Wyoming · 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.
- $141k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Nelson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 14 | $111k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $93k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $120k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $95k | 82% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $60k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $96k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $14k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $29k | 80% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Watersheds Projects Inc | $65,000 | 4 | 1% |
| National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| One-Eighty Place | $34,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Wyofile | $28,750 | 3 | 2% |
| Padrino Children's Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Charleston Jazz | $22,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Star Gospel Mission | $17,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Good Friends of the Lowcountry | $15,000 | 4 | 8% |
| The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wyoming Wildlife Advocates | $15,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($272k), 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: Elbridge & Evelyn Stuart Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · The Brooks Foundation · Panoram Foundation Inc · Wyoming Community Foundation · Speyer Family Foundation · Sts Foundation · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Marin Community Foundation · The Portland Trust II · Philip & Sandra Vineyard Fdn
How this is measured
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About Nelson Family Foundation
- How much does Nelson Family Foundation give?
- Nelson Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $140,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Nelson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Arts & Culture (17%), Environment (11%).
- Who are Nelson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Western Watersheds Projects Inc ($65k), National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States ($35k), One-Eighty Place ($35k).
- Does Nelson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% 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 Elbridge & Evelyn Stuart Foundation, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, The Brooks Foundation.
- Where is Nelson Family Foundation based?
- Nelson Family Foundation is based in WY.
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