· Private foundation
The John and Shirley Nash 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k52 grants · $126k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRENCH AND PICKERING CREEKS CONSERVATION TRUST INC | $22,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $10,000 |
| PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC | $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 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC | $5,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $5,000 |
| WHYY INC | $5,000 |
| UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF | $5,000 |
| ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA | $5,000 |
| HANDI-CRAFTERS INC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
43 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +138%
- PMPAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +59%
Philabundance8× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- YOYMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINEone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +4%
- AOAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +746%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Friends of the Middlesex Fells Reservation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sudanese American Physicians Assn. 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 47 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
59 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 65 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds FRENCH AND PICKERING CREEKS CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds HANDI-CRAFTERS INC ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds COATESVILLE YOUTH INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC YELLOW SPRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER SPRINGS LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds POPULATION CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds CURE4CAM INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE'S LIGHT & THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Chester County Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Hankin Foundation · United Way of Chester County Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The William Penn Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Arlington Eats Inc — 6% of income from government
- 47 Palmer Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
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.
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