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The Nagourney Institute

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Health$81kInternational$11kCivil Rights$8kYouth Development$5kEducation$4kEnvironment$4kHousing & Shelter$750Public Safety & Disaster$500Other$0
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$414k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LONG BEACH AREA COUNCIL$1,150
MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$1,036
MCGILL UNIVERSITY$500
AACR FOUNDATION$500
ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE$500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LONG BEACH$360
PEOPLE AGAINST CANCER$100
ELIXIR FUND$100
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Your US giving — 87% of grant dollars ($100k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 13% that went abroad ($14k) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE BUCKET LIST PROJECT FOUNDATION: $100 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Beyond the US — 13% of all-years giving ($14k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Brazil$11k · 1 grant
Canada$4k · 7 grants

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$100k · 17 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
10

Total granted

$100k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+4%

Still filing today

59%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • Rocky Mountain Institute
    7× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +381%
  • LB
    LONG BEACH AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +34%
  • CU
    CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • C
    CASSEMS
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
  • LB
    LONG BEACH BRANCH OF NAACP
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • SH
    SIGNAL HILL POLICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +13%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute

The Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute ALCMI is dedicated to catalyzing and accelerating the discovery, development and delivery of new and more effective treatment options for lung cancer patients.

Health
4
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
7
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
8
Long Beach State Foundation

The foundation seeks, secures and manages private support for california state university, long beach. (see schedule o)as the philanthropic foundation for the university, all donations in support of our students, faculty, programs and…

Education
9
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc

The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health
11
California State University Long Beach Research Foundation

Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.

Education
12
Cancer Research and Biostatistics

To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Medical Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Institute. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VANGUARD CANCER FOUNDATION — $71,250 · HealthVANGUARD CANCER FOUNDATION+2 more — $1,836 · HealthCASSEMS — $10,863 · OtherCASSEMSLONG BEACH BRANCH NAACP — $6,200 · OtherLONG BEACH BRANCH NAACPMCGILL UNIVERSITY — $3,500 · OtherMCGILL UNIVERSITYRocky Mountain Institute — $3,500 · OtherRocky Mountain InstituteAACR FOUNDATION — $3,250 · OtherAACR FOUNDATIONLONG BEACH AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $2,900 · OtherLONG BEACH AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS O…THE CHAPMAN FUND — $1,500 · OtherLONG BEACH BRANCH OF NAACP — $1,400 · Other+12 more — $4,079 · Other+12 moreCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH — $1,561 · Youth DevelopmentThe Bucket List Project Foundation — $100 · Human ServicesRANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION — $100 · Arts & Culture
Health$73,086Other$37,192Education$2,000Youth Development$1,561Human Services$100Arts & Culture$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVANGUARD CANCER FOUNDATION — $71,250 over 6y, 11% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute — $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLONG BEACH AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $2,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH — $1,561 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $1,136 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE AGAINST CANCER — $700 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetELIXIR FUND — $700 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSIGNAL HILL POLICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION — $500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCAMP FIRE ANGELES — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bucket List Project Foundation — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds VANGUARD CANCER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute
  • Who funds LONG BEACH AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH
  • Who funds MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PEOPLE AGAINST CANCER
  • Who funds ELIXIR FUND
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SIGNAL HILL POLICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds CAMP FIRE ANGELES
  • Who funds The Bucket List Project Foundation
  • Who funds RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Earl B & Loraine H Miller FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · Long Beach Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Nagourney Institute funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 13%
  • Trustees of Boston University13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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