· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BLESSING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $100 |
| QUINCY NOTRE DAME | $100 |
| BLESSING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $80 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50 |
| QUINCY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $50 |
| ILLINI WEST HIGH SCHOOL | $50 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nuessen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nuessen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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