· Private foundation
J N Nelson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $144k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOCO RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $32,000 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| LYNN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $16,500 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF ART | $10,000 |
| ORDER OF ST JOHN'S OF JERUSALEM | $8,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $7,000 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARTS AND LETTERS | $5,000 |
| FLINT ROTARY CLUB | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 48% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +57% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $222k · revenue +88%
- LULYNN UNIVERSITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $168k · revenue +46%
- CGCLL Global Research Foundation5× · 2017–2021 · $77k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- HFHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEMone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- CICATO INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +93%
- BHBOCA HELPING HANDS INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +13%
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.
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
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Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
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 23 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 THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LYNN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CLL Global Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Music ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BOCA HELPING HANDS INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization J N Nelson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J N Nelson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lynn University Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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