· Private foundation
Donna and Dave 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PAUL THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| SAINT LOUIS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $22,500 |
| PAGE-ROBBINS ADULT DAY SERVICES INC | $16,000 |
| COLLIERVILLE PARTNERS IN EDUCATION | $15,000 |
| CHRISTIAN BROTHERS LA SALLE HIGH SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| AVE MARIA HOME | $5,000 |
| COLLIERVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| ST AGNES ACADEMY - ST DOMINIC SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MEMPHIS INC | $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 (FY20–24, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Donna and Dave Nelson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +7% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PRPAGE ROBBINS ADULT DAY SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $76k · revenue +46%
- CECOLLIERVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +189%
- YOYMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH3× · 2020–2022 · $5k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- LBLE BONHEUR CLUB INCone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue -14%
- RRRESOURCE REDISTRIBUTION MINISTRYone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue -75%
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.
Reach memphis helps high achieving students from shelby county public schools succeed in high school, college and beyond using a continuum of services including summer educational experiences, college readiness planning and counseling, and…
To prepare young ladies and gentlemen for college success within a highly-structured, nurturing, christian environment.
To partner with families in providing students a christ-centered and academically challenging education equipping them with a biblical worldview as they grow in understandings, attitudes, skills, and in favor with god and man.
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Crossroads Christian Academy partners with parents to provide a Christ-Centered, college preparatory education where students are allowed to further develop their God-given talents and virtues and become college-worthy character witnesses…
The organizations mission is to promote and maintain a business climate favorable to businesses in tennessee.
Tennessee educational cooperative's mission is to help all children reach their potential by partnering with parents, schools and communities.
To advance state policies and practices that ensure all tennessee children from birth through 3rd grade get the high quality early education they need to power our state's future.
To provide students in grades 6-12 with an excellent education, preparing them to pursue ambitious goals and succeed in college.
Elementary and high school education
The organization's mission is to develop, acquire, construct and maintain buildings and property for providing a quality assisted living/alzheimer care facility containing facilities for recreation, instruction, education and administer to…
To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 15 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.
- Who funds CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PAGE ROBBINS ADULT DAY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIERVILLE PARTNERS IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA HOME INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIERVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH ↗
- Who funds RISE MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds LE BONHEUR CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Junior League of Memphis ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE REDISTRIBUTION MINISTRY ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christoval Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Crews Family Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Donna and Dave Nelson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donna and Dave Nelson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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