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Niswonger Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$27k
Granted FY2020
8
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182020.

Education$41kFood & Nutrition$41kYouth Development$8kCommunity Improvement$7kArts & Culture$6kPhilanthropy$3kPublic Benefit$2kEmployment$1k
02FY2020 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k7 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TENNESSEE$13,000
ANDREW JOHNSON HERITAGE ASSOCIATION$5,350
GREENE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP INC$2,750
TENNESSEE INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ASSOCIATION$2,000
THE DICTIONARY PROJECT$1,872
THE ARTHUR PROJECT$1,500
STREAMWORKS$500
GREENEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE ARTHUR PROJECT: $2k → 17%THE ARTHUR PROJECT: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$81k · 9 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

$81k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+32%

Still filing today

56%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
EducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN
    3× · 2018–2020 · $40k · revenue +70%
  • GC
    GREENE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $7k · revenue +6%
  • NP
    NISWONGER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER BOARD
    2× · 2018–2019 · $6k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • CC
    CARTER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
  • HC
    HANCOCK COUNTY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • CH
    CHEROKEE HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Greene County United Way Inc

To be clearly recognized as the most effective way to serve the most people through organizing voluntary efforts aimed at strengthening the Greene County community.

Philanthropy
2
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
3
Greener Partners

Greener partners' mission is to strengthen community health through urban farming, fresh food access, and food education. since our founding in 2008, we have partnered with schools and hospitals to address barriers to healthy food and to…

Environment
4
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
5
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project

To help local farms thrive, link farmers to markets and supporters, and build healthy communities through connections to local food.

Environment
6
Tennessee Clean Water Network

To identify, prevent, and remedy water pollution statewide through a network of allies and resources.

7
Strategic Twin-Counties Education Partnership

Step fosters a cross-sector collaborative to build a robust local talent pipeline. step connects the dots from cradle to career, ensuring that young people in nash and edgecombe counties are exposed to and fully prepared for the 21st…

Education
8
Harpeth Conservancy

To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.

Environment
9
Thrive Regional Partnership Inc

See schedule oto develop, implement and sustain a vision for responsible and inspired growth for the next four decades. through collaboration, communication, analytics and innovation, the thrive regional partnership will optimize community…

Public Benefit
10
Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville Inc

Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.

Crime & Legal
11
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…

12
Southeast Tn Rc&D Council

Plan and develop resource conservation and development programs

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Tennessee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rural Resources. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TENNESSEE INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ASSOCIATION — $14,500 · OtherTENNESSEE INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ASSOC…GREENE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP INC — $7,250 · OtherGREENE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP INCANDREW JOHNSON HERITAGE ASSOCIATION — $5,350 · OtherANDREW JOHNSON HERITAGE ASSOCIATIONCARTER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION — $4,000 · OtherCARTER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONHANCOCK COUNTY SCHOOLS — $3,062 · OtherHANCOCK COUNTY SCHOOLSELIZABETHTON CITY SCHOOLS — $3,000 · OtherELIZABETHTON CITY SCHOOLSTHE VAN WERT COUNTY FOUNDATION — $2,500 · OtherCHEROKEE HIGH SCHOOL — $2,087 · OtherTUSCULUM VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $2,000 · Other+12 more — $6,815 · Other+12 moreSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN — $40,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TNTHE DICTIONARY PROJECT — $5,652 · EducationSTREAMWORKS INC — $500 · EducationNISWONGER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER BOARD — $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTHUR PROJECT — $2,500 · Human ServicesLEADERSHIP TENNESSEE INC — $2,000 · Public BenefitRural Resources — $500 · Environment
Other$50,564Food & Nutrition$40,000Education$6,152Arts & Culture$6,000Human Services$2,500Public Benefit$2,000Environment$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREENE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP INC — $7,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNISWONGER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER BOARD — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DICTIONARY PROJECT — $5,652 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARTHUR PROJECT — $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VAN WERT COUNTY FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTREAMWORKS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRural Resources — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN
  • Who funds GREENE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP INC
  • Who funds NISWONGER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER BOARD
  • Who funds THE DICTIONARY PROJECT
  • Who funds THE ARTHUR PROJECT
  • Who funds THE VAN WERT COUNTY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP TENNESSEE INC
  • Who funds STREAMWORKS INC
  • Who funds Rural Resources

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Niswonger Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report 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, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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    How do I get to Niswonger Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Niswonger Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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