Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Nelson Talbott 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.
- $270k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 53 to 67
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- 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 Talbott Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 63 | $265k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $221k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 62 | $199k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $249k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 63 | $233k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $192k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 67 | $217k | 51% |
| FY2018 | 65 | $197k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maret School Inc | $198,300 | 8 | 0% |
| The Brookings Institution | $136,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Horizons Greater Washington Inc | $88,150 | 7 | 2% |
| Sun Valley Writers' Conference Inc | $74,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Wyck Association | $72,250 | 7 | 4% |
| Anacostia Watershed Society Inc | $67,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Trustees of the New York Society Library | $65,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Film Collaborative Inc | $60,084 | 8 | 0% |
| Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts | $59,850 | 7 | 0% |
| FRAXA Research Foundation Inc | $54,200 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 107 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($143k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nelson Talbott 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: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Leslie Miller and Richard Worley Foundation · Bainum Family Foundation · Pennsylvania Humanities Council · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Snider Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Nelson Talbott Foundation
- How much does Nelson Talbott Foundation give?
- Nelson Talbott Foundation reported 65 grants totaling $270,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 67 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Nelson Talbott Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Arts & Culture (26%), Environment (10%).
- Who are Nelson Talbott Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Maret School Inc ($198k), The Brookings Institution ($136k), Horizons Greater Washington Inc ($88k).
- Does Nelson Talbott Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nelson Talbott 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 Talbott Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
- Where is Nelson Talbott Foundation based?
- Nelson Talbott Foundation is based in DC.
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