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Nipera Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$623k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$113k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$2.7MEnvironment$1.6MScience & Tech$265kInternational$126kEducation$32k
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $389k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $174k
$13,054
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COBALT INSTITUTE$112,520
Individual grant recipient$61,327
WCA ENVIRONMENT LIMITED$42,578
GRADIENT CORP$38,880
INTERNATIONAL ZINC ASSOCIATION$38,213
Individual grant recipient$30,435
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA$26,000
WCA ENVIRONMENTAL LTD$25,000
CSIRO COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRY RESEARCH ORGANISATION$25,000
WCA ENVIRONMENTAL LTD$24,765
Individual grant recipient$23,227
PT BURSON COHN WOLFE$22,272
EUROMETAUX$16,103
WINDWARD ENVIRONMENTAL LLC$15,000
CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES$14,260
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.

US giving: 55% of grant dollars ($2.6M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 45% that went abroad ($2.1M) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%GRADIENT: $55k → 8%GRADIENT CORP: $39k → 16%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANDFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $18k → 7%CARDNO CHEMRISK LLC: $14k → 10%CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES: $57k → 17%SKS CONSULTING SERVICES: $12k → 9%INTERNATIONAL ZINC ASSOCIATION: $45k → 11%APPLIED LIMNOLOGY PROFESSIONALS LLC: $10k → 7%CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES ASHLAND LLC: $757k → 11%WINDWARD ENVIRONMENTAL LLC: $43k → 9%CARDNO CHEMRISK LLC: $35k → 14%MUTCH ASSOCIATES: $10k → 7%PRODUCT SAFETY LABS: $32k → 8%BIORELIANCE CORPORATION: $34k → 8%GRADIENT CORP: $30k → 16%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANDFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $14k → 7%CARDNO CHEMRISK LLC: $11k → 10%CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES: $40k → 17%INTERNATIONAL ZINC ASSOCIATION: $43k → 11%CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES ASHLAND LLC: $345k → 11%WINDWARD ENVIRONMENTAL LLC: $39k → 9%PRODUCT SAFETY LABS: $16k → 8%BIORELIANCE CORPORATION: $34k → 8%GRADIENT CORP: $30k → 16%CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES: $14k → 17%INTERNATIONAL ZINC ASSOCIATION: $38k → 11%CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES ASHLAND LLC: $230k → 11%WINDWARD ENVIRONMENTAL LLC: $25k → 9%PRODUCT SAFETY LABS: $16k → 8%CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES: $10k → 17%RTI INTERNATIONAL: $16k → 11%CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES ASHLAND LLC: $138k → 11%WINDWARD ENVIRONMENTAL LLC: $24k → 9%PRODUCT SAFETY LABS: $14k → 8%SOLID WASTE AND CHEMICALS MANAGEMENT CENTER: $28k → 17%RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 11%CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES ASHLAND LLC: $41k → 11%WINDWARD ENVIRONMENTAL LLC: $16k → 9%RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 11%CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $27k → 11%WINDWARD ENVIRONMENTAL LLC: $15k → 9%RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 11%CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES ASHLAND LLC: $14k → 11%WINDWARD ENVIRONMENTAL LLC: $15k → 9%CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $11k → 11%WINDWARD ENVIRONMENTAL LLC: $13k → 9%WINDWARD ENVIRONMENTAL LLC: $12k → 9%KENNON CRAVER PLLC: $11k → 11%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
NM
NC
GA
FL

Beyond the US: 45% of all-years giving ($2.1M)

10 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$778k · 42 grants
Belgium$533k · 37 grants
Canada$373k · 18 grants
China$150k · 5 grants
Sweden$138k · 4 grants
Australia$56k · 3 grants
New Caledonia$51k · 3 grants
Indonesia$23k · 2 grants
Singapore$10k · 1 grant
Germany$1k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
$4.3M · 35 repeat orgs$400k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
20

Total granted

$4.3M
$187k

Still filing today

9%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • CR
    CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES ASHLAND LLC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.5M
  • WE
    WCA ENVIRONMENT LIMITED
    5× · 2020–2024 · $529k
  • WE
    WINDWARD ENVIRONMENTAL LLC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $225k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • SW
    SOLID WASTE AND CHEMICALS MANAGEMENT CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $28k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $24k
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 65 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES ASHLAND LLC: $1,532,838 · OtherCHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES ASHLAND LLCWCA ENVIRONMENT LIMITED: $529,212 · OtherWCA ENVIRONMENT LIMITEDWINDWARD ENVIRONMENTAL LLC: $224,865 · OtherGRADIENT: $153,880 · Other+59 more: $2,102,777 · Other+59 moreResearch Triangle Institute: $146,311 · Science & TechTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $31,500 · Education
Other$4,543,572Science & Tech$146,311Education$31,500

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 budgetResearch Triangle Institute: $146,311 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ZINC ASSOCIATION: $126,075 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $31,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSociety of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry: $22,500 over 3y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds Research Triangle Institute ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL ZINC ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Nipera Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nipera Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 65 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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