California · Nonprofit
William G Nash Foundation
William G Nash Foundation (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $480,442 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($268,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $164k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $480k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What William G Nash Foundation does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
During 2024 and the first four months of 2025, the William G. Nash Foundation acted as a fiscal sponsor for a psychedelic safety education campaign (CPSE Project). In 2025 The Tides Foundation became fiscal sponsor to CPSE and all remaining assets were transferred at that time.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Pilot Public Health Education Campaign: Before You Trip As fiscal sponsor of CPSE, the William G. Nash Foundation provided intellectual, management, and financial resources toward the launch of Before You Trip, a pilot digital education campaign created by and for Gen Z. The Foundation managed restricted contributions, handled bookkeeping, and processed vendor disbursements, charging zero administrative or oversight fees to ensure 100% of donor capital was deployed for programmatic impact. At launch, the Foundation concluded its fiscal sponsorship. Impact Results (Pilot: Colorado, Ages 1830): *Reached 822,000 unique individuals in Denver, Boulder and Aspen, with an average exposure rate of 5.96 times. *Delivered 5,218,257 impressions at an average CPM of $9.73 (within the $5$10 benchmark). *Achieved a 1.03% overall CTR, with influencer content reaching 1.64%, surpassing industry benchmarks. *Generated 66,000 visits to BeforeYouTrip.org. *Recorded significant increases in both perceived and actual knowledge of risks and harm reduction strategies among the target audience. Closing out fiscal sponsorship totaled:$154,126.
$486,077 spentof which $154,126 as grants88% of program spendingGrantmaking totaled $60,000: *Challenging Psychedelic Experiences Project: We provided a grant to support research, communication and support services related to adverse events and extended difficulties. *UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics: We provided a grant toward a planned summit to gather key opinion leaders and stakeholders around comprehensive, responsible policy reform. *Fireside Project: We provided a grant to support crisis peer-support, research, education, and psychedelic coaching, preparation and integration.
$63,760 spentof which $60,000 as grants12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $549,837.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.4M to $2.0M (+42%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
82% of William G Nash Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Leonard W Nash
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of William G Nash Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
William G Nash Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund William G Nash Foundation.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
90% of William G Nash Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $50k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $430k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
William G Nash Foundation's revenue fell 84% between 2022 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for William G Nash Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds William G Nash Foundation?
- William G Nash Foundation (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $480,442 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($268,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does William G Nash Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $480,442 in grants to William G Nash Foundation, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of William G Nash Foundation?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $268,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like William G Nash Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing