· Private foundation
Carl A Nelson Charitable 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 |
|---|---|
| BURLINGTON AREA YMCA | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| YOUNGHOUSE FAMILY SERVICES | $1,900 |
| YMCA OF WASHINGTON COUNTY IOWA | $1,500 |
| FORT MADISON FAMILY YMCA | $1,500 |
| HEARTSONG | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SE IOWA REGIONAL HOSPICE | $750 |
| BURLINGTON AREA HOMELESS SHELTER | $750 |
| ADDS OF SE IOWA | $500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| U OF IA DANCE MARATHON | $500 |
| CEDAR RIVER HAVEN | $500 |
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, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BABURLINGTON AREA YMCA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +71%
- BABURLINGTON AREA HOMELESS SHELTER5× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +43%
- TDTransitions DMC Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $1k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- MPMID PRAIRIE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +9%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.
To provide a highly structured environment which emphasizes a safety and security to all juveniles while serving as a deterrent to criminal and anti-social behaviors. Working youth in the center and communities.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Child day care center
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
Community action of eastern iowa respectfully partners with people to improve their health, finances, and education.
Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.
Prevent criminal activity and reduce populations in correctional facilities by treatment, education and counseling to persons with addictions, which often result in criminal behavior.
Christian caring - enhancing lives through a commitment to individualized care in a home empowered by god's love.
Reach for your potential, inc is a provider of adult daycare services and rehabilitation/housing of disabled individuals serving approximately 135 individuals from iowa city and the surrounding communities.
Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 71 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.
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust · Burlington W Burlington Area United Way · Harry & Virginia Murray Foundation · Max and Helen Guernsey Charitable Foundation · R J McElroy Trust · Otto Schoitz Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine · GreenState Credit Union · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carl A Nelson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carl A Nelson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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