Nebraska · Private foundation
Karl H and Wealtha H Nelson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $177k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Karl H and Wealtha H Nelson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $177k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $213k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $205k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $232k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $252k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $319k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $191k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $152k | 61% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska City Public Schools Foundation | $117,500 | 8 | 7% |
| St Mary's Hospital Foundation | $107,500 | 7 | 23% |
| Nebraska City Historical Society | $78,000 | 7 | 12% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $48,000 | 6 | 0% |
| National Arbor Day Foundation | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Nebraska City Baseball Association | $39,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Girl Scouts Spirit of Nebraska | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kregel Windmill Factory Museum | $30,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Nebraska City Museum Association | $30,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Peru State College Foundation | $15,650 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 21 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Karl H and Wealtha H 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: Kropp Charitable Foundation Inc · Paul John Anton & Doris Wirth Foundation Inc · The Steinhart Foundation Inc · Abel Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · D F Dillon Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
Compare Karl H and Wealtha H Nelson Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Karl H and Wealtha H Nelson Family Foundation
- How much does Karl H and Wealtha H Nelson Family Foundation give?
- Karl H and Wealtha H Nelson Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $176,541 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Karl H and Wealtha H Nelson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (23%), Education (16%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Karl H and Wealtha H Nelson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nebraska City Public Schools Foundation ($118k), St Mary's Hospital Foundation ($108k), Nebraska City Historical Society ($78k).
- Does Karl H and Wealtha H Nelson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Karl H and Wealtha H Nelson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Karl H and Wealtha H Nelson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kropp Charitable Foundation Inc, Paul John Anton & Doris Wirth Foundation Inc, The Steinhart Foundation Inc.
- Where is Karl H and Wealtha H Nelson Family Foundation based?
- Karl H and Wealtha H Nelson Family Foundation is based in NE.
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