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The Nash 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.

$205k
Granted FY2025still arriving
92
Grants FY2025still arriving
22
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$450kEnvironment$267kHealth$202kHuman Services$147kHousing & Shelter$123kFood & Nutrition$113kEducation$105kCivil Rights$94kOther$0
02FY2025 · 92 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k88 grants · $105k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
$700
Median grant
22
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIZNA$25,000
INDIGENOUS EDUCATIONAL NETWORK OF TURTLE ISLAND$25,000
GENDER JUSTICE$25,000
HOPE 4 YOUTH$25,000
WILLOWIND THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC$8,000
BILINGUAL EDUCATION COLLECTIVE$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE FOUNDATION$5,000
BAR HARBOR FESTIVAL CORPORATION$4,000
HENNEPIN HISTORY MUSEUM$4,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DA$4,000
GRAND FORKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$4,000
VISION LOSS RESOURCES INC$4,000
LAKE MINNETONKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$4,000
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF WORCESTER$4,000
CHICK MISSION$3,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INCORPORATED: $200 → 8%ROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN INC: $1k → 12%AAVI INC: $500 → 10%FOSTER THE FAMILY: $2k → 12%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $2k → 15%FOSTER THE FAMILY: $975 → 12%SELAH FREEDOM INC: $1k → 9%AAVI INC: $1k → 10%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION INC: $100 → 13%LOPEZ ISLAND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $500 → 10%SOJOURNER PROJECT INC: $1k → 11%MYHEALTH FOR TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS INC: $700 → 11%MYHEALTH FOR TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS INC: $625 → 11%CHICK MISSION: $3k → 17%MYHEALTH FOR TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS INC: $600 → 11%THINK NEW MEXICO: $250 → 12%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $2k → 11%THINK NEW MEXICO: $250 → 12%MYHEALTH FOR TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS INC: $500 → 11%FOOD DEPOT: $250 → 12%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $1k → 11%MYHEALTH FOR TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS INC: $500 → 11%MYHEALTH FOR TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS INC: $500 → 11%FOOD DEPOT: $250 → 12%GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $1k → 7%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $750 → 11%GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $500 → 7%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $250 → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $4k → 11%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $150 → 11%NEADS INC: $100 → 11%EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $500 → 17%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $1k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $1k → 11%CASA DE ESPERANZA: $25k → 14%ESPERANZA UNITED: $25k → 14%CASA DE ESPERANZA: $8k → 14%SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 11%BILINGUAL EDUCATION COLLECTIVE: $5k → 11%BILINGUAL EDUCATION COLLECTIVE: $5k → 11%BILINGUAL EDUCATION COLLECTIVE: $4k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $3k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $50 → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 147 repeat orgs$196k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

147 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2025, 81 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

147
151

Total granted

$1.6M
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+26%

Still filing today

90%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

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

  • EU
    ESPERANZA UNITED
    3× · 2019–2022 · $58k · revenue +277%
  • UB
    URBAN BOATBUILDERS INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $54k · revenue +26%
  • TT
    Tree Trust
    3× · 2017–2021 · $54k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD - MN ND & SD
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • MA
    MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -43%
  • MP
    MINNESOTA PRISON WRITING WORKSHOPgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +289%

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
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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2
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
3
Minnesota Land Trust

The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.

Environment
4
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
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
7
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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8
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
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
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
11
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is Chicken Run Rescue. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDomestic Violence ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…Environmental Conservation …Local History MuseumsImmigrant Worker SupportEquine Therapy ProgramsCommunity College Foundatio…Pregnancy Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Affordable Housing Construc…Animal Rescue and ShelterHealth Access Advocacy and …Elementary Literacy TutoringChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Jewish Community Organizati…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Women & Girls Leadership De…Public Library OperationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Arts CentersYouth Development ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsSchool Parent OrganizationsCancer Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%4%<5yr12%4%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr16%26%35–55yr18%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%4%<5yr12%4%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr16%27%35–55yr18%26%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.3%1/300
the rest of the field
10%
3,828/38,689

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.

04the grantee network

286 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. 286 of the 326 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
70
Early backer (in before they grew)
283/286
Grantees still filing
194/286
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Tree Trust — $54,000 · OtherTree TrustMINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER — $50,000 · OtherMINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTERHAVEN HOUSING — $50,000 · OtherHAVEN HOUSINGYouth Farm and Market Project — $50,000 · OtherYouth Farm and Market ProjectVISION LOSS RESOURCES INC — $49,000 · OtherVISION LOSS RESOURCES INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DA — $44,150 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH …WAYZATA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $36,000 · OtherGREAT RIVER GREENING — $54,000 · OtherGREAT RIVER GREENINGGENDER JUSTICE — $26,700 · Other+95 more — $332,004 · Other+95 moreThe Cedar Cultural Center Inc — $65,500 · Arts & CultureThe Cedar Cultural Cente…GF COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $52,500 · Arts & CultureGF COUNTY HISTORICAL SOC…UPSTREAM ARTS INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureUPSTREAM ARTS INCHENNEPIN HISTORY MUSEUM — $50,000 · Arts & CultureHENNEPIN HISTORY MUSEUMMINNESOTA LANDMARKS INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA LANDMARKS INCMIZNA — $29,000 · Arts & CultureMIZNAAlive & Kickin — $16,700 · Arts & CultureLAKE MINNETONKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $14,000 · Arts & CultureFRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS — $13,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $34,645 · Arts & Culture+11 moreVOYAGEURS CONSERVANCY — $51,400 · EnvironmentVOYAGEURS C…FRESH ENERGY — $50,000 · EnvironmentFRESH ENERG…SHELBURNE FARMS — $28,200 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE F…COALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA — $9,250 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVE — $6,000 · Environment+12 more — $29,451 · Environment+12 moreURBAN BOATBUILDERS INC — $54,250 · Youth DevelopmentHOPE 4 Youth — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentAVENUES FOR YOUTH — $4,825 · Youth Development+4 more — $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK — $50,000 · EducationWilliams College — $13,450 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $6,150 · EducationLiteracy Volunteers of Santa Fe — $5,805 · EducationACEQUIA MADRE PTC INC — $5,500 · EducationST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL — $4,750 · EducationTHE BLAKE SCHOOL — $4,300 · Education+14 more — $30,505 · EducationESPERANZA UNITED — $57,500 · Human ServicesBILINGUAL EDUCATION COLLECTIVE — $13,500 · Human ServicesEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT — $7,800 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $4,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDLY HOUSE INC — $3,900 · Human Services+12 more — $26,282 · Human ServicesWillowind Therapeutic Riding Center Inc — $37,500 · HealthTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $19,250 · HealthGERARD'S HOUSE — $4,500 · HealthTREEHOUSE INC — $4,000 · HealthTUBMAN — $3,000 · HealthHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION — $3,000 · HealthCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY San Francisco Bay Area — $2,915 · Health+7 more — $8,900 · Health
Other$745,854Arts & Culture$375,345Environment$174,301Youth Development$122,075Education$120,460Human Services$112,982Health$83,065

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Cedar Cultural Center Inc — $65,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetESPERANZA UNITED — $57,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN BOATBUILDERS INC — $54,250 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetTree Trust — $54,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGREAT RIVER GREENING — $54,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGF COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $52,500 over 9y, 7.4% of budgetVOYAGEURS CONSERVANCY — $51,400 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetUPSTREAM ARTS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetFRESH ENERGY — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHAVEN HOUSING — $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHENNEPIN HISTORY MUSEUM — $50,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetHOPE 4 Youth — $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetYouth Farm and Market Project — $50,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetMINNESOTA LANDMARKS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetVISION LOSS RESOURCES INC — $49,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWillowind Therapeutic Riding Center Inc — $37,500 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetMIZNA — $29,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS — $28,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGENDER JUSTICE — $26,700 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $19,250 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAlive & Kickin — $16,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $15,675 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE MINNETONKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $14,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetBILINGUAL EDUCATION COLLECTIVE — $13,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetInternational Academy of Fine Art — $13,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWilliams College — $13,450 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS — $13,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation — $12,442 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH SCIENCE INSTITUTE — $11,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHero To A Child Inc — $9,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA — $9,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMOGOLLON SPORTING ASSOCIATION INC — $8,700 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetURBAN SQUASH TWIN CITIES — $8,050 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSTEAMBOAT SPGS COUNCIL OF THE ARTS & HUMANITIES — $8,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOND BETWEEN — $7,925 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT — $7,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE PLUS — $7,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTEDFORD HOUSING — $6,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $6,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVE — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLiteracy Volunteers of Santa Fe — $5,805 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetBAR HARBOR FESTIVAL CORPORATION — $5,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetACEQUIA MADRE PTC INC — $5,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated — $5,074 over 5y, 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 The Cedar Cultural Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds ESPERANZA UNITED ↗
  • Who funds URBAN BOATBUILDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Tree Trust ↗
  • Who funds GREAT RIVER GREENING ↗
  • Who funds GF COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds VOYAGEURS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds UPSTREAM ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRESH ENERGY ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds HAVEN HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds HENNEPIN HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds HOPE 4 Youth ↗
  • Who funds Youth Farm and Market Project ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA LANDMARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds VISION LOSS RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds Willowind Therapeutic Riding Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds MIZNA ↗
  • Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
  • Who funds GENDER JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds Alive & Kickin ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds LAKE MINNETONKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BILINGUAL EDUCATION COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds International Academy of Fine Art ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS ↗
  • Who funds University of Southern Maine Foundation ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH SCIENCE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds Hero To A Child Inc ↗
  • Who funds COALITION TO RESTORE COASTAL LOUISIANA ↗
  • Who funds MOGOLLON SPORTING ASSOCIATION 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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Fr Bigelow FoundationMargaret a Cargill Fo…The Jamf Nation Globa…Pohlad Family Foundat…Xcel Energy FoundationPatrick and Aimee But…The McKnight Foundati…The K FoundationOtto Bremer TrustHardenbergh Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN56.1× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family · The McKnight Foundation · The K Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Hardenbergh 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 Nash 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Selah Freedom Inc — 53% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
  • Windsor Public Library — 9% of income from government
  • Friendly House Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Waldorf School — 4% of income from government
  • The Grammar School Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
  • Cover Home Repair Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Worcester — 2% of income from government
  • The Sisters of Saint Ann Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy — 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
  • Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
  • Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
52report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Nash Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Nash 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 326 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home