· Private foundation
The Nesi Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $192k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $100,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| BROWN ANNUAL FUND | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC | $50,000 |
| HORIZONS AT GREENS FARMS ACADEMY | $39,300 |
| GREENFIELD HILL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $25,509 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $25,000 |
| NEWDAY INTAKE CENTER | $15,450 |
| BRONX LACROSSE | $15,000 |
| PROJECT 8P FOUNDATION | $11,330 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $10,000 |
| NO GREATER SACRIFICE | $10,000 |
| SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
51 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
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
- AJADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $327k · revenue ×24
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +47%
GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC2× · 2017–2024 · $149k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- TMTHOMAS MERTON FAMILY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $50k
- CECHARITY EVENT HT TPSGIVERYNYone grant, 2022 · $34k
- ETE TOWNgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +63%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc and the most unlike its peers is Okemo Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
64 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. 64 of the 118 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds No Greater Sacrifice Foundation ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF THE ROAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds E TOWN ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DAY INTAKE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Powherful Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds READ ALLIANCE 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.
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
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 Nesi Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
- Baltimore Squashwise Inc — 23% of income from government
- Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc — 15% of income from government
- Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp — 11% of income from government
- Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Inc — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
- Fairfield Historical Society Dba Fairfield Museum — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Pequot Library Association — 0% of income from government
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.