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The Nuer Foundation at a glance

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The Nuer 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.

$2k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Civil Rights$19kEnvironment$8kScience & Tech$8kYouth Development$8kReligion$5kFood & Nutrition$5kInternational$4kCrime & Legal$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,030
Median grant
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States reached
$676k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SFMarin Food Bank$2,030
02The need
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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 (FY20–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $1k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $1k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $500 → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $500 → 10%Braver Angels: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

NH
WA
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
DC
HI
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 14% of The Nuer Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Nuer Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.3% 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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33k · 11 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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12

Total granted

$33k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
0%

Still filing today

82%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsInternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthReligionOther
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

  • CA
    CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +156%
  • CA
    CANAL ALLIANCE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +80%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
    3× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • OL
    OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -23%
  • RI
    REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -30%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
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.

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Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
4
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
5
Global Greengrants Fund

Global greengrants fund seeds grassroots environmental action and social justice through small grants. we support change from the ground up by channeling donations to local projects and grassroots campaigns for environmental justice around…

Environment
6
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
7
Isf Advisors Inc

Isf advisors is the leading strategic and financial advisory group committed to mobilizing capital for a more sustainable, equitable, and productive global food system.

Food & Nutrition
8
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
9
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
10
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
11
Partnersglobal

Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.

International
12
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Search for Common Ground; the most unlike its peers is Global Grassroots. 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

16 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. 16 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $5,000 · OtherOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INCYouth PassagewaysEver Forward: $4,582 · OtherYouth PassagewaysEver ForwardIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $3,560 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKTEXAS CIVIL LIBERTIES PROJECT: $2,000 · OtherTEXAS CIVIL LIBERTIES PROJECTMennonite Central Committee: $1,500 · OtherEffective Climate Change Policy: $1,437 · OtherEtty Hillesum House: $1,261 · Other+4 more: $4,021 · Other+4 moreREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $5,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRA…GLOBAL GRASSROOTS: $3,000 · Civil RightsGLOBAL GRASSROOTSAVAAZ FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Civil RightsAVAAZ FOUNDATIONCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $4,551 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TA…COALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT: $2,500 · EnvironmentCOALITION FO…THE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC: $3,033 · InternationalTHE ABRAH…SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND: $2,030 · InternationalSEARCH FO…CANAL ALLIANCE: $4,097 · ReligionHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $3,072 · Human ServicesBraver AngelsInc: $1,000 · Human ServicesSTROKE ONWARD INC: $1,015 · Health
Other$31,361Civil Rights$9,500Environment$7,051International$5,063Religion$4,097Human Services$4,072Health$1,015

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $4,551 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE: $4,097 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $3,560 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $3,072 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC: $3,033 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL GRASSROOTS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND: $2,030 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAVAAZ FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTROKE ONWARD INC: $1,015 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInformation Technology and Innovation Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBraver AngelsInc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Nuer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nuer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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