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Nyholm Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$500
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Animals$13kEnvironment$4kHealth$3kSocial Science$2kHuman Services$1kReligion$700Public Safety & Disaster$600Housing & Shelter$525Other$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$200
Median grant
14
States reached
$141k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Jude's Children's Research Hospital$500
ASPCA$500
World Wildlife Fund$500
Jane Goodall Institute$400
Defenders of Wildlife$350
International Fund for Animal Welfare$250
Tiger Haven$250
Save the Chimps$250
Wisconsin Humane Society$250
International Wolf Center$250
Milwaukee Rescue Mission$250
Salvation Army$250
Noah's Lost Ark$200
African Wildlife Foundation$200
Humane Society of the United States$200
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%International Wolf Center: $250 → 11%Nature Conservancy: $150 → 12%Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind: $150 → 7%Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod: $200 → 5%Wisconsin Humane Society: $250 → 17%Jane Goodall Institute: $400 → 9%Habitat for Humanity: $25 → 22%Noah's Lost Ark: $200 → 19%International Wolf Center: $250 → 11%Nature Conservancy: $150 → 12%Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind: $150 → 7%Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod: $200 → 5%Wisconsin Humane Society: $250 → 17%Jane Goodall Institute: $400 → 9%Noah's Lost Ark: $200 → 19%International Wolf Center: $250 → 11%Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind: $150 → 7%Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod: $150 → 5%Wisconsin Humane Society: $250 → 17%Jane Goodall Institute: $400 → 9%International Wolf Center: $250 → 11%Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind: $150 → 7%Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod: $150 → 5%Milwaukee Rescue Mission: $250 → 17%Jane Goodall Institute: $400 → 9%Milwaukee Rescue Mission: $250 → 17%Wisconsin Lutheran College: $100 → 17%Wisconsin Lutheran College: $100 → 17%Wisconsin Lutheran College: $100 → 17%Wisconsin Lutheran High School: $100 → 17%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

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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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$24k · 32 repeat orgs$500 to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against -55% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
4

Total granted

$24k
$400

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
-55%

Still filing today

63%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’24
AnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    4× · 2019–2024 · $2k · revenue +60%
  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $2k · revenue +47%
  • DO
    Defenders of Wildlife
    4× · 2019–2024 · $1k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • DD
    Doris Day Animal League
    one grant, 2019 · $150 · revenue -55%
  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Society
    4× · 2019–2024 · $125
  • SO
    Special Olympics of Wis
    one grant, 2019 · $100

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
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
2
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
3
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
4
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
5
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
6
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
7
Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals
8
Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals
9
International Snow Leopard Trust

The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…

Animals
10
For the Fishes

To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…

Animals
11
The International Dark-Sky Association Inc

Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.

12
Dazzle Africa

Dazzle africa's mission is to partner with local organizations to provide programs in conservation, education and community development. the organization aims to ensure that future generations are self-sufficient and iconic african…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 backsteadyWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Land Conservation Organizat…Cancer Support OrganizationsPregnancy Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and Adoption
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 60 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%66%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%63%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%0/30
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,535

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

27 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. 27 of the 37 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
23/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

St Jude's Children's Research Hospital — $1,700 · OtherSt Jude's Children's Research HospitalJane Goodall Institute — $1,600 · OtherJane Goodall InstituteSave the Chimps — $900 · OtherSave the ChimpsHumane Society of the United States — $800 · OtherHumane Society of the United StatesWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD — $700 · OtherWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNODNational Humane Education Society — $600 · OtherNational Humane Education SocietyGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC — $600 · OtherGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INCAmerican Red Cross — $600 · OtherAmerican Red CrossIndividual grant recipient — $550 · OtherSalvation Army — $500 · OtherMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION — $500 · OtherNational Parks Conservation Society — $400 · Other+7 more — $1,100 · Other+7 moreTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $2,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF C…Defenders of Wildlife — $1,200 · AnimalsDefenders of WildlifeINTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER — $1,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTERTIGER HAVEN INC — $1,000 · AnimalsTIGER HAVEN INCINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $1,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INCAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $800 · AnimalsAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $750 · AnimalsWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETYNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $600 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $600 · AnimalsAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATIONNOAH'S LOST ARK INC — $400 · Animals+1 more — $300 · AnimalsWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,800 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE …THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $600 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS …OCEAN CONSERVANCY — $500 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVAN…NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $400 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBO…+1 more — $100 · EnvironmentGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $600 · Human ServicesMARCH OF DIMES INC — $400 · Health
Other$10,550Animals$9,650Environment$3,400Human Services$600Health$400

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 budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife — $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTIGER HAVEN INC — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC — $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNOAH'S LOST ARK INC — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC — $300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDoris Day Animal League — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $100 over 2y, 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 THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
  • Who funds Defenders of Wildlife
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER
  • Who funds TIGER HAVEN INC
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC
  • Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
  • Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY
  • Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC
  • Who funds NOAH'S LOST ARK INC
  • Who funds WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC
  • Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC
  • Who funds Doris Day Animal League
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED

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.

Baird Foundation IncWI12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving 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 Nyholm Family Foundation Inc 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Nyholm Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Nyholm Family Foundation Inc 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 37 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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