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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY BOSP | $35,000 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTION | $25,000 |
| PADRINO CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
| CHARLESTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ONE80 PLACE | $6,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ALIANZA CERO BASURA BCS | $5,000 |
| CHARLESTON JAZZ | $5,000 |
| GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| TETON RAPTOR CENTER | $3,000 |
| THE METRO MUSEUM OF ART | $2,500 |
| GOOD FRIENDS OF THE LOW COUNTRY | $2,500 |
| SURFRIDER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DRAYTON HALL PRESERVATION TRUST | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WWWESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +46%
- NMNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES4× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +83%
- OPOne-Eighty Place6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- TPThe Preservation Society of Charleston Incone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -5%
- KPKHOL PUBLIC MEDIA JACKSON HOLEone grant, 2022 · $10k
- TSTETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +30%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.
The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
The wyoming wilderness association works to protect wyoming's public wild lands to ensure a future of wild places for people and wildlife.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.
The organization pursues higher standards of news coverage of natural resources and the environment -- standards of accuracy, fairness, balance, depth and context.
Cowboy state daily's mission is to provide high-quality local and statewide reporting on the issues that impact wyoming, featuring stories that capture wyoming's wonderful "small town with long streets" vibe.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)
The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wyoming Untrapped Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Neue Galerie New York. 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.
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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds One-Eighty Place ↗
- Who funds WYOFILE ↗
- Who funds PADRINO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Charleston Jazz ↗
- Who funds STAR GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds GOOD FRIENDS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc ↗
- Who funds WYOMING WILDLIFE ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds The Art Association of Jackson Hole ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION CONGRESS ↗
- Who funds TETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OF AMERICA RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION LTD ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative ↗
- Who funds WYOMING UNTRAPPED INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE BOOK FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds TETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds One22 Inc ↗
- Who funds TETON RAPTOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGER BOWL FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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
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 organization 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.
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