How much did M G NELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of M G NELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

immokaleepoverty

2019

buildtraffickingabraham lincoln

2020

danceabrahamscholarships

2021

involvement ministrymembersabraham lincolnscholarships

2022

skillsneedyliveswomen survivorsathletesmemberscare

2023

advancedomestic abusesurvivorsathleteslincoln

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k20 grants · $58k
$10k–50k6 grants · $103k
$50k–250k6 grants · $658k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$20M

Total assets

Largest grants

COMPASS FOR KIDS$220,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$130,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS$100,000
KIDZEUM OF HEALTH & SCIENCE$100,000
MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$57,500
ARTIS NAPLES$50,000
MINI O'BEIRNE CRISIS NURSERY$35,000
NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN$25,000
SPRINGFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT 186$13,418
HOLE IN THE WALL WILDLIFE FUND$10,000
NCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY$10,000
LINCOLN MEMORIAL GARDENS$10,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$5,000
WARRIOR HOMES OF COLLIER$5,000
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $208k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 16% of M G NELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 71% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

M G NELSON FAMILY FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 3.9% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.5M · 33 repeat orgs$704k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.5M

$565k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+40%

Still filing today

55%

32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

CF
COMPASS FOR KIDS
3× · 2022–2024 · $390k · revenue +352%
CF
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE LAND OF LINCOLN
5× · 2019–2023 · $317k · revenue +366%
NB
NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN
7× · 2018–2024 · $303k · revenue +79%

Funded once

NF
NCH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $108k
KS
KIDZEUM SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
one grant, 2017 · $100k
SY
SPRINGFIELD YMCA
one grant, 2019 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Illinois State University Foundation

To hold & administer gifts with the primary objective of serving the educational purposes of isu.

Education

University of Illinois Alumni

The mission of the university of illinois alumni association is to enhance and advance the relationship between the university of illinois and all of its alumni.

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Eastern Illinois University Foundation

To encourage and provide private support for Eastern Illinois University and its educational mission through scholarships and grants

Education

Foundry Educational Foundation

Foundry educational foundation strenghtens the metal casting industry by supporting unique partnerships among students, educators, and industry, helping today's students become tomorrow's leaders.

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Florida Gulf Coast University

The foundation's mission is to support the educational mission of florida gulf coast university.

Education

Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher learning in the liberal arts.

Education

Southern Illinois University

Philanthropic solicitation, cultivation, and recognition on behalf of siue.

Education

The University of Cincinnati Foundation

To inspire a community of uc and uc health supporters through the power of philanthropy.

Philanthropy

University of Florida Alumni

Education and research and shaping a better future for florida, the nation and the world," as determined by the university of florida board of trustees. the association strengthens the gator nation by involving and engaging its alumni,…

Education

Rollins College

Rollins College educates students for global citizenship and responsible leadership, empowering graduates to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers. We are committed to liberal arts ethos and guided by its values.

Education

College of Lake County Foundation

The College of Lake County Foundation seeks to be Lake County's first choice educational foundation. Our philanthropic partnerships support the College's mission to deliver high quality, accessible learning opportunities, advance student…

Education

The Florida College System Foundation

The mission of the florida college system foundation is to secure and manage public and private resources to provide optimal benefit to florida's 28 colleges, thereby supporting students who are seeking a high education that will…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3/44

the rest of the field

12%

2,109/17,593

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

06the grantee network

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/36

Grantees still filing

24/36

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,393,329Youth Development$405,000Philanthropy$317,000Arts & Culture$315,000Environment$302,750Education$269,500Human Services$209,000

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.

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.

Green Family Charitable FoundationIL20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Green Family Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln Inc · Levi Ray & Shoup Foundation · The Cellini Family Fund Trust Co William F Cellini Jr · Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 organisation M G NELSON FAMILY 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 376040337 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 31% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to M G Nelson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to M G Nelson Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

M G NELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to M G Nelson Family Foundation?

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M G NELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to M G Nelson Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph