· Private foundation
The Nalen 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION | $18,150 |
| ADVOCATES FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC | $10,000 |
| FAR AND WISE INC | $10,000 |
| WOOD RIVER BICYCLE COALITION | $10,000 |
| GMP CHARITIES INC | $7,350 |
| PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC | $5,500 |
| MONTANA LAND RELIANCE | $5,000 |
| ST LUKES WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC KETCHUM SUN VALL | $2,500 |
| WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST COMPANY | $2,500 |
| BOZEMAN SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| HEART OF THE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $1,500 |
| CAT RODEO SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCOURMT OF BARBERSHOP | $1,500 |
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 human-services grants (FY20–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
34 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- THTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL4× · 2020–2023 · $50k · revenue +57%
- WQWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $48k · revenue +180%
- FIFARWISE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +219%
Funded once
- SISAWTOOTH IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDENSone grant, 2020 · $35k
- SASTANFORD ALUMNAE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k
DIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
Our mission is to protect the rural nature of Wallowa County by working cooperatively with private landowners,indigenous people, local communities and governmental entities to conserve land.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…
The council of western state foresters (cwsf) promotes the conservation, protection, and sustainable management of forests for today and generations to come by leading collective action, fostering learning, facilitating resource sharing,…
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
The Gallatin Watershed Council guides collaborative watershed stewardship in the Gallatin Valley for a healthy and productive landscape.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Salmon Center and the most unlike its peers is St Alphonsus Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
58 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 88 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FARWISE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds GMP Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER TRAILS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ALPHONSUS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FLOURISH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST ALPHONSUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE MONTANA ↗
- Who funds Bozeman Deaconess Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Curetivity Foundation ↗
- Who funds Cat Rodeo Scholarship Association ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Community Library Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA COALITION FOR PRESERVATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Spur Community Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Nancy Eccles and Homer M Hayward Family Foundation · Boswell Family Foundation · Heinz Family Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · The Pesky Family Foundation Inc · The Shafran Family Foundation · Thrasher Koffey Foundation · Sahm Family Foundation · Larsen Fund · Sangham 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 Nalen Foundation 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.
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Wayside House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.