· Private foundation
Nelson Family Charitable Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Central Baptist Church | $36,262 |
| Voice of the Martyrs | $2,000 |
| UCA Foundation | $1,000 |
| Stride for a Cure | $1,000 |
| University of Texas | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Nelson Family Charitable Tr’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +133% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AWANDY WOODS MINISTRIES3× · 2020–2022 · $16k · revenue +263%
- TJTHE JOSHUA FUND3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +133%
- ATACCORDING TO PROPHECY MINISTRIES3× · 2020–2022 · $10k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- OTOLIVE TREE MINISTRIESone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +5%
- ACARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -25%
- WVWorld View Weekend Foundationone grant, 2021 · $8k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Teaching and Spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
To preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the Nations
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Making disciples of jesus christ through the testifying, sharing and teaching of the gospel of jesus christ
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Promote Gods word through understanding the Bible
Spread the gospel of jesus christ through sound teachings of the bible.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds THE JOSHUA FUND ↗
- Who funds ACCORDING TO PROPHECY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds OLIVE TREE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds BEHOLD ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Eleos Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nelson Family Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nelson Family Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.
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