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Charles Nelson Pease 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.

$22k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
56%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,130
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 13
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$266k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Charles Nelson Pease Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationAnimalsHealthCommunity ImprovementEmploymentRecreation & SportsOther
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
FY2025still arriving4$22k0%
FY20249$26k56%
FY20238$21k25%
FY202213$20k38%
FY202111$42k27%
FY202010$17k30%
FY201912$37k75%
FY201811$38k45%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$92kEducation$41kArts & Culture$22kPhilanthropy$21kCommunity Improvement$20kEmployment$20kReligion$12kRecreation & Sports$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
MI
NY
OH
CO
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Cancer Society Inc$80,87590%
The Junior League of Fort Worth Inc$20,04570%
Colorado Women's Employment & Education Inc$15,00020%
Denison University$12,50040%
Colgate University$10,50030%
University of Colorado Foundation$10,00020%
Denver Ballet Guild$5,07521%
Jewel Charity Ball Incorporated$5,00020%
Kent Denver Country Day School$5,00010%
All Saints Episcopal Church$4,1004n/a
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charles Nelson Pease Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $80,875 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Junior League of Fort Worth Inc: $20,045 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetColorado Women's Employment & Education Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDenison University: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColgate University: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Ballet Guild: $5,075 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetJewel Charity Ball Incorporated: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKent Denver Country Day School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Trier Hockey Club Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Anne's Episcopal School Inc: $1,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Debutante Ball Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetKalamazoo Animal Rescue: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Kelly S Brush Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Lights: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRutledge Cancer Foundation: $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHigh Line Canal Conservancy: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Burley: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnBound North Texas: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShedd Aquarium Society: $235 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDfw Rescue Me Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA Wish With Wings Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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 24.

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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.

Baird Foundation IncWI15.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · The Roach Foundation Inc · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Colorado Gives Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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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About Charles Nelson Pease Foundation

How much does Charles Nelson Pease Foundation give?
Charles Nelson Pease Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $22,330 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Charles Nelson Pease Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (38%), Education (17%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are Charles Nelson Pease Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Cancer Society Inc ($81k), The Junior League of Fort Worth Inc ($20k), Colorado Women's Employment & Education Inc ($15k).
Does Charles Nelson Pease Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Charles Nelson Pease 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 Charles Nelson Pease Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baird Foundation Inc, The Roach Foundation Inc, Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc.
Where is Charles Nelson Pease Foundation based?
Charles Nelson Pease Foundation is based in TX.

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 43 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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