· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $247k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Force Blue | $89,826 |
| Junior Achievement So Nevada | $50,000 |
| The Children's School | $40,000 |
| Heritage Christian School | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Virginia City Ice | $20,000 |
| Madison Valley Medical Center | $20,000 |
| Erics Camp Fund | $20,000 |
| Valley Presbyterian Church | $15,000 |
| Rocky Mountain Baptist Church | $11,220 |
| Madison Valley Baptist Church | $11,075 |
| Madison Valley Ranchlands | $10,000 |
| Casa de Amma | $10,000 |
| Madison Valley Nursing Homes Foundation | $10,000 |
| Ennis Rodeo | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against -77% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 7 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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CRAIG SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $976k · revenue +162% · 41% of their budget
- ECERICS CAMP FUNDErics Camp Fund6× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +14%
- SASTAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER4× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- FBFORCE BLUE INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -84%
- BRBATON ROUGE EMERGENCY AID COALITIONone grant, 2019 · $52k · revenue -77% · 42% of their budget
- 1S116th Street Schoolone grant, 2019 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Your independent community health system is dedicated to providing high quality, innovative and affordable healthcare for the well-being of our community.
The primary mission or purpose of methodist health system is to serve people in defined service areas by meeting their health needs effectively and in a manner that reflects a "commitment to the christian concepts of life and learning" as…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Carley's angels, senior sanctuary and hospice, is a foster driven rescue dedicated to providing senior, treminal, and criticaly endangered animals a loving home to live out their end days. our dogs, and sometimes cats, are almost always…
Rooted in a tradition of Christian service, Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville expands access to high quality healthcare delivered with a compassionate and nurturing spirit to all.
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.
To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.
Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Valley Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is Madison Valley Ranchlands Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE CRAIG SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FORCE BLUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC ↗
- Who funds ERICS CAMP FUNDErics Camp Fund ↗
- Who funds Madison County Nursing Home Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds MADISON VALLEY RANCHLANDS GROUP ↗
- Who funds BATON ROUGE EMERGENCY AID COALITION ↗
- Who funds MADISON VALLEY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CASA DE AMMA ↗
- Who funds STANDING WITH HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ENNIS RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTMED INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HILLCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL DBA HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ANGEL CITY PIT BULLS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization C and M Nelson Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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