How much did ROBERT NELSON FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of ROBERT NELSON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

unhomedcovid responsedisabledunion rescuelos angeles

2021

health welfarecoviduclaguiding lighthomelessunion rescue

2022

homeless reliefchildrens healthdelta veteransveterans resourceolympics socalridedisability

2023

wiserelief foodfood insecurityhomelessdisabledyouthlos angeles

2024

underserved youtheducationalbeachpoliceindigentfooddisabled

2025

handhealth communicationcommunication researchindigenteducationalmusicdisability

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k19 grants · $88k
$10k–50k15 grants · $320k
$50k–250k2 grants · $160k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$17M

Total assets

Largest grants

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES$80,000
GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY$80,000
HAPPY TRAILS FOR KIDS$35,000
LOS ANGELES MISSION$35,000
JOVENES INC$30,000
UNION RESCUE MISSION$30,000
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$30,000
THE MUSIC CENTER$25,000
HCRI INC (HEALTH COMMUNICATION RESEARCH)$20,000
CHILDRENS LAW CENTER OF CA$20,000
LA EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FOUNDATION$20,000
CITY OF GRANDVILLE$15,000
WISE READERS TO LEADERS$15,000
KENT ISD$15,000
HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $415k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.3M · 20 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +117% since the first grant, against +84% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+117%

+84%

Still filing today

65%

28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEducationCivil RightsPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

UR
UNION RESCUE MISSION
6× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +155%
HAPPY TRAILS FOR KIDS
5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +192%
MA
MINORITY AIDS PROJECT
4× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +27%

Funded once

CS
CA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $80k
PL
PENNY LANE
one grant, 2022 · $50k
PC
PLUMAS COUNTY CRISIS INTERVENTION & RESOURCE
one grant, 2022 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Rescue Mission Alliance

We serve the poor and homeless by providing food, shelter, and life changing recovery programs.

Human Services

Shelter Partnership Inc

Collaboratively solving homelessness in los angeles county.

Housing & Shelter

Farm2People

Farm2People's mission is to secure local harvests and fight hunger in Greater Los Angeles. We purchase surplus and onsold harvests from local, regional, underserved and independent farmers at a fair market rate while increasing…

Food & Nutrition

Los Angeles Habilitation House Inc

The mission of LAHH is to create and maintain job opportunities for people with disabilities in order that they develop, express, and apply their talents through their work and in their communities.

Employment

Trauma Informed La

Civil Rights

West Hollywood Community Housing Corp

The organization develops and operates high quality affordable housing and provides resident services for low-income families, seniors and people with special needs.

Housing & Shelter

Family Promise of Los Angeles

Family promise of the south bay assists families experiencing housing insecurity with short-term shelter, case management, and navigation with the goal of creating a sustainable solution for their family.

Human Services

Habitat for Humanity of La Plata

To build decent, affordable homes in partnership with families in need.

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Hollywood 4WRD

Hollywood 4WRD is a coalition driven to create systemic change to effectively address homelessness in Hollywood through advocacy, education, service coordination, and innovation

Community Improvement

Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture

Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

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Hunger Action Los Angeles Inc

Hunger action los angeles ends hunger and promotes healthy eating through the market match program at 22 farmers markets, publication of peoples guide to welfare, health and other services, and involvement with low income residents in…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Family Promise of Grand Rapids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/43

the rest of the field

13%

6,964/53,418

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/42

Grantees still filing

34/42

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,683,700Human Services$435,000Housing & Shelter$236,000Education$60,500Youth Development$50,000Public Safety & Disaster$44,995Food & Nutrition$30,000

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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Shelter Partnership IncCA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shelter Partnership Inc · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The Ahmanson Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation ROBERT NELSON FOUNDATION 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LEADERSHIP STOCKTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +67% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 680175108 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LEADERSHIP STOCKTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 22% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Robert Nelson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert Nelson Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ROBERT NELSON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Robert Nelson Foundation?

More from the funding graph

ROBERT NELSON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Robert Nelson Foundation?

More from the funding graph