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Steve Nash Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$227k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$194k
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 2024.

Education$506kYouth Development$352kHuman Services$94kCrime & Legal$43kCivil Rights$25kCommunity Improvement$23kPhilanthropy$7k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $194k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$503k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT$193,872
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY$20,000
LITTLE ESSENTIALS$13,000
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 (FY20–24, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KIDANGO: $10k → 10%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $26k → 20%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $20k → 20%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $10k → 17%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $15k → 20%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $13k → 20%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
LA
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$934k · 9 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
17

Total granted

$934k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+29%

Still filing today

44%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SH
    SOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED
    5× · 2020–2024 · $347k · revenue +7%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (THIRTY MILLION WORDS)
    2× · 2017–2018 · $200k
  • TC
    TMW CENTER FOR EARLY LEARNING
    3× · 2020–2023 · $135k

Funded once

  • P1
    PS 107
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
  • KI
    Kidango Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +173%
  • EA
    EDUCARE ARIZONA
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Start Early

Start early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap.

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2
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
3
The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families Inc

The organization is dedicated to combining education and advocacy to expand opportunities for children and families in order to strengthen the voice of the latino community based on the belief that the most effective way to support latino…

Human Services
4
The Campbell Institute

Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.

Unclassified
5
Dc Bilingual Public Charter School

The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.

Education
6
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
7
Educare Dc

Educare dc's mission is to eliminate the opportunity gap for young children living in poverty and give them the skills necessary for success in kindergarten and beyond. we work at the intersection of practice, policy, and research to…

Human Services
8
Briya Public Charter School

Briya pcs is a public charter school and is operating under a contract with the dc government through the dc public charter school board, providing high quality education for adults and children that empowers families through a culturally…

Education
9
Alliance for a Better Community

Advancing social, economic, racial equity and justice for the latino / a community and the los angeles region through power building and policy advocacy.

Community Improvement
10
Children's Aid College Prep Charter School

Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.

Education
11
Bright Beginnings Inc

Provide families and children experiencing housing instability with a safe, nurturing educational environment to ensure children enter kindergarten ready to learn and parents become self-sufficient.

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12
Family Services Inc

To strengthen the well-being and development of families and individuals through professional human services programs, including therapy, counseling, education, special assistance, and advocacy.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Street Settlement; the most unlike its peers is Ps 15 Patrick F Daly School Pta. 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

12 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. 12 of the 26 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED: $347,472 · OtherSOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (THIRTY MILLION WORDS): $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (THIRTY MILLION WORDS)TMW CENTER FOR EARLY LEARNING: $134,500 · OtherTMW CENTER FOR EARLY LEARNINGEDUCARE ARIZONA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $35,842 · Other+11 more: $82,123 · Other+11 moreLITTLE ESSENTIALS: $74,094 · Human ServicesLITTLE ESS…Kidango Inc: $10,100 · Human ServicesKidango In…HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $10,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STRE…BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $69,500 · EducationBROOKLYN …Berkeley Public Schools Fund: $10,000 · EducationBerkeley …PS 15 PATRICK F DALY SCHOOL PTA: $9,515 · EducationPS 15 PAT…+1 more: $3 · EducationFIRST STAR INSTITUTE INC: $43,000 · Crime & LegalCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $10,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $10,000 · Civil RightsLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$799,937Human Services$94,194Education$89,018Crime & Legal$43,000Civil Rights$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED: $347,472 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE ESSENTIALS: $74,094 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $69,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST STAR INSTITUTE INC: $43,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetKidango Inc: $10,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBerkeley Public Schools Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $3 over 1y, 0.0% 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 SOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE ESSENTIALS ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds FIRST STAR INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Kidango Inc ↗
  • Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds Berkeley Public Schools Fund ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds PS 15 PATRICK F DALY SCHOOL PTA ↗
  • Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH11.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Steve Nash Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steve Nash Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–50%
    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

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    How do I get to Steve Nash Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Steve Nash 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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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