· Private foundation
Nuessen Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| QUINCY UNIVERSITY | $38,000 |
| GREAT RIVER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,775 |
| ST FRANCIS CHURCH | $2,050 |
| UNITED WAY | $500 |
| DR RICHARD ELLS HOME | $250 |
| ST PETERS CHURCH | $200 |
| DOWN COUNTRY | $200 |
| GO FUND ME | $151 |
| QUINCY NOTRE DAME | $100 |
| BLESSING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $100 |
| BLESSING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $80 |
| ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN | $50 |
| QUINCY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $50 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +89% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- QUQUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION8× · 2017–2025 · $204k · revenue +47%
- DCDOWN COUNTRY4× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +385%
- GGOFUNDMEORG3× · 2023–2025 · $1k · revenue +279%
Funded once
- QCQUINCY CATHOLIC EDUCATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
- QCQUINCY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To build the university of the future with a strategy propelling us from our storied past toward an ambitious, inclusive & innovative future by preparing graduates as enlightened global citizens equipped for the challenges & opportunities…
The corporation shall receive and disburse funds, property and gifts of any kind exclusively for the benefit of the quincy humane society, inc., an illinois not-for-profit corporation, or its successor.
Serving our residents, their families, staff and the greater community through compassionate care.
To preserve and foster the traditions of quinsigamond community college.
To promote community development in the city of quincy and the surrounding areas.
Raise funds to provide scholarship grants for quincy college students.
The quincy telecommunications corporation inc. (qtc) was formed in 1996 to serve the communication needs of residents, educational institutions, governmental bodies and not-for-profit organizations in the city of quincy. it is charged with…
To support economic growth through numerous business development and tourism initiatives.
Education
To promote arts in the community
To provide a transformative, practical, and excellent liberal arts education that produces critical thinkers in an inclusive, diverse environment, guided by quaker testimonies of community, equality, integrity, peace, and simplicity and…
Promoting the historical significance of the city of quincy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quincy Art Center and the most unlike its peers is Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 137 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWN COUNTRY ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds MADONNA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds QUINCY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QUINCY ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds QUINCY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds QUINCY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE HOUSE OF QUINCY INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSING HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Quincy Area · The Jw Gardner II Foundation · Michelmann Foundation · Hofmeister Foundation · Marion G Jackson Char Tr · The Cfm Foundation · Kunes Family Foundation · Stillwell Foundation · Mother Dennis Foundation % Mercantile Bank Trust Services · United Way of Adams County Inc · The Lindsay Family Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Nuessen Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.