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Cecilia Hand Nelson and Morgan Hand II at a glance

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Cecilia Hand Nelson and Morgan Hand II

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.

$77k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$556kReligion$2kHealth$1k
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
16
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY$4,500
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY$4,500
ROWAN UNIVERSITY$4,500
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$4,000
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURG$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA$3,000
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY$3,000
COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY$3,000
WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$2,000
MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $7k → 10%WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY: $7k → 6%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 22%HORRY GEORGETOWN TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $4k → 13%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA: $8k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $6k → 15%HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%LOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY: $5k → 6%ROWAN UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $9k → 8%COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY: $5k → 11%STOCKTON UNIVERSITY: $7k → 11%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 6%LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: $3k → 20%VIRGINIA TECH: $3k → 21%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $6k → 10%WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY: $5k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURG: $4k → 11%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA: $4k → 13%ROWAN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY: $4k → 11%STOCKTON UNIVERSITY: $6k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $5k → 10%WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY: $4k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA: $3k → 13%ROWAN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 8%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%STOCKTON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $4k → 10%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $4k → 13%ROWAN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 8%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $4k → 10%ROWAN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%STOCKTON COLLEGE: $9k → 11%ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $5k → 22%ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $4k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$472k · 60 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
27

Total granted

$472k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+7%

Still filing today

57%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    6× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +37%
  • SJ
    SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $16k · revenue +22%
  • TU
    The University of Tampa Incorporated
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • SC
    STOCKTON COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $9k
  • TG
    The George Washington Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +30%
  • HG
    HORRY GEORGETOWN TECHNICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
4
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
7
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
10
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
12
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Thomas Jefferson University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 97 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
43/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $35,450 · OtherRUTGERS UNIVERSITYROWAN UNIVERSITY: $31,200 · OtherROWAN UNIVERSITYSTOCKTON UNIVERSITY: $27,650 · OtherSTOCKTON UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $27,600 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWAREWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY: $21,100 · OtherWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITYCOLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY: $19,000 · OtherCOLLEGE OF NEW JERSEYCarnegie Mellon University: $12,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN: $12,250 · OtherCOASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $11,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $11,200 · Other+38 more: $121,100 · Other+38 moreSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $16,000 · EducationSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITYThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $15,000 · EducationThe University of Tampa IncorporatedMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $12,500 · EducationMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INCWIDENER UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $8,200 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $8,000 · EducationBucknell University: $8,000 · Education+42 more: $150,550 · Education+42 more
Other$330,550Education$228,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $27,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWIDENER UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $8,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetURSINUS COLLEGE: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $7,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $6,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $6,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOUCHER COLLEGE: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $5,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin College of Indiana: $3,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $3,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI: $3,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAGNER COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA SALLE UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The University of Tampa Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds WIDENER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds Bucknell University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds URSINUS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GOUCHER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds MUHLENBERG COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds The George Washington University ↗
  • Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗

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.

Enterprise Holdings F…Verizon FoundationThe Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Enterprise Holdings FoundationMO11.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cecilia Hand Nelson and Morgan Hand II funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cecilia Hand Nelson and Morgan Hand II. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology: 12% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • Florida Institute of Technology Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
  • Stetson University Inc: 1% of income from government
  • University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
  • Rider University: 1% of income from government
  • Goucher College: 1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 0% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Stevenson University: 0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Cecilia Hand Nelson and Morgan Hand II?

Find your warmest path to Cecilia Hand Nelson and Morgan Hand II 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.

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 97 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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