New York · Private foundation
Ron and Joyce Nelson 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.
- $158k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 26
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Ron and Joyce Nelson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 30 | $158k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $113k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $85k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $112k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $103k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $70k | 94% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $10k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Vista Hill Foundation | $40,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Child Mind Institute Inc | $37,500 | 5 | 0% |
| San Diego Center for Children | $35,544 | 7 | 0% |
| Voices for Children | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Promises2kids Foundation | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Rady Children's Hospital Foundation San Diego | $25,150 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Feeding San Diego | $23,833 | 5 | 0% |
| La Jolla Music Society | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($240k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ron and Joyce Nelson 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 Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Parker Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Thomas C Ackerman Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Sempra Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Ron and Joyce Nelson Family Foundation with peer funders
About Ron and Joyce Nelson Family Foundation
- How much does Ron and Joyce Nelson Family Foundation give?
- Ron and Joyce Nelson Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $158,194 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Ron and Joyce Nelson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (22%), Human Services (19%), Arts & Culture (19%).
- Who are Ron and Joyce Nelson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Friends of Vista Hill Foundation ($40k), Anti-Defamation League ($40k), Child Mind Institute Inc ($38k).
- Does Ron and Joyce Nelson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ron and Joyce Nelson 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 Ron and Joyce Nelson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, The San Diego Foundation, Rancho Santa Fe Foundation.
- Where is Ron and Joyce Nelson Family Foundation based?
- Ron and Joyce Nelson Family Foundation is based in NY.
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