California · Private foundation
Nelson Family Foundation
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.
- $105k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,405
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 41
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Nelson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $105k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $229k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $450k | 59% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $256k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $145k | 65% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $273k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $79k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crosswinds Church | $392,500 | 7 | n/a |
| New Story Inc | $221,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Freedom Story | $131,523 | 7 | 6% |
| PathLight International Inc | $66,103 | 6 | 2% |
| Flourish Collective | $65,405 | 2 | 17% |
| Biola University Inc | $65,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Shepherds Gate | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cadence International | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Operation Mobilization | $19,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Choose 180 | $17,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($352k), 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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Nelson Family Foundation
- How much does Nelson Family Foundation give?
- Nelson Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $105,105 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Nelson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (30%), International (19%), Housing & Shelter (19%).
- Who are Nelson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Crosswinds Church ($393k), New Story Inc ($221k), The Freedom Story ($132k).
- Does Nelson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% 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 Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Christian Community Foundation Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
- Where is Nelson Family Foundation based?
- Nelson Family Foundation is based in CA.
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