· Private foundation
David J Nelson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $2,000 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $1,840 |
| THE CHILDREN'S CENTER | $1,200 |
| PRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $1,100 |
| YWCA OF UTAH | $1,000 |
| SHRINER'S HOSPITAL OF UTAH | $1,000 |
| ALTA CLUB FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ST JUDES HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| THE ROAD HOME | $1,000 |
| ALZHIEMER ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| TRACY AVIARY | $800 |
| WORLD VISION | $512 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $500 |
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 (FY22–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 +32% since the first grant, against -74% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- UFUTAH FOOD BANK4× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +53%
- RMRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +9%
- TRTHE ROAD HOME3× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- HFHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -74%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.
Utah partners for health provides compassionate, comprehensive, quality care to empower underserved individuals, families, and communities in a patient-centered medical home.
Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
The Utah Public Health Association (UPHA) is a statewide membership organization dedicated to improving the health of Utah communities by supporting and representing the public health workforce. UPHA advances public health through…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Utah's hogle zoo creates champions for wildlife and is our community's gateway to animals, connecting our visitors with the natural world and engaging them in wildlife conservation action locally and worldwide.
Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…
We are utah's partner in philanthropy, pioneering innovation and collaboration to invest in our community today for a brighter tomorrow.
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Women's Christian Association of Utah and the most unlike its peers is Town Club Preservation Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 31 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 UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Utah ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEO Foundation ↗
- Who funds TOWN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization David J 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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