· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k56 grants · $129k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $141k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THISISPLACE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CONSERVATION CTR FOR ART & HISTORIC | $20,150 |
| HORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON | $19,500 |
| NY SOCIETY LIBRARY TRUSTEES | $17,000 |
| SPRINGS FOOD PANTRY | $15,500 |
| WYCK ASSOCIATION | $12,500 |
| HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| BROOKINGS INSTITUTION | $10,000 |
| MARET SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SUN VALLEY WRITERS CONFERENCE | $8,000 |
| FRAXA RESEARCH FDN | $7,500 |
| HEWITT SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| CADASTA FOUNATION | $6,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| AFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
86 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 18 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMARET SCHOOL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $198k · revenue +29%
- TBTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION8× · 2018–2025 · $136k · revenue +19%
- HGHORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC7× · 2018–2025 · $88k · revenue +191%
Funded once
- AWAMERICAN WATERSHED SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $25k
- HSHORIZONS SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGone grant, 2019 · $15k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $11k
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.
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.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
How this is measured
101 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. 101 of the 165 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MARET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WYCK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS ↗
- Who funds FRAXA Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN DITCHLEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Environmental Law Institute ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds SPRINGS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLES RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Central Institute ↗
- Who funds THISISPLACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CADASTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEWITT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW MARKETS LAB ↗
- Who funds AJIRI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hosts for Hospitals ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANITARIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE PUSHCART PRIZE FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS OREGON ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nelson Talbott Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nelson Talbott Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Deschutes River Conservancy: 100% of income from government
- University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
- Anacostia Watershed Society Inc: 15% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- American Antiquarian Society: 7% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- Financial Beginnings: 1% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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