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Nisbet Family Foundation Tr

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.

$14k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$150
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,600
Organizations funded a year
11 to 14
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$65k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Nisbet Family Foundation Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $440 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$14k36%
FY202414$9k29%
FY202313$8k46%
FY202214$6k79%
FY202111$2kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$13kEducation$9kHealth$9kHuman Services$5kArts & Culture$1kCommunity Improvement$350Crime & Legal$100Food & Nutrition$100Other$0

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nisbet Family Foundation Tr supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEasterseals Arkansas: $7,277 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetXI Educational Foundation of Ar: $2,650 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetArkansas Council on Economic Education: $1,850 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Arkansas Foundation Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArkansas Repertory Theatre: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriendship Foundation Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKappa Sigma Endowment Fund: $260 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Arkansas Area Agency on Aging Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Arkansas Programs & Services: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhillips Fundamental Learning Center Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArkansas Foodbank: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis House Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Arbor Day Foundation: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · The Hussman Foundation · George H Dunklin Jr Charitable Foundation · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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Find your warmest path to Nisbet Family Foundation Tr 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.

About Nisbet Family Foundation Tr

How much does Nisbet Family Foundation Tr give?
Nisbet Family Foundation Tr reported 14 grants totaling $13,622 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Nisbet Family Foundation Tr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (33%), Education (24%), Health (23%).
Who are Nisbet Family Foundation Tr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Easterseals Arkansas ($7k), XI Educational Foundation of Ar ($3k), Arkansas Council on Economic Education ($2k).
Does Nisbet Family Foundation Tr fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Nisbet Family Foundation Tr accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Nisbet Family Foundation Tr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Riggs Benevolent Fund, Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And.
Where is Nisbet Family Foundation Tr based?
Nisbet Family Foundation Tr is based in AR.

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 37 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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