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Raymond Nordquist and Evelyn Nordquist

Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$167k
Granted FY2019
12
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$78k
Largest
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 2019.

Religion$120kEducation$63kRecreation & Sports$50kHuman Services$11kFood & Nutrition$2kCommunity Improvement$2kArts & Culture$1kEnvironment$1k
02FY2019 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k9 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $128k
$1,550
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POOR CLARES OF PERPETUAL ADORATION$77,774
STARK ATHLETIC ENHANCEMENT CORP$50,000
ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH$25,392
EMMAUS HOUSE$5,000
REGINA COELI ST JOSEPH SCHOOL$2,000
WEST BRANCH SCHOOLS$1,550
ST THOMAS AQUINAS HIGH SCHOOL$1,000
BEECH CREEK BOTANICAL GARDEN$1,000
SAINT PETER CHURCH$1,000
VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA CHP 157$1,000
ERIK FRANK HARRIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$500
ALLIANCE AREA ULSTER PROJECT$300
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JERUSALEM EVANGELICAL LUTHERNAL CHURCH: $600 → 7%STARK ATHLETIC ENHANCEMENT CORP: $50k → 13%WEST BRANCH SCHOOLS: $2k → 19%ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $25k → 13%WEST BRANCH SCHOOLS: $2k → 19%REGINA COELI ST JOSEPH SCHOOL: $3k → 13%REGINA COELI ST JOSEPH SCHOOL: $2k → 13%REGINA COELI ST JOSEPH SCHOOL: $2k → 13%ALLIANCE FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 13%ALLIANCE AREA ULSTER PROJECT: $1k → 13%ALLIANCE HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 13%BEECH CREEK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1k → 13%VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA CHP 157: $1k → 13%ERIC FRANK HARRIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%ERIK FRANK HARRIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%ALLIANCE AREA ULSTER PROJECT: $300 → 13%SAINT PETER CHURCH: $10k → 13%SAINT PETER CHURCH: $1k → 13%ST THOMAS AQUINAS HIGH SCHOOL: $20k → 13%ST THOMAS AQUINAS HIGH SCHOOL: $11k → 13%EMMAUS HOUSE: $5k → 13%POOR CLARES OF PERPETUAL ADORATION: $78k → 13%ST THOMAS AQUINAS HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 13%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.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$54k · 5 repeat orgs$195k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$54k
$34k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Recreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • ST
    ST THOMAS AQUINAS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $32k
  • SP
    SAINT PETER CHURCH
    2× · 2018–2019 · $11k
  • RC
    REGINA COELI ST JOSEPH SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $6k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $19k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $11k
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOOD PANTRY
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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
04the grantee network

2 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
1/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POOR CLARES OF PERPETUAL ADORATION: $77,774 · OtherPOOR CLARES OF PERPETUAL ADORATIONST THOMAS AQUINAS: $31,987 · OtherST THOMAS AQUINASST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $25,392 · OtherST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $19,160 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $11,454 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAINT PETER CHURCH: $11,000 · OtherSAINT PETER CHURCH+10 more: $21,125 · Other+10 moreSTARK ATHLETIC ENHANCEMENT CORP: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsSTARK ATHLETIC ENHANCE…Botanical Garden Association Inc: $1,000 · Environment
Other$197,892Recreation & Sports$50,000Environment$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBotanical Garden Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds STARK ATHLETIC ENHANCEMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds Botanical Garden Association Inc ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Raymond Nordquist and Evelyn Nordquist funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Raymond Nordquist and Evelyn Nordquist. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Raymond Nordquist and Evelyn Nordquist 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 18 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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