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Nurmi 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 $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $146k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $25,000 |
| BABY2BABY | $25,000 |
| MIRIAM'S KITCHEN | $20,000 |
| DON BOSCO CRISTO REY | $20,000 |
| ABRAMSON SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,600 |
| VISITATION SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| BAGLY | $10,000 |
| SIENA ACADEMY | $8,000 |
| SHEPHERD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WRITER'S CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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 +56% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 10 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, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k 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
- GPGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue +57%
- TFTHE FREDERICK B ABRAMSON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +37%
- BCBOTTOMLESS CLOSET2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- BBBuilding Bridges Across the Riverone grant, 2024 · $100k
- MHMARY HOUSE INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- UWUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTRYone grant, 2017 · $30k
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.
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
Mary's shelter is committed to empowering homeless youth by providing housing, education, and social service programs.
Martha's table works to support stronger children, stronger families, and stronger communities by increasing access to quality education programs, healthy food, and family supports.
House of ruth helps women, children and families in greatest need and with very limited resources to build safe, stable lives and achieve their highest potential. serving the district of columbia since 1976, house of ruth provides…
Doorways is a community-based nonprofit providing trauma-informed services including safe shelter, housing, and life-changing support to individuals and families experiencing the traumas of domestic violence, sexual assault, and…
Disrupt the cycle of poverty for single mothers and their children two generations at a time.
Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
Pathways kitchen helps justice-impacted youth thrive over survive by providing training, work opportunities and individualized support to ensure they can chart their own path forward
To provide safe housing, critical services, and ground-breaking programs to help homeless women and their children rebuild their lives.
Journey home's mission is to ensure a home for all. we believe the most powerful way to do this is collectively - by working together with service providers, elected officials, businesses, and local communities to end homelessness in the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundling and the most unlike its peers is ChemoCars Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 44 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 GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FREDERICK B ABRAMSON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDLING ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds BOTTOMLESS CLOSET ↗
- Who funds OPEN CITY ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUND OFF ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN FAMILY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds EMBARC INC ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds The Villages of Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Together We Bake ↗
- Who funds ChemoCars Inc ↗
- Who funds Friendship Place ↗
- Who funds HORTON'S KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds BAGLY INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS PERSONS REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Writers Center ↗
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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Nurmi 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.
- Bagly Inc — 39% of income from government
- The Writers Center — 6% of income from government
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.
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