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The Joyce Nies and Peter Witt Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$183k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
29%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations The Joyce Nies and Peter Witt Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEnvironmentCrime & LegalEducationAnimalsHousing & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving21$182k38%
FY202317$23k29%
FY202223$7k48%
FY202121$7k33%
FY202022$50k32%
FY201924$25k67%
FY201816$23k81%
FY20173$7kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$72kHuman Services$67kArts & Culture$38kCrime & Legal$33kFood & Nutrition$27kEducation$22kInternational$15kCivil Rights$14kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($159k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Joyce Nies and Peter Witt Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVoices for Children Inc: $32,444 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetBrazos Valley Food Bank Inc: $27,475 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTiny Hope Village: $19,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $12,450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUnlimited Potential Inc: $6,116 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTidelines Institute: $3,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRogue Action Center: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBrazos Valley Museum of Natural History: $1,150 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Theatre Company of Bcs: $1,100 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAbraham Lincoln Brigade Archives Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHarriett Buhai Center for Family Law: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Chamber Music: $300 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $135 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $80 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wilderness Society: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAustin Shakespeare Festival Co Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Foundation for Ectodermal Dysplasias: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

B Don & Becky Russell Charitable FoundatTX17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat · Winkler Nina Astin Trust · Edge Eugene III Charitable Trust · Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust · Mervin and Annete Peters Family Foundation · M Bookman Peters Charitable Foundation · Gilbert & Thyra Plass Charitable Trust · Orr Waldon H and Adele Charitable Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good

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.

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Find your warmest path to The Joyce Nies and Peter Witt 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.

About The Joyce Nies and Peter Witt Foundation

How much does The Joyce Nies and Peter Witt Foundation give?
The Joyce Nies and Peter Witt Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $182,608 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Joyce Nies and Peter Witt Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (22%), Human Services (20%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are The Joyce Nies and Peter Witt Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Voices for Children Inc ($32k), Brazos Valley Food Bank Inc ($27k), University of Illinois Foundation ($20k).
Does The Joyce Nies and Peter Witt Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Joyce Nies and Peter Witt Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Joyce Nies and Peter Witt Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include B Don & Becky Russell Charitable Foundat, Winkler Nina Astin Trust, Edge Eugene III Charitable Trust.
Where is The Joyce Nies and Peter Witt Foundation based?
The Joyce Nies and Peter Witt Foundation is based in TX.

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 72 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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