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Nelson Family Life Foundation Inc

The mission of the nelson family life foundation is focused on improving the lives of individuals in the communities the foundation serves through health and education initiatives.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Human Services$1.4MInternational$637kPhilanthropy$460kHealth$40kEducation$28kPublic Benefit$20kRecreation & Sports$10k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $1,327,246, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,389,699 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $62,453 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
$1,321,246
Median grant
2
States reached
$661k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARITY GLOBAL INC$1,321,246
NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%CAMP KESEM: $10k → 14%COWBOYS 4 HEROES: $7k → 16%HOME STARS INC: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 3 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$2.0M
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+36%

Still filing today

67%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CHARITY GLOBAL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +74%
  • VO
    VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF WISCONSIN
    2× · 2021–2022 · $20k
  • NC
    NORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue -7%

Funded once

  • MH
    My Home Stars Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · 97% of their budget
  • RR
    ROUND ROCK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +47%
  • AL
    AMERICAN LEGIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +43%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Texas a&M Foundation

The texas a&m foundation builds a brighter future for texas a&m university, one relationship at a time, by uniting generosity and vision to raise support and manage endowed gifts.

Education
2
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
3
Cornerstone Credit Union Foundation

Empowering credit unions to impact their communities. the foundation is dedicated to helping credit unions make a difference in the lives of the members and communities they serve.

Education
4
American Swiss Foundation

The foundation promotes friendship and mutual good will between the united states of america and the swiss confederation through exchange of knowledge and dissemination of information about these two countries. (see schedule o).including…

International
5
North Dakota State University Foundation

Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.

Education
6
Texas a&M University-Central Tx Foundati

Operated exclusively for educational purposes specifically including to further educational activities at texas a& m university-central texas within the meaning of 501(c)(3).

Education
7
Northern State University Foundation

The Northern State University Foundation is dedicated to securing the future of Northern State University. Its purpose is to solicit and administer funds and to pursue other activities to advance this goal.

—
8
CoreGiving Co

Engage in the charitable purpose of combating childhood hunger.

Philanthropy
9
Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc

Food distribution to the hungry throughout an eight county service territory in Southeast Texas.

Human Services
10
Alamance Community College Foundation

The Alamance Community College Foundation exists to aid students with a demonstrated financial need in reaching their educational goals, while supporting the mission of ACC.

—
11
North Carolina State University Foundation Inc

Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.

Education
12
Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascension Seton Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $1,958,246 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC+3 more: $42,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $460,000 · PhilanthropyCENTRAL TEXAS COMMUN…VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF WISCONSIN: $20,000 · OtherROUND ROCK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,080 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION: $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY 187: $10,000 · OtherASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherNORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationEAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationGRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$2,000,246Philanthropy$460,000Other$60,080Education$18,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $1,958,246 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $460,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetMy Home Stars Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 97% of budgetNORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROUND ROCK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,080 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASCENSION SETON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetC4H INC: $7,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetEAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Nelson Family Life Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nelson Family Life Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Nelson Family Life Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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