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NSTS Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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NSTS Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Youth Development$76kHousing & Shelter$30kEducation$28kReligion$23kHuman Services$14kRecreation & Sports$7kFood & Nutrition$6kHealth$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$500
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Habitat for Humanity Lake County$10,000
Bed Ministry of Saint Joseph$10,000
Youth Conservation Corps$10,000
Banzai Inc$9,995
Siena Catholic Schools of Racine$5,000
Just for Kids$5,000
College of Lake County$5,000
Saint Joseph Food Pantry$5,000
Faith Lutheran Church$2,000
A Safe Place$1,100
Nicasa Behavioral Health Services$1,000
Waukegan Historical Society$1,000
St Jude Childrens Research Hospital$600
Plainfield Lions Charities$500
Benedictine Sisters$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Hospice Alliance: $1k → 10%Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Northern Illinois: $5k → 6%Cunningham Childrens Home: $500 → 19%Special Recreation Association of Central Lake County: $3k → 8%Special Recreation Association of Central Lake County: $3k → 8%Fill a Heart 4 Kids: $300 → 8%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

ME
IL
WI
MI
UT
MD
KS
TN
GA
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$87k · 9 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$87k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+37%

Still filing today

44%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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

  • SR
    SPECIAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL LAKE COU
    3× · 2022–2024 · $4k · revenue +59%
  • LC
    LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +24%
  • NN
    NICASA NFP
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • BM
    Bed Ministry of St Joseph
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • CC
    CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -6%
  • HA
    HOSPICE ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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
Community Care Health Plan Inc

Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.

Health
2
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center

The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.

Crime & Legal
3
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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4
Community Health Partnership of Illinois

Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.

Health
5
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
6
Heartland Community Health Clinic D/B/a Heartland Health Services

Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.

Health
7
Ageguide Northeastern Illinois Area On Aging

We strive to make aging easier through the development of a network of services for older persons designed to optimize the quality of their lives.

Food & Nutrition
8
Racine Kenosha Community Action Agency Inc

Stabilizing lives by providing supportive programs and access to community resources for individuals and families.

Human Services
9
Community Shares of Illinois

Community shares of illinois represents a diverse group of charitites with a common mission, to make our world a better place. whether your passion is women's issues, protecting children, helping animals, promoting health care or curbing…

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10
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
11
Casa Central Social Services Corporation

Casa central drives change by empowering individuals and families to thrive - delivering impactful services that transform lives and uplift communities.

Human Services
12
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kenosha Literacy Council. 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

26 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. 26 of the 41 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
13/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BANZAI INC: $19,990 · OtherBANZAI INCYouth Conservation Corp: $18,000 · OtherYouth Conservation CorpSIENA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS OF RACINE INC: $10,000 · OtherSIENA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS OF RACINE INCBed Ministry of St Joseph: $10,000 · OtherBed Ministry of St JosephBed Ministry of Saint Joseph: $10,000 · OtherBed Ministry of Saint JosephJust for Kids: $9,000 · OtherJust for KidsCollege of Lake County Scholarship: $7,000 · OtherCollege of Lake County ScholarshipCollege of Lake County: $5,000 · OtherSaint Joseph Food Pantry: $5,000 · Other+16 more: $11,170 · Other+16 moreHABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR…CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSPECIAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL LAKE COU: $4,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesCUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL: $500 · Human Services+3 more: $750 · Human ServicesYOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS: $10,000 · EnvironmentNORTH CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $600 · PhilanthropyPLAINFIELD LIONS CHARITIES INC: $500 · PhilanthropyST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $600 · HealthMAN UP TO CANCER: $250 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $120 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $100 · HealthKENOSHA LITERACY COUNCIL: $535 · Education
Other$105,160Housing & Shelter$15,000Human Services$11,250Environment$10,000Philanthropy$1,100Health$1,070Education$535

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKE COUNTY: $15,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSPECIAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL LAKE COU: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNICASA NFP: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WAUKEGAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOSPICE ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKENOSHA LITERACY COUNCIL: $535 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPLAINFIELD LIONS CHARITIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $120 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.

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.

AbbVie FoundationBaxter International …The Lake County Commu…John and Kathleen Sch…First Bank Chicago Fo…Trustmark FoundationThe Chicago Community…Lee Family FoundationUnited Way of Lake Co…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …The Gorter Family Fou…
AbbVie FoundationIL25.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · The Lake County Community Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Trustmark Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Lee Family Foundation · United Way of Lake County Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Gorter Family 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 NSTS Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from NSTS Charitable Foundation Inc. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report 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, 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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How do I get to NSTS Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to NSTS Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 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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