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William G Nash Foundation

Provide and promote drug education, harm reduction and culture and policy change at schools and universities; promote public safety and wellness on school campuses; promote social entrepreneurship, especially among students and young people.

$214k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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51% of William G Nash Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Tides Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’22
1
’23
3
’24
4
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$109,086
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations William G Nash Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
HealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$105k50%
FY20243$86k100%
FY20231$10k0%
FY20221$25kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$201kPhilanthropy$109kSocial Science$25k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Psychedelic Safety & Education Coalition CPSE$95,040299%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley$51,0002n/a
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health$35,00020%
Emergence Benefactors$25,00014%
Fireside Project Inc$10,0001n/a
Psychedelic Safety Institue$10,0001n/a

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About William G Nash Foundation

How much does William G Nash Foundation give?
William G Nash Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $214,126 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does William G Nash Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (60%), Philanthropy (33%), Social Science (7%).
Who are William G Nash Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Psychedelic Safety & Education Coalition CPSE ($95k), Regents of the University of California at Berkeley ($51k), Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health ($35k).
Does William G Nash Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is William G Nash Foundation based?
William G Nash Foundation is based in CA.

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 7 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 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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