How much does Nordemann Foundation give?

Nordemann Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $89,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Nordemann Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (31%), Food & Nutrition (12%), Health (12%).

Who are Nordemann Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($70k), International Rescue Committee INC ($69k), Feeding America ($54k).

Does Nordemann Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Nordemann Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Nordemann Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.

Where is Nordemann Foundation based?

Nordemann Foundation is based in NY.

Nordemann Foundation

Nordemann Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Nordemann Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$89k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$12k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$184kFood & Nutrition$72kHealth$71kEducation$47kHuman Services$37kArts & Culture$35kHousing & Shelter$20kRecreation & Sports$19kOther$0

02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k25 grants · $67k
$10k–50k2 grants · $22k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$539k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE	$12,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$10,000
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA	$8,000
FEEDING AMERICA	$8,000
Individual grant recipient	$6,500
INTO THE LOOKING GLASS-MEDI-COS	$5,000
FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE	$5,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND	$3,500
ST JUDES HOSPITAL	$3,000
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS	$2,700
AMERICARES	$2,500
Individual grant recipient	$2,500
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT	$2,500
HOLE IN THE WALL GANG	$2,500
COUSTEAU SOCIETY	$2,500

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

$571k · 40 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$571k

$17k

Still filing today

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterHealthOther

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

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +98%
IR
International Rescue Committee INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $69k · revenue +81%
Feeding America
8× · 2017–2024 · $54k · revenue +84%

Funded once

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MEDI-COS (CAREYES)-IN THE LOOKING GLASS
one grant, 2019 · $5k
IT
INTO THE LOOKING GLASS
one grant, 2023 · $5k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $4k

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.

International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International

Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International

Intrahealth International Inc

Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.

Health

Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment

MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech

Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc

For over 20 years, chai's mission has been to save lives and improve health outcomes in low-and middle-income countries around the world. we do this by enabling the government and private sector to strengthen and sustain quality health…

International

Alight

Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…

International

Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Huntington Fire Department. 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

24 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. 24 of the 47 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/24

Grantees still filing

21/24

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$236,300International$184,000Food & Nutrition$54,200Human Services$44,400Environment$30,700Housing & Shelter$20,300Recreation & Sports$19,000

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

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.

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.

Network for GoodDC9.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Nordemann Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nordemann Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get 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

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home