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Nystrom 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $162k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rockport-Fulton Good Samaritans | $50,000 |
| Rockport-Fulton ISD Foundation Inc | $50,000 |
| Aransas County Council on Aging | $40,000 |
| Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute | $24,000 |
| Wings Rescue Center | $20,000 |
| Access Inc | $20,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Aransas County | $17,000 |
| Corpus Christi Chamber Music Society Inc | $15,000 |
| Rockport Cultural Arts District | $14,000 |
| Friends of Aransas National Wildlife Refuge | $12,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $427k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RGROCKPORT-FULTON GOOD SAMARINC8× · 2018–2025 · $217k · revenue +0%
- TATHE ARANSAS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING8× · 2018–2025 · $210k · revenue +25%
- RFROCKPORT FULTON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- AAAquarium At Rockport Harbor Incone grant, 2018 · $23k · revenue -75% · 53% of their budget
- RCROTARY CLUB OF ROCKPORTone grant, 2021 · $15k
- FOFRIENDS OF ARANSAS NATIONALone grant, 2023 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To ensure that the history of aransas county is perserved, showcased and celebrated through unique venues
Historical museum
Provide veterinary and shelter services for displaced and wayward animals in the township and outlying area of port aransas, texas.
To provide the general public with the rich heart of texas heritage
Preserve flatonias artifacts and history of the town
Foster a balance of conservation and economically sustainable uses for port aransas while recognizing dependence of community and economy on tourism
Operate a nutrician center providing meals and social interaction to the elderly
Management and operation of the arboretum.
We support our community by advocating for sensible development and leading the marketing of port aransas & mustang island
Humane animal shelter
Through unique collections, exhibitions, public programs and outreach in the visual arts, the mission of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas is to provide education, inspiration and creative visions throughout Southeast Texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockport Fulton Isd Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Corpus Christi Chamber Music Societyinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 23 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 ROCKPORT-FULTON GOOD SAMARINC ↗
- Who funds THE ARANSAS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT FULTON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute ↗
- Who funds WINGS RESCUE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Keep Aransas County Beautiful Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT CULTURAL ARTS DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds AIM HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ARANSAS COUNTY TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETYINC ↗
- Who funds Aquarium At Rockport Harbor Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM I ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FULTON MANSION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Coastal Bend Community Foundation · Margaret Sue Rust Foundation · Steps Foundation fka The Powers Private Foundation · Ed Rachal Foundation · 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 Nystrom Family 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.
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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