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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Individual grant recipient$10,000
SFV Japanese American Community Cen$10,000
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles$10,000
North Bay Children's Center$10,000
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 (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. Its 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
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

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MN
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MI
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CA
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NC
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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.
$2.7M · 54 repeat orgs$315k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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
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

  • 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%
  • MC
    Marin Court Appointed Special Advoc
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • LM
    LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +8%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest; 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.
04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 91 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlive and Free: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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 budgetBRIDGE TO HOME SCV: $20,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetLIBERATED LEARNING COMMUNITY: $12,500 over 1y, 3.0% 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 budgetBOSTON DREAM CENTER CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetThe Claremont Forum: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA ROCA MINISTRIES INC: $8,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR HUMANE EDUCATION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE FOR PAWS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTS THAT PURR FELINE GUARDIANS: $6,000 over 2y, 2.3% 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 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 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Alive and Free ↗
  • Who funds RISE UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CATE SCHOOL ↗

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.

California Community …East Bay Community Fo…Marin Community Found…Conrad N Hilton Found…Ja Community Foundati…California HumanitiesThe California Wellne…The San Francisco Fou…Sempra FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
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

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 91 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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