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nVent Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$608k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$246k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Philanthropy$1.0MEducation$518kYouth Development$517kEmployment$370kScience & Tech$204kArts & Culture$182kInternational$50kHuman Services$13k
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $436k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Blackbaud Giving Fund$246,470
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)$125,000
Rise Incorporated$65,000
The Works$15,000
Science Museum of Minnesota$15,000
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities$15,000
Boys and Girls Club of the Sandhills Inc$15,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio$15,000
Junior Achievement USA$10,000
Junior Achievement of Greater Baton Rouge and Acadianna$10,000
High Tech Kids$10,000
Rhode Island Computer Museum Inc$10,000
Envision Excellence in Stemeducation$10,000
Minnesota Computers for Schools$10,000
Genesys Works$10,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Leonardo's Basement: $5k → 11%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

NH
MN
MA
OH
PA
RI
CA
MO
VA
NC
SC
LA
TX

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 29 repeat orgs$419k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
21

Total granted

$1.5M
$284k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+13%

Still filing today

97%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalArts & CultureScience & TechEmploymentOther

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

  • RI
    RISE INCORPORATED
    4× · 2022–2025 · $260k · revenue +20%
  • SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $105k · revenue +47%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO
    5× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • BA
    Boys and Girls Club Greater Houston Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • PS
    Project Scientist Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +13%

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
Girls in Stem
Human Services
2
Connecting Stem Kids With the Future Inc
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3
Michigan Science Center

The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.

Education
4
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

—
5
Mentoring Youth Through Technology

To propel youth to thrive in a technology driven world.

Youth Development
6
Discovery World Ltd

Discovery World educates, motivates,mobilizes and inspires the innovators and entrepreneurs of the 21st century. We connect innovation, science, and technology with exploration, environment, and our Great Lakes freshwater resources through…

Education
7
Bestprep

To best prepare minnesota students with business, career and financial literacy skills through experiences that inspire success in work and life.

—
8
Ingenuityne Inc

Ingenuityne, inc. was formed to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster…

Youth Development
9
National Girls Collaborative

The national girls collaborative project believes science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (stem) skills can be acquired by anyone and fostered in everyone. our initiatives build confidence and create a community of "lifelong stem…

Youth Development
10
Out Teach

Out teach's mission is to inspire and prepare today's elementary students to explore the wonders of science and become tomorrow's innovators. out teach works to ensure that all studentsregardless of race, zip code, or access to…

Education
11
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
12
Digital Girl Incorporated

Digital Girl, Inc. (DGI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering the underserved youth of New York City, especially young girls, to pursue studies and careers in STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) disciplines.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement North and the most unlike its peers is Science Museum of Minnesota. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Mentoring ProgramsYouth Development CentersLocal History MuseumsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%40%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%14%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,518

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.

04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 54 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
27/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND — $844,399 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUNDUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $154,919 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDESCIENCE BUDDIES — $40,000 · PhilanthropySCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC — $105,000 · EducationSCIENCE FROM SCIENT…HIGH TECH KIDS — $54,500 · EducationHIGH TECH KIDSSTARBASE MINNESOTA INC — $45,500 · EducationSTARBASE MINNESOTA …DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $45,000 · EducationDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF…MINNESOTA COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS — $44,000 · EducationMINNESOTA COMPUTERS…ENVISION EXCELLENCE IN STEM EDUCATION INC — $37,000 · EducationENVISION EXCELLENCE…Techbridge Girls — $30,000 · EducationTechbridge GirlsKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationKIDS IN NEED FOUNDA…+9 more — $104,000 · Education+9 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS …Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentScientific Ad…CREATEMPLS — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentCREATEMPLSBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SANDHILLS INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc — $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and Girl…GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS O…+1 more — $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentRISE INCORPORATED — $260,000 · EmploymentRISE INCOR…Individual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual gra…Volunteers Of America Inc — $35,000 · OtherVolunteers Of …Boys and Girls Club Greater Houston Inc — $15,000 · OtherBlack Girls Do Engineer Corproation — $15,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH — $59,500 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVE…Junior Achievement of Greater Baton Rouge Inc — $40,000 · OtherJunior Achieve…Junior Achievement of Northern California — $35,000 · OtherJunior Achieve…Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc — $15,000 · Other+9 more — $55,600 · Other+9 moreSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA — $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WORKS — $49,000 · Arts & CultureRHODE ISLAND COMPUTER MUSEUM INC — $38,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BAKKEN — $20,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC — $14,000 · Arts & CultureFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) — $125,000 · Science & TechGREAT LAKES MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY — $50,000 · Science & Tech
Philanthropy$1,039,318Education$495,000Youth Development$356,500Employment$260,000Other$370,100Arts & Culture$196,000Science & Tech$175,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND — $844,399 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRISE INCORPORATED — $260,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $154,919 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) — $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC — $105,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO — $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA — $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES — $60,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO — $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH — $59,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHIGH TECH KIDS — $54,500 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetGREAT LAKES MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WORKS — $49,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSTARBASE MINNESOTA INC — $45,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetScientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls — $45,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCREATEMPLS — $45,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS — $44,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSCIENCE BUDDIES — $40,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Greater Baton Rouge Inc — $40,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMPUTER MUSEUM INC — $38,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetENVISION EXCELLENCE IN STEM EDUCATION INC — $37,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJunior Achievement of Northern California — $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTechbridge Girls — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SANDHILLS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BAKKEN — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetProject Scientist Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL MATH & SCIENCE INITIATIVE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE IS ELEMENTARY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC — $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCODED BY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS DREAM CODE — $8,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA - MINNESOTA — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEONARDO'S BASEMENT — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetST CLOUD TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCAMP FIRE MINNESOTA — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Hb Fuller Company Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …Boston Scientific Fou…The Richard M Schulze…Donaldson FoundationXcel Energy FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Mightycause Charitabl…Charities Aid Foundat…Fr Bigelow FoundationThe Nordson Corporati…
Hb Fuller Company FoundationMN28× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hb Fuller Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Boston Scientific Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Donaldson Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Nordson Corporation 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 nVent 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to nVent Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to nVent 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 54 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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