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Nuveen Benevolent Trust Charles L Michod Jr

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$111k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of NUVEEN BENEVOLENT TRUST CHARLES L MICHOD JR’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
$2,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NUVEEN COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS$35,000
SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE$35,000
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN$5,000
NEW CANAAN LAND TRUST$5,000
VERMONT LAW SCHOOL$5,000
ST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS$5,000
ABILIS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
FSH SOCIETY$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT$2,000
LINCOLN PARK ZOO$1,000
WILLIAMS COLLEGE$1,000
BOCA GRANDE DISASTER FUND CO BOCA GRANDE UNITED METHODIST CHUCH$1,000
BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION$1,000
SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITY LAB$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FSH SOCIETY: $3k → 8%ST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $5k → 17%NUVEEN COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $35k → 15%RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $5k → 14%VERMONT LAW SCHOOL: $5k → 9%ST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $6k → 14%AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $5k → 17%NUVEEN COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $35k → 15%RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $5k → 14%ST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $4k → 17%NUVEEN COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $35k → 15%RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $5k → 14%ST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $4k → 17%NUVEEN COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $35k → 15%RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $5k → 14%ST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $3k → 17%NUVEEN COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $35k → 15%RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $5k → 14%ST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $5k → 14%NUVEEN COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $35k → 15%RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $5k → 14%LAKE GEORGE LAND CONSERVANCY: $4k → 10%ST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $5k → 14%NUVEEN COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $30k → 15%RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $5k → 14%ST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $5k → 14%NUVEEN COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $30k → 15%RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $5k → 14%NEW CANAAN LAND TRUST: $10k → 9%SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE: $35k → 14%NEW CANAAN LAND TRUST: $5k → 9%SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE: $35k → 14%SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE: $35k → 14%SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE: $35k → 14%SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE: $35k → 14%SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE: $35k → 14%SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE: $35k → 14%SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE: $35k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - DIVINITY SCHOOL: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - DIVINITY SCHOOL: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - DIVINITY SCHOOL: $4k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - ORIENTAL INSTITUTE (EPIGRAPHIC SURVEY): $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - ORIENTAL INSTITUTE (EPIGRAPHIC SURVEY): $3k → 14%ABILIS: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
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RI
CA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$874k · 24 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against -49% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
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Total granted

$874k
$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
-49%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthEnvironmentAnimalsPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +42%
  • VL
    Vermont Law School
    8× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +69%
  • FS
    FSHD SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • GI
    GASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -49%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc

The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…

Environment
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech
9
Florence Griswold Museum Inc

The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
10
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE — $280,000 · OtherSCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTENUVEEN COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $270,000 · OtherNUVEEN COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTSST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS — $46,000 · OtherST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDSNEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC — $25,000 · Other+11 more — $115,750 · Other+11 moreRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN — $40,000 · EducationRHODE ISLA…Vermont Law School — $22,500 · EducationVermont La…ST PAUL'S SCHOOL — $8,000 · EducationST PAUL'S …Williams College — $8,000 · EducationWilliams C…FSHD SOCIETY — $18,500 · HealthRehabilitation Institute of Chicago — $7,000 · HealthABILIS INC — $5,000 · HealthLake George Land Conservancy Inc — $14,000 · EnvironmentGASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN — $1,000 · EnvironmentLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $9,500 · AnimalsBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC — $8,000 · PhilanthropyThe Lake George Association Inc — $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$736,750Education$78,500Health$30,500Environment$15,000Animals$9,500Philanthropy$8,000Arts & Culture$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC — $25,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetVermont Law School — $22,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFSHD SOCIETY — $18,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLake George Land Conservancy Inc — $14,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $9,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL — $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College — $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC — $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $7,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago — $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetABILIS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fund for Lake George Inc — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Lake George Association Inc — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
  • Who funds NEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC
  • Who funds Vermont Law School
  • Who funds FSHD SOCIETY
  • Who funds Lake George Land Conservancy Inc
  • Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL
  • Who funds Williams College
  • Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC
  • Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
  • Who funds ABILIS INC
  • Who funds The Fund for Lake George Inc
  • Who funds The Lake George Association Inc
  • Who funds GASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN

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.

WK Kellogg FoundationMI13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: WK Kellogg Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Nuveen Benevolent Trust Charles L Michod Jr 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 14%
  • Abilis Inc74% of income from government
  • Vermont Law School14% of income from government
  • Williams College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Nuveen Benevolent Trust Charles L Michod Jr?

Find your warmest path to Nuveen Benevolent Trust Charles L Michod Jr 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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