GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

Nash

Washington, DC · EIN 20-8987993. Reported 62 grants totalling $1,926,999 to 49 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

49organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$1,926,999granted, 2021-2024
40%of grantees funded again the next year
17%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Nash, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B05) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 49 distinct organizations, with 17% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 40% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $22,000; the smallest was $7,500 and the largest $299,999. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
16 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
32 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
5 grants
$250,000 Or More
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
AcueNew York, NY$322,499222024
Csu Office of the ChancellorLong Beach, CA$220,000222022
The Texas A&m University SystemCollege Station, TX$215,500332024
The University of Texas SystemAustin, TX$192,500112024
University of MissouriKansas City, MO$137,500222022
The City University of New YorkPhiladelphia, PA$137,000222022
University of Hawaii FoundationHonolulu, HI$55,000332024
Rhode Island Office of the PostsecoWarwick, RI$45,000112023
Consortium of Universities of WashiWashington, DC$40,000112024
Colorado State University SystemDenver, CO$37,500112023
Utah System of Higher EducationSalt Lake City, UT$37,500112024
Loisiana Board of RegentsBaton Rouge, LA$32,500112024
University System of MDHyattsville, MD$29,500112024
California State University FoundationLong Beach, CA$29,000222024
Texas State University System Foundation IncAustin, TX$27,500332024
University of MD College ParkCollege Park, MD$22,000112024
Southern Illinois University- CarbondaleCarbondale, IL$20,000112022
Ky Council on Postsecondary EducatiFrankfort, KY$17,500222023
Minnesota State UniversitySt Paul, MN$17,500222024
University of Louisiana System FoundationBaton Rouge, LA$17,500112023
The Universities of WisconsinMadison, WI$15,000112023
UC DavisLos Angeles, CA$15,000112024
New Mexico State UniversityLas Cruces, NM$11,500112023
Chico State EnterprisesChico, CA$10,000112024
Cypress CollegeCypress, CA$10,000112024
East Stroudsburg UniversityEast Stroudsberg, PA$10,000112024
Foundation for the Los Angeles CommLos Angeles, CA$10,000112024
Modesto Junior CollegeModesto, CA$10,000112024
Nebraska State CollegesLincoln, NE$10,000112022
Office of the Commissioner of HigheHelena, MT$10,000112022
Passhe Office of the ChancellorHarrisburg, PA$10,000112022
San Diegfo State UniversitySan Diego, CA$10,000112024
Sonoma State UniversityRohnert Park, CA$10,000112024
Southern University SystemBaton Rouge, LA$10,000112022
Southwestern CollegeChula Vista, CA$10,000112024
The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisUrbana, IL$10,000112022
The Regents of the University of CaSanta Barbara, CA$10,000112024
UC Office of the PresidentSan Diego, CA$10,000112024
Cerritos CollegeNorwalk, CA$7,500112024
Commonwealth University of PennsylvBloomsburg, PA$7,500112022
Fullerton CollegeAnaheim, CA$7,500112024
Glendale College FoundationGlendale, CA$7,500112024
Hartnell CollegeSalinas, CA$7,500112024
Lemoore CollegeCoalinga, CA$7,500112024
Maine Community College SystemAugusta, ME$7,500112024
Research Found of the City UniversiNew York, NY$7,500112024
SUNY System AdministrationAlbany, NY$7,500112024
The Regents of the University of CoDenver, CO$7,500112024
UC BerkeleyBerkeley, CA$7,500112024

10 of 49 (20%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 5 of 49 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
4 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20214$627,500$145,250
202215$167,500$10,000
202310$502,999$19,500
202433$629,000$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

23% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Texas
$436K
California
$399K
New York
$337K
Pennsylvania
$164K
Missouri
$138K
Louisiana
$60K
Hawaii
$55K
Maryland
$52K

Down to the city

New York, NY
$330K
Long Beach, CA
$249K
Austin, TX
$220K
College Station, TX
$216K
Kansas City, MO
$138K
Philadelphia, PA
$137K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Folds of Honor Foundation8 shared recipientsTulsa Community Foundation7 shared recipientsAmerican Chemical Society7 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust6 shared recipientsColumbus Foundation6 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund6 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Nash's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 1100 H Street Nw Suite 840, Washington, DC, 20005.

EIN 20-8987993 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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