· Private foundation
Brad and Laura Nielsen Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Down Syndrome Alliance | $20,000 |
| Abide Network | $20,000 |
| Lutheran Family Services | $15,000 |
| Open Door Mission | $10,000 |
| Assure Womens Center | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $105k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AWAssure Womens Center6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +106%
- LFLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +35%
- ODOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- IRIntegrated Refugee Servicesone grant, 2020 · $1k
- LALOAVES AND FISHES NEW HAVEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +65%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $500
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.
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.
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
To provide healthcare and related services.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
None
Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement. our vision is a nebraska where all children will have the resources and support to reach their full potential. our values are (1)…
End hunger together.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ABIDE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Assure Womens Center ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds ALL OUR KIN INC ↗
- Who funds NET FOUNDATION FOR TELEVISION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Growing Good Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brad and Laura Nielsen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brad and Laura Nielsen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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