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The Grace Nixon Foundation

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.

$453k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$650kReligion$397kInternational$327kEducation$323kArts & Culture$230kAnimals$219kHealth$145kYouth Development$87kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $127k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $276k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$7,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Crossway Church$50,000
ZOE International Ministries$38,875
Access Books$35,000
The Lighthouse - A Place of Refuge$25,000
Nikkei Senior Gardens$21,000
Individual grant recipient$20,500
JEMS$19,200
Japanese American National Museum$17,000
Chico State Enterprises$15,000
Liberated Learning Community$12,500
Little Toyko Service Center$12,000
Go for Broke National Education Cen$10,000
SFV Japanese American Community Cen$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
North Bay Children's Center$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $377k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Meals on Wheels Diablo Region: $8k → 9%Wounded Warrior Project: $9k → 14%North Bay Children's Center: $50k → 8%Wounded Warrior Project: $8k → 14%North Bay Children's Center: $35k → 8%North Bay Children's Center: $35k → 8%North Bay Children's Center: $30k → 8%North Bay Children's Center: $30k → 8%North Bay Children's Center: $10k → 8%The Lighthouse - A Place of Refuge: $35k → 14%The Lighthouse - A Place of Refuge: $27k → 14%The Lighthouse - A Place of Refuge: $25k → 14%The Lighthouse - A Place of Refuge: $12k → 14%The Lighthouse - A Place of Refuge: $3k → 14%The Lighthouse - A Place of Refuge: $2k → 14%The Lighthouse - A Place of Refuge: $2k → 14%Guide Dogs of America: $8k → 14%Guide Dogs of America: $5k → 14%Dawn of Hope: $20k → 14%Dawn of Hope: $7k → 14%Dawn of Hope: $6k → 14%Liberated Learning Community: $13k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 54 repeat orgs$315k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

54 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
25

Total granted

$2.7M
$217k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+2%

Still filing today

74%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k 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
AnimalsEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • ZI
    ZOE INTERNATIONAL
    8× · 2018–2025 · $300k · revenue +55%
  • NB
    NORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +174%
  • NS
    NIKKEI SENIOR GARDENS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $108k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • RM
    RIVERSIDE MUSEUM ASSOCIATES
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -33%
  • LM
    LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +8%
  • MC
    Marin Court Appointed Special Advoc
    one grant, 2019 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Lange Foundation

Our mission is to rescue pets that have been impounded at los angeles county's 25 overcrowded public shelters - providing proper care, shelter, and then placement. we also provide pet owners with alternatives when they think they have no…

Human Services
2
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
3
Silicon Valley Pet Project

Silicon valley pet project (svpp) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to saving local at-risk shelter pets through rescue, community involvement and education.

Animals
4
Rancho Coastal Humane Society

See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…

Animals
5
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
6
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
7
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
8
Pets Lifeline Inc

Pets Lifeline is dedicated to protecting and improving the lives of cats and dogs in need in Sonoma Valley through sheltering and adoption, humane education, and community programs.

Animals
9
Friends of San Francisco Animal Care and Control

Friends of San Francisco Animal Care and Control FSFACC is the only organization dedicated to raising funds for the City's municipal, open-admission animal shelter and its rescue partners in order to enhance or establish programs and…

Animals
10
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
11
Affordable Pet Care Group of Los Angeles

The mission of the affordable pet care group of los angeles is to improve the veterinary community as a whole, from within, thereby making pet care more accessible and affordable.

Animals
12
Community Animal Medicine Project Inc

To substantially reduce animal shelter euthanasia and intake by providing high quality, low cost veterinary services to underserved communities in the los angeles area.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Crossway Church. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Pregnancy Support ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%7%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr18%37%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr12%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%2%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr18%39%20–35yr11%35%35–55yr12%7%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/66
the rest of the field
14%
16,350/118,358

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.

04the grantee network

63 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 91 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
42/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CROSSWAY CHURCH — $281,500 · OtherCROSSWAY CHURCHJEMS — $204,900 · OtherJEMSIndividual grant recipient — $61,000 · OtherChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $70,000 · OtherGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $62,500 · OtherPets for Vets Inc — $49,000 · Other+53 more — $735,300 · Other+53 moreNORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $190,000 · Human ServicesNORTH BAY CHILDR…THE LIGHTHOUSE - A PLACE OF REFUGE — $105,000 · Human ServicesTHE LIGHTHOUSE -…GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $42,500 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR T…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $40,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR …Dawn of Hope Inc — $32,500 · Human ServicesDawn of Hope Inc+3 more — $32,500 · Human Services+3 moreZOE INTERNATIONAL — $300,147 · ReligionZOE INTERNAT…AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC — $25,000 · ReligionAMERICAN LEB…JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM — $87,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE A…GO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CENTER — $75,000 · Arts & CultureGO FOR BRO…GOTHAM EARLY MUSIC SCENE INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureGOTHAM EAR…RIVERSIDE MUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $35,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE …The Claremont Forum — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTRINITY CLASSICAL ACADEMY — $51,000 · EducationTRINITY C…FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE — $38,165 · EducationFRED T KO…ACCESS BOOKS — $35,000 · EducationACCESS BO…LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationLOYOLA MA…RISE UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY — $25,000 · EducationRISE UNIV…CATE SCHOOL — $23,000 · EducationCATE SCHO…OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE — $20,000 · EducationOCCIDENTA…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $15,000 · EducationSOCIAL GO…Chico State Enterprises — $15,000 · EducationChico Sta…+1 more — $5,000 · EducationThe Story Project — $84,900 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTHWEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentNIKKEI SENIOR GARDENS — $107,752 · Housing & ShelterLA ROCA MINISTRIES INC — $8,000 · Housing & ShelterKOKORO ASSISTED LIVING INC — $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,464,200Human Services$443,000Religion$325,147Arts & Culture$277,000Education$252,165Youth Development$134,900Housing & Shelter$120,752

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetZOE INTERNATIONAL — $300,147 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCROSSWAY CHURCH — $281,500 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetNORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $190,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNIKKEI SENIOR GARDENS — $107,752 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE - A PLACE OF REFUGE — $105,000 over 7y, 39% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM — $87,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Story Project — $84,900 over 4y, 29% of budgetGO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CENTER — $75,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $62,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGOTHAM EARLY MUSIC SCENE INC — $60,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetTRINITY CLASSICAL ACADEMY — $51,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetPets for Vets Inc — $49,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MILO FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $42,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budget1979 LEGACY CORP — $42,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $40,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE — $38,165 over 5y, 16% of budgetACCESS BOOKS — $35,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetRIVERSIDE MUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $35,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetDawn of Hope Inc — $32,500 over 3y, 27% of budgetSCV PREGNANCY CENTER — $30,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetECPAT-USA INC — $25,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAlive and Free — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISE UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY — $25,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATE SCHOOL — $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE TO HOME SCV — $20,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChico State Enterprises — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOOR OF HOPE — $14,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGuardians Support Center Inc — $14,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetSPCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERATED LEARNING COMMUNITY — $12,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Claremont Forum — $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBOSTON DREAM CENTER CORP — $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetLA ROCA MINISTRIES INC — $8,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR HUMANE EDUCATION — $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHEARTS THAT PURR FELINE GUARDIANS — $6,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHOPE FOR PAWS — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 ZOE INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds CROSSWAY CHURCH
  • Who funds NORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC
  • Who funds NIKKEI SENIOR GARDENS
  • Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE - A PLACE OF REFUGE
  • Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
  • Who funds The Story Project
  • Who funds GO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CENTER
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GOTHAM EARLY MUSIC SCENE INC
  • Who funds TRINITY CLASSICAL ACADEMY
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Pets for Vets Inc
  • Who funds THE MILO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC
  • Who funds 1979 LEGACY CORP
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE
  • Who funds ACCESS BOOKS
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE MUSEUM ASSOCIATES
  • Who funds Dawn of Hope Inc
  • Who funds SCV PREGNANCY CENTER
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS
  • Who funds ECPAT-USA INC
  • Who funds Alive and Free
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds RISE UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC
  • Who funds CATE SCHOOL

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.

California Community FoundationCA16.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Ja Community Foundation · California Humanities · The California Wellness Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Grace Nixon Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Grace Nixon Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Grace Nixon 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 91 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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