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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.

$164k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
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 2025.

Education$271kHuman Services$220kHousing & Shelter$115kEnvironment$100kCrime & Legal$50kEmployment$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kReligion$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $146k
$10,600
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BABY2BABY$25,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $25k → 17%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $20k → 14%VILLAGES OF HOPE: $15k → 11%GOOD FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%TOGETHER WE BAKE: $10k → 9%GOOD FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%Good Foundation: $20k → 17%GOOD FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%SHEPHERD FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%GOOD FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%GOOD FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $10k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $10k → 17%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
OH
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$301k · 9 repeat orgs$621k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
25

Total granted

$301k
$482k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+38%

Still filing today

78%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • GF
    GOOD FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue +57%
  • AS
    ABRAMSON SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +37%
  • SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • BB
    Building Bridges Across the River
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • MH
    Mary House
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTRY
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
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
Marrakech Inc

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…

Employment
2
Mary's Shelter

Mary's shelter is committed to empowering homeless youth by providing housing, education, and social service programs.

Human Services
3
Martha's Table Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
4
House of Ruth

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…

Housing & Shelter
5
Doorways for Women and Families Inc

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…

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6
Jeremiah Program

Disrupt the cycle of poverty for single mothers and their children two generations at a time.

Housing & Shelter
7
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
8
Women Against Abuse Inc

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…

Human Services
9
Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health
10
Pathways Kitchen

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

Crime & Legal
11
Women in Need Inc

To provide safe housing, critical services, and ground-breaking programs to help homeless women and their children rebuild their lives.

Human Services
12
Journey Home Inc

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundling; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 44 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Building Bridges Across the River: $100,000 · OtherBuilding Bridges Across the RiverABRAMSON SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherABRAMSON SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONMary House: $50,000 · OtherMary HouseVISITATION SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherVISITATION SCHOOLUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTRY: $30,000 · OtherDON BOSCO CISCO REY: $25,000 · OtherTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $25,000 · OtherBABY2BABY: $25,000 · OtherANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC CHURCH: $25,000 · Other+21 more: $230,900 · Other+21 moreGOOD FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Human ServicesGOOD FOUNDATIONTHE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE NEW YORK FOUNDLINGSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES: $20,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIESMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $20,000 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S KITCHENBOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $20,000 · Human ServicesBOTTOMLESS CLOSETVILLAGES OF HOPE: $15,000 · Human ServicesVILLAGES OF HOPETOGETHER WE BAKE: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $25,000 · InternationalOPEN CITY ADVOCATES: $20,000 · Crime & LegalEMBARC INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentSound Off Inc: $20,000 · Public BenefitMONTESSORI SCHOOL OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA: $15,000 · EducationWASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $1,000 · Education
Other$605,900Human Services$215,000International$25,000Crime & Legal$20,000Youth Development$20,000Public Benefit$20,000Education$16,000

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 budgetGOOD FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetABRAMSON SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetMary House: $50,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTHE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN CITY ADVOCATES: $20,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMBARC INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSound Off Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJUBILEE HOUSING INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMONTESSORI SCHOOL OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHEMOCARS: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHOMELESS PERSONS REPTESENTATION PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDSHIP PLACE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHORTON'S KIDS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAGLY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTOGETHER WE BAKE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSHEPHERD FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWRITER'S CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…William S Abell Found…Clark-Winchcole Found…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Nurmi Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nurmi Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • Bagly Inc: 39% of income from government
  • The Writers Center: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Nurmi Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Nurmi Family Foundation 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 44 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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