAS: $8k → 17%CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $200k → 9%NORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $26k → 10%ST PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $8k → 13%NORTHERN SIERRA PARTNERSHIP: $14k → 8%CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $186k → 9%NEVADA HUMANITIES: $13k → 10%CASTILLEJA SCHOOL: $13k → 8%CAF AMERICA: $151k → 9%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NEVADA: $996 → 10%CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $26k → 9%NORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $26k → 10%NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: $18k → 10%NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: $15k → 10%NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: $13k → 10%NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: $13k → 10%THE DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $3k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%FRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS: $30k → 10%FRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS: $5k → 10%FRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 71% of Nightingale Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Nightingale Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$178k · 4 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +199% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$178k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+199%
+35%

Still filing today

75%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • NM
    Nevada Museum of Art
    4× · 2017–2022 · $58k · revenue +199%
  • NN
    NORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $52k · revenue +320%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS
    3× · 2018–2022 · $40k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • CS
    CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +46%
  • NH
    NEVADA HUMANITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +30%
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · 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.

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.

1
University of Nevada Alumni Association

The Nevada Alumni Association is here to foster and cultivate a common bond of pride, affinity and connection among alumni, students, prospective students and friends of the University of Nevada, Reno through quality programs, services and…

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2
Northeastern Nevada Historical Soci

Northeastern nevada historcial society is dedicated to the preservation of the hertitage, culture, and natural history of northeastern nevada. our ongoing goals are to establish a western art center and nourish the western culture that…

Arts & Culture
3
Nevada Public Radio

Nevada public radio will enhance the quality of life and foster civic engagement by informing, education and inspiring our growing audiences.

Arts & Culture
4
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
5
Unlv Research Foundation

The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the purposes of supporting, promoting, and reporting research activities at the university of nevada, las vegas, as an entity of the board of regents of the nevada system of…

Science & Tech
6
North Dakota State University Foundation

Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.

Education
7
University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that raises and manages private funds for the benefit of UNLV. Our mission is to increase philanthropic support for the university, grow its endowment for…

Education
8
Nevada Women's Fund

Nevada women's fund's mission is to empower women through education and career advancement opportunities, ultimately strengthening our community by ensuring that women face no barriers to achievement.

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9
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
10
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
11
Natural History Institute

Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…

Arts & Culture
12
Museum of Northwest Art

The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nevada Humanities Inc; the most unlike its peers is Grabhorn Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $563,702 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA+1 more: $996 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $51,655 · OtherNORTHERN NEVADA INTE…FRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS: $40,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF NEVADA WI…Individual grant recipient: $28,750 · OtherIndividual grant rec…NEVADA HUMANITIES INC: $12,500 · OtherNEVADA HUMANITIES IN…ST PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $7,500 · Other+1 more: $2,500 · OtherNevada Museum of Art: $57,500 · Arts & CultureNevada Mus…FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $8,279 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED …GRABHORN INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureGRABHORN I…CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $13,000 · EducationUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation: $2,000 · Education
Philanthropy$564,698Other$142,905Arts & Culture$70,779Education$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $563,702 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNevada Museum of Art: $57,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $51,655 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS: $40,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEVADA HUMANITIES INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $8,279 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRABHORN INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Northern Nevada: $996 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Community Foundation …Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Northern NevadaNV15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Nightingale Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nightingale Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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