How much does The Nivison Family Foundation give?

The Nivison Family Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $665,425 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 58 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Nivison Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (35%), Religion (18%), Animals (10%).

Who are The Nivison Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Union Presbyterian Seminary ($620k), Christ Baptist Church ($131k), North Carolina Veterinary Medical Foundation Inc ($90k).

Does The Nivison Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Nivison 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 Nivison Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation.

Where is The Nivison Family Foundation based?

The Nivison Family Foundation is based in NC.

The Nivison Family Foundation

The Nivison Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Nivison 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.

$665k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$119k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.5MReligion$780kAnimals$425kInternational$386kHuman Services$209kHealth$203kHousing & Shelter$194kPhilanthropy$120kOther$0

02FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k32 grants · $152k
$10k–50k29 grants · $395k
$50k–250k1 grant · $119k

$9,500

Median grant

States reached

$19M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNION PRESBYTERIAN SEMINARY	$119,425
SAMARITAN'S PURSE	$22,500
Individual grant recipient	$18,750
NC STATE UNIVERSITY	$18,750
SIM USA	$17,500
CHRIST BAPTIST CHURCH	$17,500
ZAMBIAN BIBLE COLLEGE	$15,000
Individual grant recipient	$15,000
OPEN DOOR EASTERN EUROPE MINISTRIES	$15,000
ST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH	$15,000
LEAST OF THESE MINISTRIES	$15,000
REINHARDT UNIVERSITY	$12,500
CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY	$12,500
MEREDITH COLLEGE	$12,500
STANFORD UNIVERSITY	$12,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 25% of The Nivison Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 48% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 17%.

The Nivison Family Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 53% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.8M · 74 repeat orgs$430k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

74 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.8M

$420k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+23%

Still filing today

46%

38%

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 ServicesHealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentReligionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

NC
NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +238%
SP
SAMARITAN'S PURSE
8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +134%
NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +125%

Funded once

RR
RALEIGH RESCUE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $250k
UP
UNION PRESBYTERIAN THEOLGICAL SEMINARY
one grant, 2019 · $123k
SB
SOUTHEASTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEM
one grant, 2019 · $10k

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.

04Its field

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.

Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education

California Baptist University

A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.

Education

Furman University

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.

Education

North Greenville University

North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.

Education

Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education

Mid-Atlantic Christian University

Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…

Education

Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education

George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education

Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education

Northeastern Seminary

Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…

Education

Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education

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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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 87 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/40

Grantees still filing

35/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,959,315Education$788,000Human Services$197,000Health$115,000International$107,000Religion$87,500Animals$85,000Youth Development$31,000

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.

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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC20.6× affinity8 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 · Duke Energy Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · John William Pope Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Crossroads Fellowship Foundation · O Temple Sloan Jr Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Fidelity Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Nivison Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nivison Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home