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NORMA and PHILIP NISCO FAMILY FOUNDATION at a glance

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NORMA and PHILIP NISCO FAMILY FOUNDATION

$13k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Food & Nutrition$16kReligion$6kHealth$505International$378Education$155Public Safety & Disaster$150Youth Development$10Other$0
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $565
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$410
Median grant
3
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD FOR THE POOR$12,218
HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH$410
HEART OF THE NATION CHURCH$120
SACRED HEART LEAGUE$35
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $50 → 16%GIRLS BOYS TOWN: $10 → 12%PBS SO CAL: $75 → 10%SCRIPPS HEALTH SERVICES: $30 → 11%WORLD EMERGENCY RELIEF: $25 → 14%ST RITA'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $35 → 18%The Franciscan Friars of the Atonem: $40 → 6%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $120 → 11%CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD: $20 → 17%MERCY SHIPS: $45 → 12%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $23 → 14%FOOD FOR THE POOR: $12k → 13%PARKINSON FOUNDATION: $70 → 15%FEEDING AMERICA: $25 → 14%OUR LADY OF THE OZARKS: $660 → 13%HEART OF THE NATION CHURCH: $130 → 17%NATIONAL SHRINE SAINT JUDE: $25 → 14%SACRED HEART SPIRITUAL SOCIETY: $92 → 10%St Anthony's Guild: $10 → 7%PROJECT HOPE: $15 → 7%NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER: $25 → 8%CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ORANGE: $500 → 10%WORLD EMERGENCY RELIEF: $25 → 14%ST RITA'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $20 → 18%GIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $10 → 17%MERCY SHIPS: $25 → 12%FOOD FOR THE POOR: $4k → 13%PARKINSON FOUNDATION: $35 → 15%HEART OF THE NATION CHURCH: $120 → 17%SACRED HEART SPIRITUAL SOCIETY: $44 → 10%St Anthony's Guild: $10 → 7%NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER: $25 → 8%HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH: $2k → 10%UNICEF: $28 → 17%MERCY SHIPS: $20 → 12%FOOD FOR THE POOR: $25 → 13%HEART OF THE NATION CHURCH: $60 → 17%SACRED HEART SPIRITUAL SOCIETY: $12 → 10%HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH: $902 → 10%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE MISSION: $30 → 17%HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH: $610 → 10%HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH: $410 → 10%HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH: $215 → 10%SAINT TIMOTHY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $50 → 10%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $25 → 10%SACRED HEART LEAGUE: $90 → 10%SACRED HEART LEAGUE: $35 → 10%LA PURISIMA CATHOLIC CHURCH: $100 → 10%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
WI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
MS
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22k · 16 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
21

Total granted

$22k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+76%

Still filing today

50%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’21’22’23
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $200 · revenue +145%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2017–2022 · $150 · revenue +46%
  • FI
    FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $115 · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • OL
    OUR LADY OF THE OZARKS
    one grant, 2018 · $660
  • CD
    CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ORANGE
    one grant, 2021 · $500
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $120 · revenue +83%
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
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
2
Americares Foundation Inc

Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).

International
3
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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4
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation

Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…

Health
5
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
6
Charity Global Inc

Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.

Human Services
7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
9
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
10
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
11
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
12
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc; the most unlike its peers is World Emergency Relief. 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

14 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. 14 of the 37 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $16,043 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC+7 more: $328 · InternationalHOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH: $4,137 · OtherHOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCHOUR LADY OF THE OZARKS: $660 · OtherOUR LADY OF THE OZARKSCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ORANGE: $500 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ORANGEHEART OF THE NATION CHURCH: $310 · Other+19 more: $930 · Other+19 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $105 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $50 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $38 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $150 · Human ServicesSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $120 · Education
International$16,371Other$6,537Health$393Human Services$150Education$120

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $16,043 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $115 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $105 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $90 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD EMERGENCY RELIEF: $50 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $38 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $28 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $15 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $10 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.

  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds WORLD EMERGENCY RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization NORMA and PHILIP NISCO FAMILY FOUNDATION funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from NORMA and PHILIP NISCO 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of 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 · 0–25%
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 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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