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Linden David Nelson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
63%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$8,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$28k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 63% of the organizations Linden David Nelson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 90% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$18k60%
FY20238$93k63%
FY20225$20k60%
FY20215$21k100%
FY20207$31k57%
FY20196$24k50%
FY201814$63k86%
FY201711$67kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$78kReligion$44kEducation$43kHealth$31kArts & Culture$30kCommunity Improvement$25kCivil Rights$23kRecreation & Sports$17kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
IL
MI
NY
OH
CA
CO
AR
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Friends of Magen David Adom$75,00010%
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah$29,0004n/a
Trinity Health Corporation$20,00020%
College for Creative Studies$20,00020%
Artist Advocacy Foundation Inc$18,000117%
Eastern Market Corporation$10,80010%
Detroit Children's Fund$10,00010%
Rocket Giving Fund$10,00010%
Shul of Bal Harbour Inc$4,5741n/a
Thea Foundation$4,50020%
Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of Linden David Nelson Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Friends of Magen David Adom$75,00010%
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah$29,0004n/a
Trinity Health Corporation$20,00020%
College for Creative Studies$20,00020%
Artist Advocacy Foundation Inc$18,000117%
Eastern Market Corporation$10,80010%
Detroit Children's Fund$10,00010%
Rocket Giving Fund$10,00010%
Shul of Bal Harbour Inc$4,5741n/a
Thea Foundation$4,50020%
Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center Beth Jacob Inc$3,6001n/a
American Cancer Society Inc$2,00010%
Hillel Day School of Metro Detroit$1,80010%
The Hadassah Foundation Inc$1,80010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$1,20010%
Borculo Christian School$1,00010%
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit$90010%
Bonei Olam Inc$72020%
Pelotonia$54010%
Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network$36010%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$18010%

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($121k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Linden David Nelson Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity Health Corporation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCollege for Creative Studies: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArtist Advocacy Foundation Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetEastern Market Corporation: $10,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDetroit Children's Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRocket Giving Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThea Foundation: $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillel Day School of Metro Detroit: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hadassah Foundation Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBorculo Christian School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Contemporary Art Detroit: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPelotonia: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy FoundationVA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · William Davidson Foundation · Jk Farber Family Foundation · Grosfeld Foundation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · Gilbert Family Foundation · The Gilbert Family Foundation · Hudson-Webber Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · DTE Energy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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.

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About Linden David Nelson Foundation

How much does Linden David Nelson Foundation give?
Linden David Nelson Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $17,604 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Linden David Nelson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (23%), Religion (13%), Education (13%).
Who are Linden David Nelson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Friends of Magen David Adom ($75k), Yeshivath Beth Yehudah ($29k), Trinity Health Corporation ($20k).
Does Linden David Nelson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Linden David Nelson Foundation 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 Linden David Nelson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation, William Davidson Foundation, Jk Farber Family Foundation.
Where is Linden David Nelson Foundation based?
Linden David Nelson Foundation is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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