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Nord Family 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.

$6k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$38kHealth$16kRecreation & Sports$5kFood & Nutrition$4kArts & Culture$4kScience & Tech$4kEnvironment$3kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
5
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBIA COLLEGE$3,000
FRIENDS OF MIT CREW$300
FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL$300
MONO LAKE COMMITTEE$300
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATION$300
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$300
BREAD & ROSES$200
SJSU$200
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$200
KQED$200
NEW ROADS SCHOOL$200
CONSUMER REPORTS$130
AARP$100
GATEWAY SCHOOL$100
ACLU$100
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS OF MIT CREW: $500 → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY MED FUND: $1k → 8%MARINARTS BREAD & ROSES PRESENTS: $500 → 8%EAST BAY ROWING CLUB: $4k → 10%MONO LAKE COMMITTEE: $500 → 10%BARNARD COLLEGE: $2k → 17%PKD FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL: $500 → 14%FRIENDS OF THE MIT CREW: $500 → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $500 → 8%BREAD & ROSES: $300 → 8%EAST BAY ROWING: $1k → 10%MONO LAKE COMMITTEE: $300 → 10%BARNARD COLLEGE: $2k → 17%PKD FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL: $500 → 14%FRIENDS OF MIT CREW: $500 → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY MED FUND: $500 → 8%MONO LAKE COMMITTEE: $300 → 10%BARNARD COLLEGE: $1k → 17%FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL: $500 → 14%FRIENDS OF MIT CREW: $500 → 8%LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $300 → 8%MONO LAKE COMMITTEE: $300 → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL: $300 → 14%FRIENDS OF MIT CREW: $500 → 8%MONO LAKE COMMITTEE: $300 → 10%KQED: $1k → 10%COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $3k → 17%FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL: $300 → 14%FRIENDS OF MIT CREW: $300 → 8%KQED: $500 → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $500 → 17%FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL: $300 → 14%FRIENDS OF MIT CREW: $300 → 8%COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $3k → 17%FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL: $300 → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $3k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $3k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $3k → 17%COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $3k → 17%COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $3k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $3k → 17%COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $3k → 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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$66k · 25 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
6

Total granted

$66k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+12%

Still filing today

60%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesCivil 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

  • PF
    PKD Foundation
    2× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue +90%
  • BARNARD COLLEGE
    3× · 2018–2021 · $5k · revenue +16%
  • EB
    East Bay Rowing
    2× · 2020–2022 · $5k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • MB
    MARINARTS BREAD & ROSES PRESENTS
    one grant, 2018 · $500
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE MIT CREW
    one grant, 2017 · $500
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    one grant, 2017 · $500
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
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
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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6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Roads School; the most unlike its peers is East Bay Rowing. 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

18 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. 18 of the 33 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $20,500 · OtherCOLUMBIA COLLEGEPKD Foundation: $6,000 · OtherPKD FoundationALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $3,650 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKFRIENDS OF MIT CREW: $3,200 · OtherFRIENDS OF MIT CREWPLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATION: $3,150 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATIONUCSF: $2,000 · Other+11 more: $7,539 · Other+11 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $6,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA …BARNARD COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGEFrancis W Parker School: $3,250 · EducationFrancis W Parker SchoolTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,800 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF …THE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $750 · Education+2 more: $600 · EducationEast Bay Rowing: $4,500 · Recreation & SportsYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $400 · Recreation & SportsKQED INC: $3,050 · Arts & CultureBREAD & ROSES PRESENTS: $1,050 · Arts & CultureTHE MEDICAL LETTER INC: $500 · Arts & CultureTHE MONO LAKE FOUNDATION: $2,200 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $500 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $250 · Civil RightsAARP FOUNDATION: $200 · Human Services
Other$46,039Education$17,400Recreation & Sports$4,900Arts & Culture$4,600Philanthropy$2,700Civil Rights$250Human Services$200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPKD Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEast Bay Rowing: $4,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $3,650 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFrancis W Parker School: $3,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $3,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONO LAKE FOUNDATION: $2,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD & ROSES PRESENTS: $1,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL LETTER INC: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ROADS SCHOOL: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY SCHOOL: $200 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds PKD Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds East Bay Rowing ↗
  • Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
  • Who funds KQED INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MONO LAKE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BREAD & ROSES PRESENTS ↗
  • Who funds THE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL LETTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND ↗
  • Who funds NEW ROADS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AARP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAY SCHOOL ↗

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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Nord Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nord 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%10%20%30%40%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 · 0–40%
    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 33 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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