· Private foundation
Oscar & Ina Nystrom Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Morris County Hospital Foundation | $10,000 |
| Council Grove Life Center | $10,000 |
| Morris County Historical Society | $5,000 |
| Friends of Kaw Heritage | $4,000 |
| Morris County Care & Share | $3,700 |
| Building Blocks Community Childcare | $3,450 |
| Live Well Morris County | $3,000 |
| City of Council Grove-Washunga Committee | $3,000 |
| White Memorial Camp Management Group | $2,500 |
| Historic Preservation Corporation | $2,000 |
| Council Grove Community Theatre | $2,000 |
| Council Grove Community Arts | $2,000 |
| Community Mentoring Program | $1,500 |
| Council Grove Public Library | $1,250 |
| Morris County 4-H Council | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +26% since the first grant, against -45% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- CGCouncil Grove Life Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +20%
- WMWHITE MEMORIAL CAMP MANAGEMENT GROUP7× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +204%
- BBBuilding Blocks Community Child Care Inc3× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- KSKansas State Historical Foundation Incone grant, 2017 · $10k
- VOVoices of the Wind Peopleone grant, 2023 · $8k
- COCity of Council Grove-Santa Fe Trail 200one grant, 2020 · $5k
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 become a center for ranching heritage in the Flint Hills.
To provide funding to Scott County Hospital, Scott City, Kansas through independent fundraising activities.
To combat economic and physical deterioration of Plains KS through charitable social welfare activities and economic development projects that encourage job development and population stability.
Public charity
To preserve and protect museum artifacts of the south central area of oklahoma
Preservation study and collection of historical items
To restore and preserve historical structures and memorabilia
Support qualified charities and development of public projects in independence, kansas.
Preserve the history of stephens county oklahoma
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Council Grove Area Foundation and the most unlike its peers is White Memorial Camp Management Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 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.
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 Council Grove Life Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Council Grove Area Foundation ↗
- Who funds MORRIS COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITE MEMORIAL CAMP MANAGEMENT GROUP ↗
- Who funds Symphony in the Flint Hills Inc ↗
- Who funds Building Blocks Community Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC PRESERVATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC ↗
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: Arthur M & Ethel L Hylton Trust · Bill B Young Foundation · John E Trembly Foundation · Council Grove Area 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 Oscar & Ina Nystrom 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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