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Nimick Forbesway 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.4MEducation$1.9MEnvironment$1.4MHealth$670kAnimals$618kReligion$600kPhilanthropy$460kScience & Tech$332kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $311k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $957k
$35,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$200,000
TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$116,667
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
MADISON CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC$75,000
ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC$65,000
LITERACY NETWORK INC$50,000
FORWARD THEATER COMPANY$50,000
ROCK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC$50,000
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH$50,000
ST PAULS SCHOOL$50,000
ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC$50,000
MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC$50,000
UPSTREAM POLICY INSTITUTE INC$50,000
PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$35,000
GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC$31,000
02The need
03

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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DON'T STOP DREAMIN': $10k → 9%MADISON AREA FOOD PANTRY GARDENS: $50k → 10%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $25k → 11%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $25k → 11%FAMILYLINKS: $40k → 11%CENTRO HISPANO INC: $50k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of Nimick Forbesway Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 43% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 40%.

Nimick Forbesway Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.8% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.8M · 64 repeat orgs$975k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

64 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
28

Total granted

$9.8M
$740k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+8%

Still filing today

77%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • CI
    CARNEGIE INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $715k · revenue +57%
  • INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $608k · revenue +57%
  • HS
    HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
    5× · 2019–2023 · $600k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -21%
  • CH
    CENTRO HISPANO INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • MA
    Madison Area Food Pantry Gardens
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +6%
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.

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Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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2
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
3
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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4
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
7
Zoological Society of Pittsburgh

The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…

Animals
8
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
9
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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10
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.

Recreation & Sports
11
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aldo Leopold Nature Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Thomas Paine Historical Association. 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

73 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. 73 of the 99 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/73
Grantees still filing
53/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $714,647 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE INSTITUTEHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $600,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSY…ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC: $359,974 · Arts & CultureARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INCTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $355,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION…FORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION: $250,000 · Arts & CultureFORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATIONMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $225,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCTHOMAS PAINE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $160,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $155,000 · Arts & CultureALLEGHENY CEMETERY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $150,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $125,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $410,000 · Arts & Culture+6 morePROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D OF C: $300,000 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDA…SHELDON CALVARY CAMP: $300,000 · OtherSHELDON CALVARY CAMPTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $280,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTETRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $233,334 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITYNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $175,000 · Other+53 more: $2,272,100 · Other+53 moreWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $400,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNI…ST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $250,000 · EducationST PAUL'S SCHO…THE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH: $205,000 · EducationTHE CHILDREN'S…MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · EducationMADISON PUBLIC…THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $110,000 · EducationTHE NEIGHBORHO…MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 · EducationMADISON PUBLIC…LITERACY NETWORK INC: $100,000 · EducationLITERACY NETWO…+3 more: $67,500 · EducationCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATIO…GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC: $163,000 · EnvironmentGROUNDSWELL…Rock Creek Conservancy Inc: $150,000 · EnvironmentRock Creek …LOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $145,000 · EnvironmentLOYALHANNA …PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentPENNSYLVANI…THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $95,000 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMON…WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $70,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN PEN…Upstream Policy Institute Inc: $50,000 · EnvironmentALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $608,000 · Animals+1 more: $10,000 · AnimalsTHE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $400,000 · PhilanthropySHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100,000 · HealthRISE WISCONSIN INC: $50,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$3,504,621Other$3,560,434Education$1,362,500Environment$1,073,000Animals$618,000Philanthropy$400,000Health$300,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $714,647 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $608,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $600,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $400,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC: $359,974 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $355,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION: $250,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $225,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH: $205,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC: $163,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetTHOMAS PAINE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $160,000 over 4y, 58% of budgetMADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $155,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetRock Creek Conservancy Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetALLEGHENY CEMETERY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $150,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetSHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetLOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $145,000 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC: $115,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $110,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHE FRED ROGERS COMPANY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLITERACY NETWORK INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $100,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGHENY CEMETERY: $100,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $95,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL LINKS: $93,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPittsburgh Botanic Garden: $80,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPORCHLIGHT INC: $75,600 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMONROE STREET ARTS CENTER: $75,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetST EDMUND'S ACADEMY: $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDENT CONFERENCES INC: $55,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMadison Area Food Pantry Gardens: $50,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetOPERATION FRESH START INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHERN TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetFORWARD THEATER COMPANY: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetRISE WISCONSIN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUpstream Policy Institute Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% 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.

Madison Community Fou…The Evjue Foundation …Madison Gas and Elect…Endres Manufacturing …Hillman Family Founda…The Pittsburgh Founda…Green Bay Packers Fou…Richard King Mellon F…Alliant Energy Founda…Trustage Foundation I…Ascendium Education S…The Oscar Rennebohm F…
Madison Community FoundationWI52.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc

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 Nimick Forbesway Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nimick Forbesway Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 60%
  • Rock Creek Conservancy Inc: 60% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Nimick Forbesway Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Nimick Forbesway 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 99 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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