· Private foundation
Noel C Nelson & Children Foundatio
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $5,900 |
| MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL | $5,100 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $3,200 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $3,000 |
| HEIFER FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,400 |
| ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL | $2,100 |
| GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $1,900 |
| MERCY CORPS | $1,900 |
| SHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES | $1,400 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $1,400 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $1,300 |
| PORTLAND RESCUE MISSION | $1,113 |
| OXFAM AMERICA | $1,100 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of your 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.
22 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +33%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $31k · revenue +125%
SMILE TRAIN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +19%
Funded once
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.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Our mission is to strengthen animal health and welfare to build more resilient communities. we do this by enhancing veterinary care, bolstering community disaster response and recovery, championing sustainable livelihoods, and improving…
Assist international partners with changemakers around the world to provide solutions that save lives and build resilient communities. we accomplish our mission with actionable projects that make a lasting and sustainable impact on the…
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Guided by her remarkable legacy of its co-founder, helen keller, helen keller intl partners with communities that are striving to overcome longstanding cycles of poverty. by delivering the essential building blocks of good health, sound…
Protection of animal rights
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medical Teams International and the most unlike its peers is The Showers Foundation Health Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 22 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 MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds HEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE SHOWERS FOUNDATION HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Noel C Nelson & Children Foundatio 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.