· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILD MIND INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF VISTA HILL | $10,000 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| KPBS | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLINESS | $10,000 |
| BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $7,500 |
| THE OLD GLOBE | $6,000 |
| PROMISES 2 KIDS | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
| THE FRIENDS OF ISREAL GOSPEL MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE IDF | $5,000 |
| RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those 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.
29 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE4× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +34%
- FOFRIENDS OF VISTA HILL FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +49%
- CMCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +143%
Funded once
- PSPASADENA SYMPHONY AND PROPSone grant, 2021 · $17k
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -13%- MDMAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Center for Children and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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.
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 43 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
37 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. 37 of the 61 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 ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF VISTA HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
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.
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
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 organization Ron and Joyce Nelson Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 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.