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C and M Nelson Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$402k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$11,220
Largest grant, FY2024
$89,826
Organizations funded a year
10 to 23
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$6.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations C and M Nelson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthAnimalsPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionOther
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
FY2024still arriving20$402k0%
FY202323$413k13%
FY202219$432k32%
FY202114$357k21%
FY202016$562k31%
FY201916$562k38%
FY201810$223k10%
FY201710$280kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.3MReligion$369kHealth$329kEnvironment$155kArts & Culture$100kRecreation & Sports$85kAnimals$68kPublic Safety & Disaster$52kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
NV
CA
KS
TN
SC
HI
LA
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Craig School$975,580841%
Valley Presbyterian Church$105,0007n/a
Force Blue Inc$100,000114%
Rocky Mountain Baptist Church$95,6508n/a
The National Museum of African American Music$80,00030%
ERICS CAMP FUNDErics Camp Fund$75,000613%
Madison County Nursing Home Foundation Inc$70,000745%
Stafford Animal Shelter$60,00042%
Virginia City Ice Inc$55,0004n/a
Madison Valley Ranchlands Group$55,00077%
Show all 18 grantees
All grantees of C and M Nelson Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Craig School$975,580841%
Valley Presbyterian Church$105,0007n/a
Force Blue Inc$100,000114%
Rocky Mountain Baptist Church$95,6508n/a
The National Museum of African American Music$80,00030%
ERICS CAMP FUNDErics Camp Fund$75,000613%
Madison County Nursing Home Foundation Inc$70,000745%
Stafford Animal Shelter$60,00042%
Virginia City Ice Inc$55,0004n/a
Madison Valley Ranchlands Group$55,00077%
Baton Rouge Emergency Aid Coalition$51,500142%
Madison Valley Hospital Inc$50,00030%
Casa de Amma$40,00040%
Standing With Hope Inc$30,00066%
Ennis Rodeo Inc$30,00035%
Connectmed International$20,00033%
Hillcrest Christian School Dba Heritage Christian School$10,00010%
Angel City Pit Bulls$7,50031%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

C and M Nelson Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Craig School: $975,580 over 8y, 41% of budgetForce Blue Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetThe National Museum of African American Music: $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetERICS CAMP FUNDErics Camp Fund: $75,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetMadison County Nursing Home Foundation Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 45% of budgetStafford Animal Shelter: $60,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMadison Valley Ranchlands Group: $55,000 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetBaton Rouge Emergency Aid Coalition: $51,500 over 1y, 42% of budgetMadison Valley Hospital Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCasa de Amma: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetStanding With Hope Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetEnnis Rodeo Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetConnectmed International: $20,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetHillcrest Christian School Dba Heritage Christian School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAngel City Pit Bulls: $7,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH8.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to C and M Nelson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to C and M Nelson Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About C and M Nelson Family Foundation

How much does C and M Nelson Family Foundation give?
C and M Nelson Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $401,586 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does C and M Nelson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (42%), Religion (11%), Health (10%).
Who are C and M Nelson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Craig School ($976k), Valley Presbyterian Church ($105k), Force Blue Inc ($100k).
Does C and M Nelson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does C and M Nelson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as C and M Nelson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is C and M Nelson Family Foundation based?
C and M Nelson Family 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 34 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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