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Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundation at a glance

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Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$810k
Granted FY2024still arriving
64
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$2.4MEducation$1.3MCrime & Legal$815kHuman Services$569kArts & Culture$290kRecreation & Sports$282kCommunity Improvement$145kPhilanthropy$132kOther$0
02FY2024 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $125k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $575k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARKESBURG POINT YOUTH CENTER$60,000
THE GARAGE COMMUNITY AND YOUTH CENT$50,000
THE GARAGE COMMUNITY AND YOUTH CENT$25,000
LIFT EVERY VOICE PHILLY$20,000
BIG PICTURE ALLIANCE$20,000
COLLECTIVE CLIMB$20,000
CODED BY KIDS$20,000
CHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION$20,000
WE LOVE PHILLY$20,000
GIRLS FIRST$20,000
PROJECT 440$20,000
FAMFREQUENCY PRODUCTIONS$20,000
ORDINARIE HEROES$20,000
YOUTH SENTENCING & REENTRY PROJECT$20,000
12$20,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $857k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN: $23k → 6%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN: $13k → 6%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN: $13k → 6%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN: $13k → 6%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN: $5k → 6%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN: $5k → 6%BRIDGE ACADEMY & COMMUNITY CENTER: $13k → 6%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT (MCAP): $60k → 7%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT (MCAP): $60k → 7%BRIDGE ACADEMY & COMMUNITY CENTER: $13k → 6%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT (: $15k → 7%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT (MCAP): $15k → 7%BRIDGE ACADEMY & COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 6%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT (MCAP): $13k → 7%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT (MCAP): $13k → 7%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT (MCAP): $10k → 7%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $15k → 7%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT (MCAP): $10k → 7%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $15k → 7%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $13k → 7%YOUNGMOMS: $50k → 6%YOUNGMOMS: $50k → 6%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $13k → 7%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT (: $5k → 7%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $20k → 22%YOUNGMOMS: $50k → 6%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $13k → 7%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT (MCAP): $5k → 7%YOUNGMOMS: $13k → 6%ONE HOUSE AT A TIME: $5k → 7%YOUNGMOMS: $13k → 6%YOUNGMOMS: $13k → 6%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $10k → 7%YOUNGMOMS: $13k → 6%YOUNGMOMS: $10k → 6%YOUNGMOMS: $10k → 6%YOUNGMOMS: $10k → 6%YOUNGMOMS: $5k → 6%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $10k → 22%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 22%MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT (MCAP): $70k → 22%INTER-FAITH HOUSING ALLIANCE: $10k → 22%CASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY: $18k → 22%CASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY: $15k → 22%CASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY: $15k → 22%CASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY: $13k → 22%CASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY: $13k → 22%CASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY: $10k → 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

NY
PA
CT
CA
NC
DC
HI
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.0M · 75 repeat orgs$438k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

75 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
25

Total granted

$6.0M
$276k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+27%

Still filing today

83%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CY
    CASA YOUTH ADVOCATES INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $345k · revenue +177%
  • MC
    MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +88%
  • RT
    ROCK TO THE FUTURE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $268k · revenue +265%

Funded once

  • TV
    THRIVE VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT CO UJIMA DEVELOPERS LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • HP
    HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +474%
  • CN
    CENTRO NUEAVO CREACION
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
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
Philadelphia Youth Network Inc

Philadelphia youth network (pyn) equips young people to build lifelong skills, pursue meaningful careers, and embrace change with confidence - so they can thrive in the workforce, experience economic mobility, and strengthen their…

Youth Development
2
Youth Empowerment Services

To re-engage out-of-school youth with alternative educational programs and job connections, life skills training,counseling, media and technology skills

Education
3
Friends of the Children - Philadelphia

Friends of the children philadelphia has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Education
4
Children First Pa

Summary

Human Services
5
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
6
Philadelphia Youth for Change Charter School Inc

To empower young adults (17-20 year-olds) to develop skills and connect to opportunities by fostering an environment of love, support, and respect for their whole person. students graduate high school and successfully transition to college…

Education
7
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
8
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
9
Horizons Greater Philadelphia Inc

Horizons Greater Philadelphia advances educational equity by building long-term partnerships with students, families, communities, and schools to create experiences outside of school that inspire the joy of learning.

—
10
The Philadelphia Education Fund

The mission of the philadelphia education fund (pef) is to create equitable access to opportunities for students by providing resources and expertise that build paths to college and career success. pef focuses on philadelphia public school…

Youth Development
11
Philadelphia Youth Sports Collaborative

The mission of philadelphia youth sports collaborative (pysc) is to dramatically enhance the capacity of youth-serving organizations in philadelphia to provide high quality, sports-based youth development programs to children in every…

Philanthropy
12
Lead Pa

Cultivating the next generation of progressive leaders across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project 440 Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

91 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. 91 of the 117 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/91
Grantees still filing
70/91
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS PHILADELPHIA: $309,500 · OtherAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS PHILADELPHIAHealthy NewsWorks: $208,700 · OtherHealthy NewsWorksCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $131,000 · OtherCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATIONTHRIVE VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT CO UJIMA DEVELOPERS LLC: $100,000 · OtherWAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $88,000 · OtherSQUASHSMARTS INC: $105,000 · OtherYOUTH SENTENCING & REENTRY PROJECT INC: $154,500 · OtherYOUTH SENTENCING & REENTRY PROJECT INCNORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT: $159,500 · OtherNORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT+49 more: $1,135,450 · Other+49 moreCOATESVILLE YOUTH INITIATIVE: $213,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOATESVILLE YOUTH …THE PARKESBURG POINT: $212,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PARKESBURG POI…AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS: $168,000 · Youth DevelopmentAFTER SCHOOL ACTIV…ASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC: $118,000 · Youth DevelopmentASIAN AMERICANS UN…STUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE: $97,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTUDENTS RUN PHILL…NEIGHBORHOOD BIKE WORKS: $97,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEIGHBORHOOD BIKE …THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE ATTIC YOUTH CE…NEED IN DEED: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentWE LOVE PHILLY: $40,000 · Youth Development+3 more: $37,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER: $207,500 · EducationTHE GARAGE COMMUN…GIRLS FIRST: $122,500 · EducationGIRLS FIRSTAchieve Now: $96,000 · EducationAchieve NowBREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $92,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH OF G…MIGHTY WRITERS: $90,000 · EducationMIGHTY WRITERSCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $82,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE …Episcopal Academy: $75,000 · EducationEpiscopal AcademyCHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC: $55,000 · EducationCHESTER COUNTY FU…HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $50,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE CENTER: $48,000 · EducationCODED BY: $42,500 · Education+6 more: $65,000 · Education+6 moreMONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT: $275,000 · Human ServicesMONTGOMERY CHI…YOUNGMOMS: $240,000 · Human ServicesYOUNGMOMSONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC: $94,100 · Human ServicesONE HOUSE AT A…CASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY: $92,500 · Human ServicesCASA OF PHILAD…FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO: $70,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS ASSOCI…BRIDGE ACADEMY AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $35,000 · Human Services+5 more: $52,500 · Human Services+5 moreROCK TO THE FUTURE INC: $267,500 · Arts & CultureTALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC: $90,000 · Arts & CulturePLAY ON PHILLY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFamfrequency Productions Inc: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT 440 INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $17,500 · Arts & CultureCASA YOUTH ADVOCATES INC: $345,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $12,500 · Civil RightsStarfinder Foundation: $87,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $75,000 · PhilanthropyTRELLIS FOR TOMORROW: $62,000 · PhilanthropyBRIGHTER HORIZON FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY NETWORK GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $15,000 · PhilanthropySEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $6,600 · Philanthropy
Other$2,391,650Youth Development$1,092,500Education$1,025,500Human Services$859,100Arts & Culture$505,000Civil Rights$357,500Philanthropy$296,100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCASA YOUTH ADVOCATES INC: $345,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetMONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT: $275,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetROCK TO THE FUTURE INC: $267,500 over 8y, 18% of budgetYOUNGMOMS: $240,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetCOATESVILLE YOUTH INITIATIVE: $213,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetTHE PARKESBURG POINT: $212,500 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetHealthy NewsWorks: $208,700 over 8y, 29% of budgetTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER: $207,500 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS: $168,000 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetNORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT: $159,500 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetYOUTH SENTENCING & REENTRY PROJECT INC: $154,500 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $131,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetGIRLS FIRST: $122,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC: $118,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetSQUASHSMARTS INC: $105,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetSTUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE: $97,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD BIKE WORKS: $97,000 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetAchieve Now: $96,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC: $94,100 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetCASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY: $92,500 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $92,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetTALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC: $90,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $90,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetWAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $88,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetStarfinder Foundation: $87,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $82,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPhiladelphia City Rowing Inc: $79,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetEpiscopal Academy: $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRO NUEVA CREACION NEW CREATION COMMUNITY CENTER: $74,500 over 6y, 10% of budgetTHE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER: $70,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO: $70,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetTRELLIS FOR TOMORROW: $62,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC: $60,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC: $55,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTHE MONKEY AND THE ELEPHANT: $53,400 over 2y, 11% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPLAY ON PHILLY: $50,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetPROVIDENCE CENTER: $48,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTHE BIG PICTURE ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCOLLECTIVE CLIMB: $45,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetCODED BY: $42,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFamfrequency Productions Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetNEED IN DEED: $40,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBEYOND THE BARS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWE LOVE PHILLY: $40,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetBRIDGE ACADEMY AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $35,000 over 3y, 2.7% 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 CASA YOUTH ADVOCATES INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY CHILD ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ROCK TO THE FUTURE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNGMOMS ↗
  • Who funds COATESVILLE YOUTH INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds THE PARKESBURG POINT ↗
  • Who funds Healthy NewsWorks ↗
  • Who funds THE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS ↗
  • Who funds NORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH SENTENCING & REENTRY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS FIRST ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds SQUASHSMARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds STUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD BIKE WORKS ↗
  • Who funds Achieve Now ↗
  • Who funds ONE HOUSE AT A TIME INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds TALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC ↗
  • Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
  • Who funds WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds Starfinder Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Philadelphia City Rowing Inc ↗
  • Who funds Episcopal Academy ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO NUEVA CREACION NEW CREATION COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO ↗
  • Who funds TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MONKEY AND THE ELEPHANT ↗

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.

The Philadelphia Foun…The William Penn Foun…The Patricia Kind Fam…Henrietta Tower Wurts…Adam and Maria Sarah …Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Claneil Foundation IncConnelly FoundationLindback Cr & Mf Foun…The Allen Hilles FundUnited Way of Greater…Independence Foundati…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA107.6× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girls · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Claneil Foundation Inc · Connelly Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Allen Hilles Fund · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Independence 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 Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundation 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 117 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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