Rhode Island · Private foundation
Jonathan M Nelson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $8.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2024
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,550,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 39
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $180M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Jonathan M Nelson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $6.5M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $2.4M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $79k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $3.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation | $3,850,000 | 3 | 5% |
| The Rockefeller University | $3,652,949 | 3 | 0% |
| New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc | $2,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | $193,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Northfield Mount Hermon School | $120,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Harc Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Save the Bay Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Milken Institute | $62,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Gordon School | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jonathan M Nelson Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Gilbane Family Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Frederick C Tanner Memorial Fund · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The New York Community Trust · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353
How this is measured
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About Jonathan M Nelson Family Foundation
- How much does Jonathan M Nelson Family Foundation give?
- Jonathan M Nelson Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $8,814,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Jonathan M Nelson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (61%), Science & Tech (15%), Philanthropy (10%).
- Who are Jonathan M Nelson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation ($3.9M), The Rockefeller University ($3.7M), New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc ($2.0M).
- Does Jonathan M Nelson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jonathan M Nelson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jonathan M Nelson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gilbane Family Foundation, The Champlin Foundation, The Rhode Island Community Foundation.
- Where is Jonathan M Nelson Family Foundation based?
- Jonathan M Nelson Family Foundation is based in RI.
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