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The Jill H Nagorniak Charitable 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.

$91k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$63k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY$10,000
GBH$10,000
WBUR$5,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$5,000
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL$5,000
FINCA$5,000
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$5,000
PINE STREET INN$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH$5,000
FATHER BILLS AND MAINSPRING$5,000
THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$5,000
ABBY'S HOUSE$5,000
NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL (NRDC)$5,000
FOXBORO DISCRETIONARY FUND$5,000
02The need
02

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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%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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MN
NY
MA
IA
RI
WV
VA
DC
GA

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 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
Preble Street

To provide accessible barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty and to advocate for solutions to those problems.

Human Services
2
Managers of Boston Port and Seamen's Aid Society
3
Familyaid Boston Inc

Familyaid boston empowers parents and caregivers facing homelessness to secure and sustain housing and build strong foundations for their children's futures.

4
Boston Architectural College

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

5
Pine Street Inn Housing Ii Inc

Pine street inn housing ii, inc. is a massachusetts not-for-profit corporation, which was organized to provide ten elderly individuals with housing facilities and services at the inn's menino house at geneva avenue in boston,…

Housing & Shelter
6
Family Promise North Shore Boston Inc

Family promise north shore boston's mission is to prevent and end family homelessness. we promote access to economic opportunity and housing stability through a holistic, family-centered, community-based response.

Human Services
7
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
8
Citizens Inn Inc

The organization's mission is to prevent and end hunger and homelessness by providing integrated services that promote long-term stability, health, and independence. (see schedule o for full description)

Housing & Shelter
9
Fields Corner Housing Corporation

To provide affordable housing to low and moderate income residents in the fields corner and greater dorchester area.

Housing & Shelter
10
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
11
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Boston Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foxboro Discretionary FundInc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 19 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
2/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GBH — $10,000 · OtherGBHHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $5,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATIONNATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL (NRDC) — $5,000 · OtherNATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL (NRDC)HEIFER INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 · OtherHEIFER INTERNATIONALTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREM — $2,000 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETYPROJECT PUFFIN — $2,000 · Other+1 more — $1,000 · OtherTrinity Repertory Company — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTrinity Repe…ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterABBY KELLEY …FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterFATHER BILL'…FRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $5,000 · EnvironmentKennebunkport Conservation Trust — $1,000 · EnvironmentFoxboro Discretionary FundInc — $5,000 · Food & NutritionPINE STREET INN INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $5,000 · HealthFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $5,000 · International
Other$45,000Arts & Culture$10,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Environment$6,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Human Services$5,000Health$5,000International$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTrinity Repertory Company — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Jill H Nagorniak Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc24% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc22% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc11% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Jill H Nagorniak Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Jill H Nagorniak Charitable 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 19 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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