Connecticut · Private foundation
Nelsons 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.
- $116k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Nelsons Family 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; $15k 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 | 35 | $116k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $112k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $143k | 34% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $105k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $85k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $97k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $77k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 40 | $104k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc | $60,400 | 7 | 0% |
| Ethical Culture Fieldston School | $40,300 | 9 | 0% |
| New World Symphony Inc | $31,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust | $25,900 | 8 | 0% |
| Williams College | $18,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Vassar College | $18,250 | 9 | 0% |
| America Needs You | $16,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Moosilauke Visions Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Town School Inc | $13,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc | $13,080 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($468k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nelsons 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Fjc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Nelsons Family Foundation
- How much does Nelsons Family Foundation give?
- Nelsons Family Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $115,983 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Nelsons Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Education (24%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Nelsons Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc ($60k), Ethical Culture Fieldston School ($40k), New World Symphony Inc ($31k).
- Does Nelsons Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nelsons 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 Nelsons Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The New York Community Trust, Fjc.
- Where is Nelsons Family Foundation based?
- Nelsons Family Foundation is based in CT.
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