· Private foundation
The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $860k
- $250k+11 grants · $16M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Museum of Fine Arts Boston | $3,000,000 |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | $3,000,000 |
| Musical Arts Association | $2,000,000 |
| Case Western Reserve University | $1,600,000 |
| Case Western Reserve University | $1,525,000 |
| New York Botanical Garden | $1,000,000 |
| Cleveland Museum of Natural History | $1,000,000 |
| The Frick Collection | $1,000,000 |
| Lorain County Community College | $1,000,000 |
| Pratt Institute | $1,000,000 |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | $250,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston | $100,000 |
| West End House Boys & Girls Club | $100,000 |
| TreePeople Inc | $100,000 |
| Legal Aid Society of Cleveland | $85,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +14% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART4× · 2022–2025 · $7.5M · revenue +14%
- TMThe Musical Arts Association4× · 2022–2025 · $6.2M · revenue +27%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +13%
Funded once
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIOone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +25%
Metropolitan Opera Association Incone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +0%- FOFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -60%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Happy Tails Pet Sanctuary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 61 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 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. 31 of the 36 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 CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART ↗
- Who funds PRATT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds TREEPEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER LORAIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRONT EXHIBITION COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FIRELANDS ASSN FOR THE VISUAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Oberlin College ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HAPPY TRAILS FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds HAPPY TAILS PET SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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: Community Foundation of Lorain County · The Nord Family Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Book Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
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.