· Private foundation
David F and Jody M Nielson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Heritage School | $35,000 |
| American Indian Services | $20,000 |
| Orrock Mendenall Sport Med Fdt | $10,000 |
| Costco Charity | $5,000 |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of LDS | $4,800 |
| Stand 4 Kind | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AHAmerican Heritage Schools Inc5× · 2018–2024 · $192k · revenue -4%
- AIAmerican Indian Services7× · 2017–2024 · $176k · revenue +6%
- PCPrimary Childrens Hospital4× · 2019–2022 · $28k
Funded once
- 9S971 Secret Santa Fundone grant, 2017 · $15k
- RCRelina Clinger Farm Sup Trustone grant, 2020 · $12k
- SLService Legacy Foundationone grant, 2019 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Congenital Hyperinsulinism International (CHI) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to improving the lives of babies, children, and adults affected by congenital hyperinsulinism (HI). HI is a life-threatening genetic disorder…
Preventive Medicine Research Institute is a pioneer in scientific research investigating the effects of diet and lifestyle choices on health and disease. Our work is grounded in compassion and dedication to service. PMRI achieves its…
Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
ARDI stewards donated endowments to sustain future American air and space power, enhancing faculty quality and cadet education at the United States Air Force Academy.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
To relieve and alleviate human suffering, misery, poverty, sickness, and distress throughout the world by providing emergency medical relief, funding, and support.
Hudson Institute is a research organization promoting American leadership for a secure, free, and prosperous future.
The american heart association's mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives.
The American SIDS Institute, is dedicated to the prevention of sudden infant death and the promotion of infant health through research, family support, and professional education.
Perform basic research and preclinical efficacy assessments of new molecular entities being developed for the prevention and treatment of cancer and infectious disease. Discover new pathways and targets for the design and development of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is STAND4KIND and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds American Heritage Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds American Indian Services ↗
- Who funds Orrock Mendenhall Sports Medicine Founda ↗
- Who funds DANNY DID FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STAND4KIND ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds Humanitarian Experience Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Beesley Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization David F and Jody M Nielson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.