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The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund at a glance

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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.

$17M
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$25MEducation$8.6MEnvironment$1.9MYouth Development$840kFood & Nutrition$350kHuman Services$300kCrime & Legal$250kPhilanthropy$220kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $860k
  • $250k+11 grants · $16M
$75,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$77M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Pratt Institute$1,000,000
Cleveland Museum of Natural History$1,000,000
Lorain County Community College$1,000,000
The Frick Collection$1,000,000
Cleveland Museum of Art$250,000
West End House Boys & Girls Club$100,000
TreePeople Inc$100,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston$100,000
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland$85,000
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Lenox Hill Neighborhood House: $100k → 17%Lenox Hill Neighborhood House: $100k → 17%Lenox Hill Neighborhood House: $50k → 17%Lenox Hill Neighborhood House: $50k → 17%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$38M · 30 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
5

Total granted

$38M
$252k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+0%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CM
    CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
    4× · 2022–2025 · $7.5M · revenue +14%
  • TM
    The Musical Arts Association
    4× · 2022–2025 · $6.2M · revenue +27%
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • Metropolitan Opera Association Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +0%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +25%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -60%
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
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
3
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
4
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
6
Bard College

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.

Education
7
Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture
8
Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston

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…

Education
9
University of New Haven

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…

Education
10
Lehigh University

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…

Education
11
The Central European University

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…

International
12
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 36 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
19/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $7,500,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ARTThe Musical Arts Association: $6,220,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts AssociationCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1,330,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY+3 more: $525,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Fine Arts Boston: $6,200,000 · OtherMuseum of Fine Arts BostonLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2,100,000 · OtherLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGEThe Frick Collection: $1,015,000 · OtherThe Frick CollectionWest End House Boys & Girls Club: $440,000 · Other+10 more: $989,750 · Other+10 moreCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $3,500,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIV…THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART: $2,050,000 · EducationTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE O…PRATT INSTITUTE: $2,000,000 · EducationPRATT INSTITUTEBOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC: $325,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $300,000 · Education+4 more: $495,000 · Education+4 moreNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1,390,000 · EnvironmentTREEPEOPLE INC: $400,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $400,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF GREATER LORAIN COUNTY INC: $220,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$15,575,000Other$10,744,750Education$8,670,000Environment$1,940,000Youth Development$405,000Human Services$300,000Philanthropy$220,000

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 budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $7,500,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $6,220,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $3,500,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART: $2,050,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetPRATT INSTITUTE: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1,390,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1,330,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $1,015,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTREEPEOPLE INC: $400,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $400,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC: $325,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $300,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $250,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND: $250,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER LORAIN COUNTY INC: $220,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetFRONT EXHIBITION COMPANY: $175,000 over 2y, 60% of budgetFIRELANDS ASSN FOR THE VISUAL ARTS: $159,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOberlin College: $140,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC: $80,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAPPY TRAILS FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $5,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetIDEASTREAM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAPPY TAILS PET SANCTUARY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLORAIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $250 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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Nord Family Found…The Nordson Corporati…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Lorain CountyOH15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report 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.

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 36 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home