· Private foundation
The Nesburn Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DISCOVERY EYE FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| ASPEN VALLEY SKI & SNOWBOARD CLUB | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION TIKVAT JACOB BETH TORAH | $3,844 |
| HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| IRIS CANTOR UCLA WOMENS CENTER | $2,000 |
| REDONDO BEACH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| MOCA | $1,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF MASS EYE & EAR | $1,000 |
| RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS | $1,000 |
| LACMA | $650 |
| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | $500 |
| CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $500 |
| BRAILLE INSTITUTE | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $6k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DEDISCOVERY EYE FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +48%
- SCSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +26%
- HBHERMOSA BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- RDRecursos de Santa Feone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -39%
- VEVIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +37%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 45 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DISCOVERY EYE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HERMOSA BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Recursos de Santa Fe ↗
- Who funds PS ARTS ↗
- Who funds VIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE RAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds REDONDO BEACH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENRYS HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The J Paul Getty Trust · California Community Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Nesburn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nesburn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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