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Nislick Family Foundation at a glance

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Nislick Family Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k
Granted FY2020
18
Grants FY2020
7
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Philanthropy$2kHealth$1kInternational$800Food & Nutrition$336Civil Rights$326Education$320Religion$294Crime & Legal$250Other$0
02FY2020 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$80
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,200
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER - ETTA WEINHEIM FUND$500
HOUR CHILDREN$175
HILLEL INTERNATIONAL$172
MAZON A JEWISH RESPONSE TO HUNGER$105
WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS$104
CONCERT ARTIST GUILD$100
PINE STREE INN FOR THE HOMELESS$100
THE CITY COLLEGE FUND - ALUMNI ASSOC$80
WEST SIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER$53
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$50
AJWS - AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE$50
THE DOE FUND$50
PLANNED PARENTHOOD NYC$40
JCC OF FORT LEE$36
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $376) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD: $36 → 8%NAVOBA (NATIONAL VETERAN OWNED BUSINESS ASSOCIATION): $18 → 11%HOUR CHILDREN: $175 → 13%HOUR CHILDREN: $50 → 13%HOUR CHILDREN: $25 → 13%DOROT: $36 → 17%DOROT: $36 → 17%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

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
DC
AL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12k · 17 repeat orgs$634 to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
8

Total granted

$12k
$298

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+98%

Still filing today

53%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $336 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyInternationalCrime & LegalCivil RightsOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $720 · revenue +39%
  • HC
    HOUR CHILDREN INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $250 · revenue +16%
  • HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $208 · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • BB
    B'NAI B'RITH INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2018 · $50
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50 · revenue +98%
  • CA
    CHEBRA AGUDAS ACHIM CHESED SHEL EMETH HEBREW FREE BURIAL ASSOCIATIONINCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $36 · revenue +86%
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
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
2
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice Action Inc

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action or JFREJ) is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with our neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy for all of us.…

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3
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
4
City Harvest Inc

To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.

Food & Nutrition
5
Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services
6
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
7
The Jewish Federations of North America Inc

The federation movement protects and enhances the well-being of jews worldwide through the values of tikkun olam (repairing the world), tzedakah (charity and social justice) and torah (jewish learning). the jewish federations of north…

Philanthropy
8
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago

Juf provides critical resources that bring food, refuge, health care, education and emergency assistance to over 500,000 chicagoans of all faiths and millions of jews in israel and around the world, funding a network of 100+ agencies,…

Philanthropy
9
New York Immigration Coalition Inc

To unite immigrants, members and allies so all new yorkers can thrive.

—
10
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
11
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
12
The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life; the most unlike its peers is National Veteran Owned Business Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 32 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
18/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $7,778 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSMALL MISC CONTRIBUTIONS TO 501(C)3 CHARITIES: $1,075 · OtherSMALL MISC CONTRIBUTIONS TO 501(C)3 CHARITIESMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER - ETTA WEINHEIM FUND: $1,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER - ETTA WEINHEIM FUND+18 more: $1,488 · Other+18 moreNEW ISRAEL FUND: $500 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $250 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50 · InternationalUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $720 · PhilanthropyHOUR CHILDREN INC: $250 · Human ServicesDOROT INC: $72 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC DBA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MARTHA'S: $36 · Human ServicesNATIONAL VETERAN OWNED BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $18 · Human ServicesHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $208 · ReligionSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $150 · Crime & LegalTHE DOE FUND INC: $100 · Housing & Shelter
Other$11,341International$800Philanthropy$720Human Services$376Religion$208Crime & Legal$150Housing & Shelter$100

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 budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUR CHILDREN INC: $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITY COLLEGE FUND: $240 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $208 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $202 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConcert Artists Guild Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $78 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $72 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHEBRA AGUDAS ACHIM CHESED SHEL EMETH HEBREW FREE BURIAL ASSOCIATIONINC: $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJBI INTERNATIONAL INC: $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC DBA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MARTHA'S: $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $31 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL VETERAN OWNED BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $18 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Nislick Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nislick 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 32 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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