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Nottingham 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.

$4k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$6kFood & Nutrition$6kEnvironment$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kHuman Services$3kInternational$2kCommunity Improvement$2k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
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States reached
$75k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
K9s 4 COPS$4,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TOUCH THE NATIONS: $2k → 12%RADNOR TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT: $3k → 6%TURNING POINT FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 22%DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $2k → 14%HARLEM GROWN: $2k → 17%K9s 4 COPS: $4k → 22%BREAD FOR THE CITY: $3k → 14%FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $2k → 12%FEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS: $3k → 13%PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $3k → 22%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

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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 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.

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Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
2
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
3
Breedlove Foods Inc

Partnering globally to provide nutritious food to the world's most vulnerable.

Human Services
4
Pets for Patriots Inc

The organization's mission is to transform the lives of veterans by helping them save an at risk shelter dog or cat, and to end all animal homelessness in the us and enrich the lives of men and women who serve, and have served our country.…

Animals
5
Partners for Animal Welfare Society

Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.

Animals
6
Animals First Aid Nfp

Animals First Aid supports grassroots animal welfare groups worldwide by raising funds, sharing resources, and responding to urgent rescue and care needs.

Animals
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CAUSE4PAWS Pet Food Bank

Many seniors and veterans share their only meal of the day with their companion animals. we deliver pet food for these precious animals so they can remain at home or with their person and not have to be surrendered to shelters.

Animals
8
Humane Pennsylvania Foundation

To encourage and motivate the making of gifts and donations by deed, will, or otherwise, for the advancement, promotion, extension, and maintenance of the various causes and objectives fostered by the humane pennsylvania.

Animals
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Humane Pennsylvania

Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.

Animals
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Chain of Hope Kc

Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.

Animals
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The Pet Fund

The Pet Fund pays for veterinary care for those who cannot afford it for low-income individuals and families.

Animals
12
Defenders of Animal Rights Inc

Animal rescues. pet adoption center. shelter cruelty victims. farm animals. wildlife refuge. spay/neuter. humane education. youth work. grief counseling. human health via pets.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless; the most unlike its peers is Touch the Nations. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TURNING POINT FOR CHILDREN: $2,750 · OtherTURNING POINT FOR CHILDRENRADNOR TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT: $2,750 · OtherRADNOR TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICTFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $2,000 · OtherFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITU…FEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS: $2,750 · AnimalsFEEDING PETS OF THE HOME…PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $2,750 · AnimalsPHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELF…K9S4COPS INC: $4,000 · Public Safety & DisasterK9S4COPS INCHARLEM GROWN INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentHARLEM GROWN INCTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $2,000 · EnvironmentTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT…BREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $2,750 · Food & NutritionBREAD FOR TH…Touch the Nations: $2,000 · International
Other$7,500Animals$5,500Public Safety & Disaster$4,000Environment$4,000Food & Nutrition$2,750International$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $2,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS: $2,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $2,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM GROWN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTouch the Nations: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $2,000 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 Nottingham Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nottingham Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Nottingham Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Nottingham Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 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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