· 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.
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 $10k29 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $137k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $253k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY | $52,500 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| BROWN ANNUAL FUND | $50,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $50,000 |
| BRONX LACROSSE | $50,000 |
| GREENFIELD HILL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $27,036 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC | $25,000 |
| ST JUDE HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| HORIZONS AT GREENS FARMS ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| NO GREATER SACRIFICE | $10,000 |
| GREENS FARM ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $10,000 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $7,800 |
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, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
58 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 6 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AJADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $380k · revenue ×24
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +47%
GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC3× · 2017–2025 · $164k · 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%
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.
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…
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
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.
Umass memorial health care, inc. is committed to improving the health of the people of central new england through excellence in clinical care, services, teaching, and research.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
How this is measured
71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 125 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 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 BRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds No Greater Sacrifice Foundation ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF THE ROAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds E TOWN ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DAY INTAKE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Powherful Foundation Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Nesi Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nesi Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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