How much did The John and Shirley Nash Foundation grant in FY2025?

Environment$309kArts & Culture$139kFood & Nutrition$123kHealth$108kInternational$91kHuman Services$39kHousing & Shelter$30kPublic Benefit$21kYouth Development$18kOther$332k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

—

2019

room

2020

covid relieffrench pickeringpickering creekscreeks conservationroom

2021

—

2022

war ukraine

2023

—

2025

bostonenglandwinchestergrieving children

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k52 grants · $126k
$10k–50k6 grants · $72k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

FRENCH AND PICKERING CREEKS CONSERVATION TRUST INC$22,000
PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC$10,000
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK$10,000
PHILABUNDANCE$10,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC$10,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$8,000
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE$8,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED$7,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC$5,000
HANDI-CRAFTERS INC$5,000
WHYY INC$5,000
EARTHJUSTICE$5,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC$5,000
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 8%. 13% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.1M · 46 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+1521%

Still filing today

78%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalHealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther

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

FA
FRENCH AND PICKERING CREEKS CONSERVATION TRUST INC
6× · 2018–2025 · $93k · revenue +9%
CC
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK
8× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +125%
PHILABUNDANCE
8× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +35%

Funded once

YM
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BRANDY
one grant, 2017 · $30k
DW
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC
one grant, 2017 · $5k
AO
AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +1521%

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.

Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and our planet by creating protected reserves.

International

Zoological Society of Philadelphia

To flourish as an urban oasis, where people and animals thrive, (continued in schedule o)

Animals

Greenpeace Inc

To promote the protection and preservation of the environment.

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Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children

Pennyslvania partnerships for children is a strong, effective, and trusted voice for improving the health, education, and well being of the children and youth in pennsylvania.

Youth Development

Npr Foundation

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Eastern National

To serve america's national parks and other public trusts and their visitors

Recreation & Sports

Pidc Development Management Corporation

Administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other nfp entities.

Community Improvement

Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities.

Food & Nutrition

The Water Research Foundation

Advancing the science of water to improve the quality of life.

Environment

The Potomac Conservancy Inc

Environment

National Public Radio Inc

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States Fund for Unicef and the most unlike its peers is Philadelphia Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/53

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,512

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.

05the grantee network

53 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

52/53

Grantees still filing

40/53

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Environment$309,000Other$399,950Arts & Culture$139,100Food & Nutrition$122,500Health$108,000International$90,500Human Services$39,200

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.

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.

Chester County Community FoundationPA20.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chester County Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Chester County Inc · Independence Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation 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 organisation The John and Shirley Nash 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SWIM WINCHESTER INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 461796334 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SWIM WINCHESTER INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The John and Shirley Nash Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The John and Shirley Nash Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

The John and Shirley Nash Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

53 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The John and Shirley Nash Foundation?

More from the funding graph

The John and Shirley Nash Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

53 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The John and Shirley Nash Foundation?

More from the funding graph