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The Charles E Nearburg Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$919k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$450k
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 2025.

Education$3.3MArts & Culture$1.1MHealth$763kRecreation & Sports$5k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $104k
  • $250k+2 grants · $810k
$360,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Mark's School of Texas$450,000
Sean Karl Foundation$360,000
The Charlie Landers Foundation$104,000
Green Granite Rowing Inc$5,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHOP Research Institute: $143k → 22%ArtCenter College of Design: $200k → 14%St Mark's School of Texas: $450k → 14%Sean Karl Foundation: $360k → 4%The Charlie Landers Foundation: $104k → 7%Natl Cancer Inst Center for Cancer: $86k → 8%Maryland Institute College of Art: $300k → 19%Dartmouth College: $100k → 10%ArtCenter College of Design: $200k → 14%St Mark's School of Texas: $200k → 14%Natl Cancer Inst Center for Cancer: $29k → 8%Maryland Institute College of Art: $100k → 19%Dartmouth College: $100k → 10%ArtCenter College of Design: $200k → 14%St Mark's School of Dallas: $50k → 14%Natl Cancer Inst Center for Cancer: $28k → 8%Dartmouth College: $100k → 10%ArtCenter College of Design: $200k → 14%St Mark's School of Dallas: $50k → 14%Natl Cancer Inst Center for Cancer: $13k → 8%Dartmouth College: $100k → 10%ArtCenter College of Design: $200k → 14%St Mark's School of Texas: $50k → 14%Dartmouth College: $100k → 10%The Petersen Automotive Museum: $250k → 14%St Mark's School of Dallas: $50k → 14%Dartmouth College: $50k → 10%The Petersen Automotive Museum: $200k → 14%St Mark's School of Texas: $50k → 14%Dartmouth College: $50k → 10%The Petersen Automotive Museum: $100k → 14%Dartmouth College: $50k → 10%The Petersen Automotive Museum: $100k → 14%Dartmouth College: $50k → 10%The Petersen Automotive Museum: $100k → 14%Dartmouth College: $50k → 10%The Petersen Automotive Museum: $100k → 14%Dartmouth College: $50k → 10%The Petersen Automotive Museum: $100k → 14%Dartmouth College: $50k → 10%The Petersen Automotive Museum: $100k → 14%Dartmouth College: $50k → 10%Dartmouth College: $50k → 10%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 6 repeat orgs$612k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$3.5M
$143k

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $469k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • PA
    PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +39%
  • AC
    ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN
    5× · 2019–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +34%
  • SM
    ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS
    4× · 2020–2025 · $750k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • CR
    CHOP Research Institute
    one grant, 2023 · $143k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.

Education
4
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
5
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
6
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
7
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
8
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
9
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
10
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
11
Saint Mary's College of California

Saint mary's college of california invites you to passionately embrace knowledge, the challenges of scholarship, and the capacity to make lasting change in the world. the foundation for this is our mission. to probe deeply the mystery of…

Education
12
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Art Center College of Design; the most unlike its peers is Green Granite Rowing Inc. 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

7 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. 7 of the 11 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)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $1,000,000 · EducationART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGNTrustees of Dartmouth College: $950,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth CollegeST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $750,000 · EducationST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXASMaryland Institute: $400,000 · EducationMaryland InstitutePETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $1,050,000 · Arts & CulturePETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUS…SEAN KARL FOUNDATION: $360,000 · HealthSEAN KARL …THE CHARLIE LANDERS FOUNDATION: $104,000 · HealthTHE CHARLI…Natl Cancer Inst Center for Cancer: $156,057 · OtherNatl Cance…St Mark's School of Dallas: $150,000 · OtherSt Mark's …CHOP Research Institute: $142,512 · OtherCHOP Resea…GREEN GRANITE ROWING INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$3,100,000Arts & Culture$1,050,000Health$464,000Other$448,569Recreation & Sports$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $1,050,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $1,000,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $950,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $750,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMaryland Institute: $400,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSEAN KARL FOUNDATION: $360,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetTHE CHARLIE LANDERS FOUNDATION: $104,000 over 1y, 19% 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 PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds Maryland Institute ↗
  • Who funds SEAN KARL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CHARLIE LANDERS FOUNDATION ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 The Charles E Nearburg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles E Nearburg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–10%
    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.

    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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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