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Nuance Foundation Inc at a glance

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Nuance Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$819k
Granted FY2021
24
Grants FY2021
11
States reached
$593k
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, FY2017 to 2021.

Employment$1.4MHealth$828kScience & Tech$456kEducation$231kHuman Services$158kPublic Safety & Disaster$150kSocial Science$67kYouth Development$59kOther$0
02FY2021 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $210k
  • $250k+1 grant · $593k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS EMPLOYEE MATCHING PROGRAM - DETAILS UPON REQUEST$593,198
THE COOPER FOUNDATION$30,000
ORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCH$10,000
WOUNDER WARRIOR PROJECT$10,000
BERNARD J TYSON IMPACT FUND (AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION)$10,000
THE CANADIAN RED CROSS$10,000
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION$10,000
CHINESE FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION$10,000
THE ALS ASSOCIATION MASS CHAPTER$10,000
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS$10,000
THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND$10,000
PFLAG INC$10,000
PAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION$10,000
TECHQUERIA$10,000
THE TREVOR PROJECT INC$10,000
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.

US giving: 85% of grant dollars ($2.9M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 15% that went abroad ($533k) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILDREN'S HARBOR: $2k → 13%WOUNDER WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $10k → 17%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $10k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 16%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
NY
MA
NV
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 15% of all-years giving ($533k)

3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Canada$420k · 4 grants
Netherlands$67k · 1 grant
United Kingdom$46k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 8 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
48

Total granted

$1.6M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+58%

Still filing today

50%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21
HealthEducationHuman ServicesScience & TechPhilanthropyCivil 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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +38%
  • DM
    DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $25k · revenue +57%
  • THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC
    2× · 2018–2021 · $11k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL
    one grant, 2017 · $400k
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • LV
    LAS VEGAS VICTIMS' FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
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
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
4
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
5
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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6
Mount Sinai Health System Inc

The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Human Services
7
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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8
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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9
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
10
Humc Medical Observation Pa

To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.

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11
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…

Health
12
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tampa General Hospital Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Las Vegas Victims' Fund. 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

44 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. 44 of the 74 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
36/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS EMPLOYEE MATCHING PROGRAM - DETAILS UPON REQUEST: $1,409,002 · OtherNUANCE COMMUNICATIONS EMPLOYEE MATCHING PROGRAM - DETAILS UPON REQUESTUNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL: $400,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MONTREALRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $100,000 · OtherLAS VEGAS VICTIMS' FUND: $100,000 · Other+35 more: $759,690 · Other+35 moreBanner Health Foundation: $27,716 · HealthBanner Heal…OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthOCHSNER CLI…YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $25,000 · HealthYALE NEW HA…Rush University Medical Center: $25,000 · HealthRush Univer…MARCH OF DIMES INC: $25,000 · HealthMARCH OF DI…TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthTAMPA GENER…MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $25,000 · HealthMONTEFIORE …Sharp Healthcare Foundation: $25,000 · HealthSharp Healt…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $25,000 · HealthVanderbilt …DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $25,000 · HealthDUKE UNIVER…NATIONAL PANCREAS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthNATIONAL PA…BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $20,000 · HealthBOSTON MEDI…EMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Health+4 more: $35,000 · Health+4 moreTHRIVE SCHOLARS: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationThurgood Marshall College Fund: $10,000 · EducationHIRE HEROES USA INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE BOSTON BRIDGES INITIATIVE INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE MALALA FUND: $5,000 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE HCA HOPE FUND: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesTECHNOVATION: $50,000 · Science & TechNational Society of Black Engineers: $10,000 · Science & TechDISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $25,007 · Arts & CultureTREVOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsChinese for Affirmative Action: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Other$2,768,692Health$342,716Education$135,000Human Services$97,500Science & Tech$60,000Arts & Culture$25,007Civil Rights$20,000

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 budgetTECHNOVATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COOPER FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBanner Health Foundation: $27,716 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $25,007 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSSM HEALTH FOUNDATION - ST LOUIS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HCA HOPE FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PANCREAS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY NAME MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Society of Black Engineers: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPFLAG: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHIRE HEROES USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTECHQUERIA: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE BOSTON BRIDGES INITIATIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC: $9,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MALALA FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS HARBOR INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC: $1,000 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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Analog Devices Founda…Renaissance Charitabl…Boston Foundation IncTides FoundationAbbVie FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY13× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment 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 Nuance Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nuance Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Discovery Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Legal Services Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
7report 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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Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Nuance Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Nuance 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 74 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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