Does Helen J Urban & Thomas Nelson Urban Charitable Foundation II 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 Helen J Urban & Thomas Nelson Urban Charitable Foundation II?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.

Helen J Urban & Thomas Nelson Urban Charitable Foundation II

Helen J Urban & Thomas Nelson Urban Charitable Foundation II at a glance

· Private foundation

Helen J Urban & Thomas Nelson Urban Charitable Foundation II

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$82k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$14k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

International$275kEducation$112kArts & Culture$44kHealth$37kEnvironment$30kPhilanthropy$28kHuman Services$23kReligion$15kOther$0

02FY2026 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

Under $10k25 grants · $48k
$10k–50k3 grants · $34k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MAASAI GIRLS RESCUE CENTER	$14,320
OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL	$10,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND	$10,000
BLAIR ACADEMY	$5,000
AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES	$5,000
PHOENIX RESCUE MISSION	$3,000
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK	$3,000
HANDS TOGETHER	$2,500
ST BARNABAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH	$2,500
FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA	$2,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$2,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS	$2,000
THE SALVATION ARMY	$2,000
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL	$2,000
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–26, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Helen J Urban & Thomas Nelson Urban Charitable Foundation II’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Helen J Urban & Thomas Nelson Urban Charitable Foundation IIlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 8.8% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$614k · 32 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2026, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$614k

$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+21%

Still filing today

69%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationHealthArts & CultureOther

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

MG
MAASAI GIRLS RESCUE CENTER INC
7× · 2020–2026 · $143k · revenue +548%
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND
9× · 2018–2026 · $65k · revenue +161%
BA
BLAIR ACADEMY
9× · 2018–2026 · $60k · revenue +42%

Funded once

NJ
NATHAN JONES MEMORIAL TRUST FUND
one grant, 2019 · $5k
OS
OPERATION SMILE INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +37%
K
KBAQKJZZ
one grant, 2018 · $3k

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.

National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

African Parks Foundation of America

To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…

Recreation & Sports

International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals

American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment

Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wilderness Society; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Pinnacle Peak Park. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 60 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/42

Grantees still filing

28/42

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$309,987Education$127,000Other$126,820Arts & Culture$40,000Philanthropy$28,250Human Services$28,100Environment$21,300

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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Helen J Urban & Thomas Nelson Urban Charitable Foundation II funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen J Urban & Thomas Nelson Urban Charitable Foundation II. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

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.

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