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The Nehring 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.

$212k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$447kPublic Benefit$173kHealth$170kArts & Culture$124kCrime & Legal$108kAnimals$74kFood & Nutrition$71kEducation$56kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $161k
$8,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOUNT CLARET CENTER$21,000
WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND LIBERTY$18,000
YOUNG AMERICANS$17,000
GOLDWATER INSTITUTE$17,000
ST THERESA'S PARISH$16,000
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE$15,000
FROEDTERT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$13,000
ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY$12,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$12,000
HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY$10,000
PHOENIX RESCUE MISSION$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$8,000
FEDERALIST SOCIETY$6,000
PASTORAL CARE ASSOCIATION$5,000
ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$5,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN: $1k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN: $1k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN: $1k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN: $1k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $10k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $10k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $10k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $10k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $9k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $9k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $9k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $7k → 11%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $7k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 35 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
10

Total granted

$1.3M
$22k

Still filing today

51%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
ReligionPublic BenefitCrime & LegalHuman ServicesHealthEducationOther

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

  • BG
    BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +97%
  • WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +186%
  • HO
    Hospice of the Valley
    9× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • CO
    CITY OF TWO RIVERS
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • SV
    SW VETERANS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $2k

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
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
2
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
3
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
4
American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona

The american civil liberties union of arizona is the state's premier guardian of liberty working through the arizona legislature and communities statewide to defend and preserve individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the…

5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…

Education
7
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
8
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.

9
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

10
Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Foundation

Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.

Health
11
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…

12
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Valley and the most unlike its peers is Pastoral Care Associates. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr15%10%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr13%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%6%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%49%35–55yr13%11%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
1/24
the rest of the field
14%
5,830/40,409

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

20 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. 20 of the 45 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOUNT CLARET CENTER — $138,000 · OtherMOUNT CLARET CENTERST THERESA'S PARISH — $109,000 · OtherST THERESA'S PARISHTHE YOUNG AMERICANS INC — $100,000 · OtherTHE YOUNG AMERICANS INCTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $47,000 · OtherTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIESMEDICAL COLLEGE OF WI — $40,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $39,500 · OtherST FRANCIS XAVIER PARISH — $37,000 · OtherFroedtert Hospital Foundation Inc — $35,000 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $29,000 · Other+25 more — $176,500 · Other+25 moreDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $64,000 · ReligionDIOCESAN COU…PASTORAL CARE ASSOCIATES — $42,000 · ReligionPASTORAL CAR…PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION — $38,500 · ReligionPHOENIX GOSP…BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $110,000 · Public BenefitBARRY GOLD…JUDICIAL WATCH INC — $11,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL W…WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY — $90,500 · Crime & LegalNRA FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 · Crime & LegalHospice of the Valley — $80,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesArizona Humane Society — $74,000 · AnimalsST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $70,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$751,000Religion$144,500Public Benefit$121,000Crime & Legal$98,500Human Services$84,500Animals$74,000Food & Nutrition$70,500

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 budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $110,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG AMERICANS INC — $100,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY — $90,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetHospice of the Valley — $80,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Humane Society — $74,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $70,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $64,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $47,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPASTORAL CARE ASSOCIATES — $42,000 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION — $38,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFroedtert Hospital Foundation Inc — $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT FOOTHILLS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $9,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNRA FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN — $7,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $4,000 over 4y, 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 BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
  • Who funds THE YOUNG AMERICANS INC
  • Who funds WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY
  • Who funds Hospice of the Valley
  • Who funds Arizona Humane Society
  • Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
  • Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX
  • Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES
  • Who funds PASTORAL CARE ASSOCIATES
  • Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION
  • Who funds Froedtert Hospital Foundation Inc
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC
  • Who funds LAND O' LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN
  • Who funds DESERT FOOTHILLS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds NRA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE 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.

Baird Foundation IncWI11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Nehring 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 45 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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