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The Nemec Family Fund at a glance

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The Nemec Family Fund

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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$208kEducation$169kFood & Nutrition$50kRecreation & Sports$29kHuman Services$25kPhilanthropy$20kReligion$10kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Children's School$25,000
National Cathedral School$10,000
Adaptive sports at Mount Snow$10,000
THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION$5,000
Concord Hill School$5,000
A WIDER CIRCLE INC$5,000
THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA$2,500
NEW CANAAN SCHOOL INC$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%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

VT
NH
NY
PA
CT
VA
MD
NC
DC
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$328k · 8 repeat orgs$195k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$328k
$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+16%

Still filing today

75%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $118k · revenue +70%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S SCHOOL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +8%
  • CH
    CONCORD HILL SCHOOL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $34k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $70k · revenue +45%
  • CF
    CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +64%
  • TH
    The Histiocure Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -60%
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
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
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
3
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
4
Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
Physicians Organization at Children's Hospital Inc

The Organization operates exclusively for the benefit of the charitable purposes of Boston Children's Hospital (the Hospital) and the affiliated Foundations. It works jointly with the Hospital and the Foundations in developing and…

Health
7
Children's Hospital & Medical Center

To improve the life of every child - through exceptional care, advocacy, research and education.

Health
8
Children's Hospital Pathology Foundation Inc

The Foundation's mission is to provide pathology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the field…

Health
9
Children's Hospital Ophthalmology Foundation Inc

The Foundation's mission is to provide ophthalmology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the…

Health
10
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Children's Medical Center Corporation

To operate exclusively for the benefit of The Children's Hospital Corporation and its affiliated organizations in the conduct of their charitable, educational and scientific functions.

Health
12
Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation

Children's nebraska foundation (the foundation) was created in 1981 to raise awareness and manage and distribute funds to support children's hospital & medical center's (the hospital) premier pediatric services and programs. as an advocate…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is The Histiocure Foundation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $118,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUN…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $70,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIAThe Histiocure Foundation: $20,000 · HealthThe Histiocure FoundationTHE CHILDREN'S SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationTHE CHILDREN'S SCHOOLCONCORD HILL SCHOOL: $33,500 · EducationCONCORD HILL SCHOOLTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $30,000 · EducationTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL…A WIDER CIRCLE INC: $20,000 · EducationA WIDER CIRCLE INC+1 more: $2,500 · EducationPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D OF C: $37,500 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDR…CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $35,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCAdaptive sports at Mount Snow: $28,750 · OtherAdaptive sports at Mount Sno…Child Guidance Center: $15,000 · OtherChild Guidance CenterST CLEMENT POPE CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherST CLEMENT POPE CHURCH+2 more: $5,000 · OtherPERSON TO PERSON INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesZADOCK PRATT MUSEUM INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$208,000Education$136,000Other$131,250Philanthropy$20,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Human Services$10,000Arts & Culture$5,000

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 budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $118,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $70,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S SCHOOL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD HILL SCHOOL: $33,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Histiocure Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZADOCK PRATT MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE: $2,500 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.

The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 Nemec Family Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Nemec Family Fund 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 19 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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