· Private foundation
The Nowiczewski Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $69k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LETOURNEAU UNIV | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| GRACE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY | $15,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS | $14,000 |
| GENEVA COLLEGE | $4,600 |
| INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $4,600 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $4,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $3,000 |
| WESTERN SEMINARY | $2,000 |
| PIONEERS | $1,500 |
| EAST-WEST MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $1,500 |
| HOPE4 BURUNDI | $1,200 |
| OUT DAILY BREAD MINISTRIES | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 5 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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k 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
- GSGRACE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY6× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +10%
- ACASBURY COLLEGE7× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +17%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL7× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- MBMAGNOLIA BIBLE CHURCH INCone grant, 2017 · $30k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONone grant, 2018 · $5k
- SDSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $4k
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.
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.
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.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
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.
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
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…
East texas baptist university (etbu) was founded in 1912 as a fully accredited institution of higher education. affiliated with the baptist general convention of texas, etbu educates students by integrating biblical faith and learning to…
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lancaster Bible College and the most unlike its peers is Hope4Burundi. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 60 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 LeTourneau University ↗
- Who funds GRACE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY ↗
- Who funds ASBURY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEXICO MEDICAL MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Agape Flights Inc ↗
- Who funds Hope4Burundi ↗
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: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Texas Instruments Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Nowiczewski 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.
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.
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