Texas · Private foundation
Nelson Family 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.
- $133k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2024
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,400
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $23,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Nelson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 31 | $133k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $180k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $155k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $80k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $101k | 91% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $5k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casa Juan Diego | $100,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Star of Hope Mission | $51,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities Inc | $42,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Michaels Catholic Church | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare | $17,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Mobile Loaves & Fishes Inc | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Yellowstone Academy Inc Dba Yellowstone Schools | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Casa de Esperanza | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Open Dance Project Inc | $14,400 | 6 | 1% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $11,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($283k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Mechia Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About Nelson Family Foundation
- How much does Nelson Family Foundation give?
- Nelson Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $132,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Nelson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Housing & Shelter (23%), Education (18%).
- Who are Nelson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Casa Juan Diego ($100k), Star of Hope Mission ($51k), Catholic Charities Inc ($42k).
- Does Nelson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nelson Family 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 Nelson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, Strake Foundation.
- Where is Nelson Family Foundation based?
- Nelson Family Foundation is based in TX.
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