Arizona · Private foundation
The Les and Nss 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.
- $3k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 4
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $39k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations The Les and Nss Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $3k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $4k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $8k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $8k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Center on Sexual Exploitation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dignity Health Foundation East Valley | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Ear Community Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Arizona Humane Society | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Phoenix Herpetological Society Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wild at Heart Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Les and Nss Foundation
- How much does The Les and Nss Foundation give?
- The Les and Nss Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $2,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Les and Nss Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (93%), Animals (3%), Education (2%).
- Who are The Les and Nss Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: National Center on Sexual Exploitation ($5k), Dignity Health Foundation East Valley ($3k), Ear Community Inc ($3k).
- Does The Les and Nss Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Les and Nss 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 Les and Nss Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Les and Nss Foundation based?
- The Les and Nss Foundation is based in AZ.
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