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The Naduse 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.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$118kHuman Services$77kEnvironment$75kHousing & Shelter$49kCivil Rights$48kInternational$42kAnimals$32kCrime & Legal$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$10,000
BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER$7,500
HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES$5,000
CHEWONKI FOUNDATION$5,000
YOUNG CENTER FOR CHILDREN$5,000
UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$5,000
IFAW GLOBAL ANIMAL RESCUE$5,000
COMMUNITY CATALYST$5,000
NAMI$5,000
WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL$5,000
COMMUNITY CHANGE$5,000
ON THE RISE$5,000
BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SRVCS$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ON THE RISE: $5k → 8%ACTION INC: $3k → 10%211 LA: $1k → 14%ON THE RISE: $5k → 8%ACTION INC: $3k → 10%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $5k → 16%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMAGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $5k → 14%ON THE RISE: $5k → 8%ACTION INC: $3k → 10%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $5k → 16%ON THE RISE: $5k → 8%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $2k → 10%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMAGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $5k → 14%ON THE RISE: $5k → 8%ACTION INC: $2k → 10%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $3k → 16%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMAGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $3k → 14%ON THE RISE: $5k → 8%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $2k → 10%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $2k → 16%ACTION INC: $2k → 10%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $2k → 16%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $1k → 10%ACTION INC: $1k → 10%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES: $5k → 16%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES: $5k → 16%PROJECT HOPE BOSTON: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

ME
NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
HI
GA
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$449k · 34 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
18

Total granted

$449k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+35%

Still filing today

79%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentInternationalHealthCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $36k · revenue +51%
  • OT
    ON THE RISE INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +67%
  • WF
    WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $26k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
  • MP
    MAUI PONO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +10%
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.

1
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
2
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
3
Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…

Environment
4
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
5
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
6
The Commons Inc

To partner with individuals and organizations to access, organize, and share data that inspires action that restores our environment.

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7
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
8
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
9
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
10
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
11
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
12
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Catalyst Inc; the most unlike its peers is Community Change Inc. 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

42 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. 42 of the 58 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
29/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $42,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $35,500 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRE…COMMUNITY CHANGE INC: $26,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CHANGE INCIndividual grant recipient: $19,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIFAW GLOBAL ANIMAL RESCUE: $15,500 · OtherIFAW GLOBAL ANIMAL RESCUEFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $14,000 · OtherYOUNG CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · Other+24 more: $111,013 · Other+24 moreON THE RISE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesON THE RISE INCUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $16,500 · Human ServicesUNITED SOUTH END SE…ACTION INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesACTION INCTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $12,500 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG CENTER FO…HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHEALTH LAW ADVOCATE…WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING HOUSE IN…+2 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $25,500 · InternationalWOMEN FOR …WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalWORLD CENT…THE CARTER CENTER INC: $6,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICARES…DIRECT RELIEF: $5,000 · InternationalDIRECT REL…Chewonki Foundation Inc: $25,000 · EnvironmentChewonki …GREEN BEVERLY 107Q INC: $7,500 · EnvironmentGREEN BEV…SQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · EnvironmentSQUAM LAK…COMMUNITY WORK DAY PROGRAM: $3,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY…SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $3,000 · EnvironmentSQUAM LAK…THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $2,500 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST…TREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER: $14,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY CATALYST INC: $10,000 · HealthNAMI National: $10,000 · HealthBOSTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $24,500 · Science & TechEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $6,000 · Crime & LegalEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$273,513Human Services$90,500International$51,500Environment$46,000Health$39,500Science & Tech$24,500Crime & Legal$13,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $35,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetON THE RISE INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHANGE INC: $26,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $25,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChewonki Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $24,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $16,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER: $14,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetACTION INC: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CATALYST INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN BEVERLY 107Q INC: $7,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SENTENCING PROJECT: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY WORK DAY PROGRAM: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INFORMATION AND REFERRAL FEDERATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Mass General Brigham …Essex County Communit…Institution for Savin…Salem Five Charitable…Cummings Foundation G…Analog Devices Founda…Edwin S Webster Found…The Orchard FoundationThe Peter and Elizabe…Agnes M Lindsay Trust
Boston Foundation IncMA24.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Analog Devices Foundation · Edwin S Webster Foundation · The Orchard Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Boston Children's Foundation Inc: 96% of income from government
  • Health Law Advocates Inc: 52% of income from government
  • On the Rise Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Nourishing the North Shore Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Project Hope Boston Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Community Catalyst Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Wellspring House Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Action Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Three Sisters Garden Project Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Green Beverly 107Q Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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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How do I get to The Naduse Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Naduse 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.

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 58 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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