· Private foundation
Jd Nelson and Debra Nelson Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $292k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $455k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REDEEMER BIBLE CHURCH | $100,000 |
| PLYMOUTH BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH | $80,000 |
| WORLD HARVEST OUTREACH | $65,000 |
| OPEN BIBLE CHURCH | $59,500 |
| TRINITY ACADEMY INC | $50,000 |
| INFAITH | $50,000 |
| CLEAR LAKE CLASSICAL | $50,000 |
| GOSERV GLOBAL INC | $30,000 |
| CLEAR LAKE COMMUNITY SHOOLS | $27,000 |
| ST JOHNS LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| RIVER CITY COMMUNITY CHURCH | $25,000 |
| SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| YOUTH HORIZONS | $25,000 |
| MASON CITY FAMILY YMCA | $25,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 11 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CLCLEAR LAKE CLASSICAL INCORPORATED3× · 2022–2024 · $115k · revenue +76%
- SCSOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL INC2× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +15%
- YHYOUTH HORIZONS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- IRIOWA REGULAR BAPTIST CAMP INCone grant, 2023 · $20k
- CLCLEAR LAKE COMMUNITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2023 · $16k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $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.
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.
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How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 73 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 CLEAR LAKE CLASSICAL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds INFAITH ↗
- Who funds TRINITY ACADEMY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds GOSERV GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HAWKEYE HARVEST FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF YOUTH MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Onelink International Inc ↗
- Who funds BETHEL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IA INC ↗
- Who funds SERVING WORKERS FOR THE HARVEST 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.
Open a dossier: First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · Servant Foundation · Dorothy Ann Weitzel and Thomas F W · Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The David & Phyllis Murphy Charitable Foundation · United Way of North Central Iowa · Tomson Family Foundation Trust · Farrer Endowment Foundation · John K and Luise V Hanson Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jd Nelson and Debra Nelson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jd Nelson and Debra Nelson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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