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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 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, FY2019 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Science Museum of Minnesota$15,000
Boys and Girls Club of the Sandhills Inc$15,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio$15,000
The Works$15,000
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities$15,000
Junior Achievement USA$10,000
Rhode Island Computer Museum Inc$10,000
Junior Achievement USA$10,000
Envision Excellence in Stemeducation$10,000
High Tech Kids$10,000
Junior Achievement of Greater Baton Rouge and Acadianna$10,000
Great Lakes Museum of Science Environment and Technology$10,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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
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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
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

  • 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
  • JA
    Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +112%
  • SI
    SCIENCE IS ELEMENTARY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -11%
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
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.

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement North; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS …BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…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 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 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 & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO: $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $60,000 over 5y, 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 budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetScientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls: $45,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCREATEMPLS: $45,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetMINNESOTA COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS: $44,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetJunior Achievement of Greater Baton Rouge Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSCIENCE BUDDIES: $40,000 over 3y, 1.1% 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 budgetJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSCIENCE IS ELEMENTARY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetProject Scientist Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL MATH & SCIENCE INITIATIVE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCODED BY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% 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
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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    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

    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 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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