How much does The John and Shirley Nash Foundation give?

The John and Shirley Nash Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $197,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The John and Shirley Nash Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (29%), International (18%), Arts & Culture (13%).

Who are The John and Shirley Nash Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: French and Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust Inc ($93k), Chester County Food Bank ($65k), Paoli Memorial Hospital Foundation ($64k).

Does The John and Shirley Nash Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The John and Shirley Nash Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The John and Shirley Nash Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chester County Community Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Hankin Foundation.

Where is The John and Shirley Nash Foundation based?

The John and Shirley Nash Foundation is based in DE.

The John and Shirley Nash Foundation

The John and Shirley Nash Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$198k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$22k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$359kInternational$224kArts & Culture$164kFood & Nutrition$135kHealth$129kHuman Services$67kEmployment$39kHousing & Shelter$37kOther$0

02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

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

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FRENCH AND PICKERING CREEKS CONSERVATION TRUST INC	$22,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC	$10,000
CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK	$10,000
PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$10,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC	$10,000
PHILABUNDANCE	$10,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC	$8,000
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE	$8,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED	$7,000
WHYY INC	$5,000
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC	$5,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC	$5,000
HANDI-CRAFTERS INC	$5,000
SAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC	$5,000
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 43 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%

+690%

Still filing today

88%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

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CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK
8× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +138%
PM
PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +59%
Philabundance
8× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +101%

Funded once

YO
YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE
one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +4%
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AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +690%

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.

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Public Media Nj Inc

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

Arts & Culture

Npr Foundation

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…

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Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

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…

Environment

Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement

Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health

Boston Architectural College

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

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Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Friends of the Middlesex Fells Reservation Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 65 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

59/59

Grantees still filing

37/59

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$343,000International$179,500Arts & Culture$163,600Food & Nutrition$128,000Other$228,950Health$110,000Human Services$76,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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.

Chester County Community FoundationPA21.8× affinity8 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 · 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

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 John and Shirley Nash Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John and Shirley Nash Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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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