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THE NIVISON FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$665k
Granted FY2024
62
Grants
17
Communities
$119k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of THE NIVISON FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
scholarships buildingwilliam mildredinternationalradio lumierechildren
2019
internationalscholarshipradio lumierescholarships buildingresearchwilliam mildredchildren
2020
children'szambian biblepresbyterian
2021
zambian biblechildren'spresbyterian
2022
zambian biblechildren'spresbyterian
2023
children'szambian biblepresbyterianchrist
2024
children'szambian biblepresbyterian
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 62 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $152k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $395k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $119k
$9,500
Median grant
17
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
- UNION PRESBYTERIAN SEMINARY$119,425
- SAMARITAN'S PURSE$22,500
- NC STATE UNIVERSITY$18,750
- SOUTHEASTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL$18,750
- CHRIST BAPTIST CHURCH$17,500
- SIM USA$17,500
- YMCA TRIANGLE$15,000
- ZAMBIAN BIBLE COLLEGE$15,000
- ST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH$15,000
- LEAST OF THESE MINISTRIES$15,000
- OPEN DOOR EASTERN EUROPE MINISTRIES$15,000
- REINHARDT UNIVERSITY$12,500
- COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$12,500
- WORLD GOSPEL MISSION$12,500
- WAKE TECH FOUNDATION$12,500
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of THE NIVISON FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 48% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 18% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
THE NIVISON FAMILY FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 52% directed abroad (not shown)Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 78 repeat orgs$443k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
78
10
Total granted
$3.9M
$433k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+51%
+20%
Still filing today
26%
30%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthReligionAnimalsOther
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
NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +111%- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE5× · 2020–2024 · $73k · revenue +134%
- CICOLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- RRRALEIGH RESCUE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $250k
- UPUNION PRESBYTERIAN THEOLGICAL SEMINARYone grant, 2019 · $123k
- CCCHRIST CHURCH WINDSORone grant, 2023 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Trinity International University
Trinity international university offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees through four schools at locations in illinois, florida, and california.
Education
2
Regent University
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
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3
Central Methodist University
Central methodist university fosters a diverse and caring community, empowering students to become lifelong learners, committed to academic excellence, prepared to engage in a complex world.
Education
4
Messiah University
Messiah university is a christian university of the liberal and applied arts and sciences, offering undergraduate and graduate level programs.
Education
5
Trinity University
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Education
6
Oklahoma Christian University
Oklahoma Christian University Exists to educate, mentor, and inspire students to fulfill their potential and transform their lives through Christian faith, scholarship, and service.
Education
7
Christian Brothers University
Christian brothers university is a private, catholic comprehensive university committed to preparing students of all faiths and backgrounds to excel in their professional and public lives by providing challenging educational opportunities…
Education
8
Cedarville University
Cedarville university transforms lives through excellent education and intentional discipleship in submission to biblical authority.
Education
9
Louisiana Christian University
Operation of baptist college campus
Education
10
Houston Christian University
To provide instruction for approximately 5,200 students in undergraduate and graduate courses.
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11
Olivet University
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Education
12
Concordia University
Concordia university nebraska's mission is to be an excellent academic and christ-centered community equipping men and women for lives of learning, service and leadership in the church and the world. we primarily do this by providing…
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbell University and the most unlike its peers is Reinhardt University. 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.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
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 45 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
13%
6,816/53,152
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.
06the grantee network
24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$3,430,815Education$447,500Human Services$196,000Animals$85,000Religion$72,500Health$47,500International$45,500
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 NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEAST OF THESE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds REINHARDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE REINS ↗
- Who funds LETOURNEAU UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Tulsa Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Winston-Salem Foundation
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 organisation THE NIVISON 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LEAST OF THESE MINISTRIES.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +51% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 232693638 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on LEAST OF THESE MINISTRIES, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Nivison Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Nivison Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines