New York · Private foundation
The Nesi 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.
- $494k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $52,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations The Nesi Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $474k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $531k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $399k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $253k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $293k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $183k | 48% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $181k | 39% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $153k | 19% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adam J Lewis Academy Inc | $379,850 | 9 | 3% |
| Georgetown University | $295,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Greens Farms Academy Inc | $164,300 | 3 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $106,050 | 5 | 0% |
| Bronx Lacrosse Inc Co Ota | $98,618 | 7 | 2% |
| Catholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Inner City Scholarship Fund Inc | $60,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Greenfield Hill Congregational Church | $52,545 | 2 | n/a |
| No Greater Sacrifice Foundation | $52,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Circle of Care for Families of Children With Cancer Inc | $36,113 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Nesi Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc · Quidditch Foundation Inc Sheila J Clancy Trustee · Cannupa Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Driesman Charitable Trust · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · Tauck Family Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · Odyssey Group Foundation · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Nesi Family Foundation
- How much does The Nesi Family Foundation give?
- The Nesi Family Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $493,738 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Nesi Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (35%), Education (34%), Philanthropy (5%).
- Who are The Nesi Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Adam J Lewis Academy Inc ($380k), Georgetown University ($295k), Greens Farms Academy Inc ($164k).
- Does The Nesi Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Nesi Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Nesi Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc, Quidditch Foundation Inc Sheila J Clancy Trustee.
- Where is The Nesi Family Foundation based?
- The Nesi Family Foundation is based in NY.
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