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Nyce 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.

$162k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
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.

Youth Development$320kHuman Services$130kInternational$75kHousing & Shelter$65kRecreation & Sports$60kReligion$60kEmployment$40kFood & Nutrition$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $120k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$860k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLOBAL REFUGE$20,000
LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES OF NE$15,000
MARGUERITES PLACE INC$15,000
THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS$15,000
INTNTL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND$15,000
YOUTH BUILD USA$10,000
SUMMER SEARCH BOSTON$10,000
LAWRENCE COMMUNITY WORKS$10,000
THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK$10,000
GATHER NEW HAVEN$9,000
SQUASH BUSTERS$5,000
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$5,000
CAPITOL SQUASH$5,000
SQUASH HAVEN INC$5,000
LAKES REGION CONSERVATION TRUST$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $251k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $15k → 16%MARGUERITES PLACE INC: $15k → 7%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $1k → 8%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $15k → 16%SQUASH HAVEN INC: $15k → 12%MARGUERITES PLACE INC: $15k → 7%SQUASH HAVEN INC: $10k → 12%MARGUERITES PLACE INC: $10k → 7%SQUASH HAVEN INC: $10k → 12%MARGUERITES PLACE INC: $5k → 7%SQUASH HAVEN INC: $10k → 12%MARGUERITES PLACE INC: $5k → 7%SQUASH HAVEN INC: $5k → 12%MARGUERITES PLACE INC: $5k → 7%SQUASH HAVEN INC: $5k → 12%SQUASH HAVEN INC: $5k → 12%SQUASH HAVEN INC: $5k → 12%SQUASH HAVEN INC: $5k → 12%FATHERS UPLIFT: $5k → 16%FATHERS UPLIFT: $5k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $15k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $15k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $12k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $12k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $11k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $10k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $10k → 16%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$770k · 19 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
4

Total granted

$770k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+20%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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 ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentEmploymentEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +101%
  • SH
    SQUASH HAVEN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +199%
  • SQUASHBUSTERS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • TM
    The MISS Foundation Mothers in Sympathy & Support
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -63%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • TC
    The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +20%
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
All Farmers Inc

We envision a food system that reflects the diverse communities of our region in leadership, ownership, and priorities. all farmers lowers barriers to enable refugee and immigrant farmers to grow resilient community farms through access to…

Food & Nutrition
2
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
3
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
4
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
5
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
6
Boston Architectural College

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

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7
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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8
United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc

Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.

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9
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
10
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
11
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
12
Achieve Now

Achieve now is a philadelphia-based social justice organization that sees literacy as a mechanism to effect social change. our mission is to provide k-2 school children in greater philadelphia with high-quality, culturally competent…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West End House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust 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

22 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. 22 of the 28 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $115,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INCSQUASH HAVEN INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesSQUASH HAVEN INCMARGUERITE'S PLACE INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesMARGUERITE'S PLACE INCFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Human Services+2 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesCALUMET LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES: $65,000 · OtherCALUMET LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIESLUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $60,000 · OtherLUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES OF NEW EN…GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE: $30,000 · OtherLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVIC…LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES: $20,000 · OtherLUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIESLAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC: $10,000 · Other+6 more: $27,000 · Other+6 moreCapitol Squash Inc: $60,000 · Recreation & SportsCapitol Squash…SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsSOCCER WITHOUT…WEST END HOUSE INC: $22,500 · Recreation & SportsWEST END HOUSE…SQUASHBUSTERS INC: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentSQUASHBUSTER…SOCIEDAD LATINA INC: $27,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOCIEDAD LAT…SUMMER SEARCH: $40,000 · EmploymentSUMMER SE…YOUTHBUILD GLOBAL INC: $30,000 · EmploymentYOUTHBUIL…INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $15,000 · Civil RightsTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $15,000 · Education
Human Services$253,500Other$272,000Recreation & Sports$107,500Youth Development$87,000Employment$70,000Civil Rights$15,000Education$15,000

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 HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $115,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSQUASH HAVEN INC: $70,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetSQUASHBUSTERS INC: $60,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCapitol Squash Inc: $60,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetMARGUERITE'S PLACE INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHBUILD GLOBAL INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIEDAD LATINA INC: $27,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWEST END HOUSE INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLakes Region Conservation Trust: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetE-MOTION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe MISS Foundation Mothers in Sympathy & Support: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children: $1,000 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.

Td Charitable Foundat…Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Boston Charitable Tru…The Klarman Family Fo…Jewish Communal FundThe Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…
Td Charitable FoundationME16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Td Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office · The Klarman Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 Nyce Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nyce Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge: 100% of income from government
  • Youthbuild Global Inc: 69% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Fathers Uplift Incorporated: 22% of income from government
  • Sociedad Latina Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc): 11% of income from government
  • Lawrence Communityworks Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Squash Haven Inc: 4% of income from government
  • West End House Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 Nyce Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Nyce 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 28 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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