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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.

$39k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,400
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,900
Organizations funded a year
16 to 21
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$610k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Noel C Nelson & Children Foundatio funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalAnimalsHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving20$39k0%
FY202420$36k0%
FY202320$40k0%
FY202220$41k0%
FY202121$31k5%
FY202020$26k5%
FY201920$35k20%
FY201816$17k31%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$103kHealth$90kHuman Services$42kEducation$25kReligion$15kAnimals$6k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MA
OR
SD
IA
OH
CT
CA
VA
MD
AR
TN
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Medical Teams International$32,90090%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$31,40080%
Smile Train Inc$23,20090%
Heifer International Foundation$19,80090%
Operation Smile Inc$18,80070%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$16,35090%
Mercy Corps$15,20090%
Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc$13,70080%
St Josephs Indian School$13,0508n/a
St Labre Indian School$11,5509n/a
Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of Noel C Nelson & Children Foundatio by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Medical Teams International$32,90090%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$31,40080%
Smile Train Inc$23,20090%
Heifer International Foundation$19,80090%
Operation Smile Inc$18,80070%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$16,35090%
Mercy Corps$15,20090%
Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc$13,70080%
St Josephs Indian School$13,0508n/a
St Labre Indian School$11,5509n/a
Save The Children Federation Inc$10,40090%
Oxfam-America Inc$8,50070%
Shepherd's House Ministries$7,66560%
Portland Rescue Mission$6,9467n/a
Oregon Humane Society$4,35070%
The Showers Foundation Health Center$4,0003n/a
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$1,85050%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Noel C Nelson & Children Foundatio supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMedical Teams International: $32,900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $31,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $23,200 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHeifer International Foundation: $19,800 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetOperation Smile Inc: $18,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $16,350 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $15,200 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGuide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $13,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetShepherd's House Ministries: $7,665 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Humane Society: $4,350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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About Noel C Nelson & Children Foundatio

How much does Noel C Nelson & Children Foundatio give?
Noel C Nelson & Children Foundatio reported 20 grants totaling $39,213 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Noel C Nelson & Children Foundatio fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (37%), Health (32%), Human Services (15%).
Who are Noel C Nelson & Children Foundatio's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Medical Teams International ($33k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($31k), Smile Train Inc ($23k).
Does Noel C Nelson & Children Foundatio fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Noel C Nelson & Children Foundatio 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.
Where is Noel C Nelson & Children Foundatio based?
Noel C Nelson & Children Foundatio is based in OR.

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 22 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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