How much does The Lisa and Victor Nemeroff Foundation give?

The Lisa and Victor Nemeroff Foundation reported 79 grants totaling $25,195 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 80 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Lisa and Victor Nemeroff Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Health (8%), Animals (7%).

Who are The Lisa and Victor Nemeroff Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The National Film Preserve Ltd ($12k), Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ($3k), Zion Grove Baptist Church ($3k).

Does The Lisa and Victor Nemeroff Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Lisa and Victor Nemeroff 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 Lisa and Victor Nemeroff Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Telluride Foundation, The Dalton Family Foundation, Ebb Point Foundation- Blackrock.

Where is The Lisa and Victor Nemeroff Foundation based?

The Lisa and Victor Nemeroff Foundation is based in IL.

The Lisa and Victor Nemeroff Foundation

The Lisa and Victor Nemeroff Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Lisa and Victor Nemeroff Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$25k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$6k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$57kHealth$9kAnimals$8kFood & Nutrition$5kReligion$5kEnvironment$5kYouth Development$5kScience & Tech$5kOther$0

02FY2024 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$150

Median grant

States reached

$358k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL	$6,000
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO 36-6008929	$2,500
PAINTED TURTLE GANG CAMP 95-4612481	$1,500
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY	$1,000
TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER	$500
CHICAGO ACADEMY OF THE ARTS	$500
TELLURIDE MOUNTAIN CLUB	$500
SOCIETY OF CONTEMPORY ART 36-6055526	$500
BEREA COLLEGE	$500
PAWS CHICAGO 36-4219778	$450
SMILE TRAIN	$400
LINCOLN PARK ZOO 36-2512404	$350
FINCA	$250
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION	$250
TELLURIDE HISTORICAL MUSEUM	$250

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 (FY17–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$96k · 93 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

93 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$96k

$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%

+51%

Still filing today

51%

14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationOther

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

TN
The National Film Preserve Ltd
2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +22%
TM
Telluride Mountain Club
4× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +61%
JC
Jewish Community Centers of Chicago
4× · 2020–2023 · $2k · revenue +23%

Funded once

TF
TELL FILM FEST 23-7426302
one grant, 2017 · $6k
LO
LYRIC OPERA OF CHG 36-6008929
one grant, 2017 · $1k
MO
MUSEUM OF SCI AND IND 36-2167797
one grant, 2017 · $1k

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.

Rainforest Trust

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

International

American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit

American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment

Air Transport Association of America Inc

Airlines for america (a4a) vigorously advocates for america's airlines as models of safety, customer service, and environmental responsibility; and as the indispensable network that drives our nation's economy and global…

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The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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

67 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. 67 of the 184 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)

66/67

Grantees still filing

53/67

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$85,555Arts & Culture$16,600Animals$4,300Health$3,275Education$2,725Human Services$2,545Environment$2,277

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.

Telluride FoundationCO32.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Telluride Foundation · The Dalton Family Foundation · Ebb Point Foundation- Blackrock · Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley · The Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson Foundation · Podolsky Family Foundation · Just For Kids Foundation Inc · Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable Foundation · Raymund Foundation Inc · The Mclaughlin Doty Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Herrick Family 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 Lisa and Victor Nemeroff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lisa and Victor Nemeroff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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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