Illinois · 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.
- $70k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $151
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $38,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $149k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Nuessen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $70k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $43k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $48k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $29k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $50k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $34k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $31k | 61% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $11k | 72% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quincy University Corporation | $204,320 | 8 | 0% |
| Great River Development Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Down Country | $6,800 | 4 | 3% |
| Gofundmeorg | $1,396 | 3 | 0% |
| Madonna House | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mississippi Valley Council Inc Boy Scouts of America | $700 | 4 | 0% |
| Quincy Public Schools Foundation | $600 | 3 | 0% |
| Quincy Art Center | $550 | 2 | 0% |
| Quincy Humane Society | $500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $350 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 99 recipients with no EIN on record ($89k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nuessen Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Nuessen Family Foundation
- How much does Nuessen Family Foundation give?
- Nuessen Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $69,706 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Nuessen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Religion (14%), Employment (8%).
- Who are Nuessen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Quincy University Corporation ($204k), Great River Development Foundation ($25k), Down Country ($7k).
- Does Nuessen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nuessen Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nuessen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Quincy Area, The Jw Gardner II Foundation, Michelmann Foundation.
- Where is Nuessen Family Foundation based?
- Nuessen Family Foundation is based in IL.
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