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Nyholm Family Foundation Inc

Glendale, WI · EIN 39-1869651. Reported 64 grants totalling $13,425 to 34 recipients across tax years 2021-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$175median grant
$13,425granted, 2021-2023
34recipients, as named on its returns
$143,666assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Nyholm Family Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $175. Half of everything it gave fell between $150 and $250; the smallest was $50 and the largest $500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
64 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
ASPCAWashington, DC$1,000222023
World Wildlife FundWashington, DC$1,000222023
St Jude's Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$900222023
Jane Goodall InstituteDacula, GA$800222023
Defenders of WildlifeMerrifield, VA$700222023
International Fund for Animal WelfareWashington, DC$500222023
International Wolf CenterMinneapolis, MN$500222023
Save the ChimpsWashington, DC$500222023
Tiger HavenKnoxville, TN$500222023
Wisconsin Humane SocietyMilwaukee, WI$500222023
African Wildlife FoundationWashington, DC$400222023
Humane Society of the United StatesPhoenix, AZ$400222023
Noah's Lost ArkYoungstown, OH$400222023
Tiger CreekTyler, TX$400222023
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran SynodWaukesha, WI$400222023
American Humane AssociationWashington, DC$300222023
American Red CrossMilwaukee, WI$300222023
Guide Dog Foundation for the BlindSmithtown, NY$300222023
Guide Dogs for the BlindSan Rafael, CA$300222023
National Humane Education SocietyWashington, DC$300222023
National Wildlife FederationMerrifield, VA$300222023
Nature ConservancyAlbert Lea, MN$300222023
Ocean ConservancyWashington, DC$300222023
Wilderness SocietyWashington, DC$300222023
Milwaukee Rescue MissionMilwaukee, WI$250112023
Salvation ArmyMilwaukee, WI$250112023
Humane Animal Welfare SocietyWaukesha, WI$200222023
March of DimesDecatur, IL$200222023
National Audubon SocietyBoulder, CO$200222023
National Parks Conservation SocietyWashington, DC$200222023
Wisconsin Lutheran CollegeMilwaukee, WI$200222023
Wildlife Conservation SocietyPalm Coast, FL$125112021
Environmental Defense FundHagerstown, MD$100222023
Wisconsin Lutheran High SchoolMilwaukee, WI$100112023

30 of 34 (88%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 29 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Animal Welfare
18 grants
Environment
6 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Religion
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202131$6,425$150
202333$7,000$200

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

36% of its giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

District of Columbia
$5K
Wisconsin
$2K
Tennessee
$1K
Virginia
$1K
Minnesota
$800
Georgia
$800
Arizona
$400
Ohio
$400

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc14 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund14 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund13 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust12 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program12 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $175. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in District of Columbia.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Nyholm Family Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 2 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 2305 West Applewood Lane, Glendale, WI, 53209. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 39-1869651 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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