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Rona and Randolph M Nelson Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Rona and Randolph M Nelson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$520k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$101k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$487kHuman Services$471kHealth$88kYouth Development$34kArts & Culture$24kCivil Rights$22kPhilanthropy$20kRecreation & Sports$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $205,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $520,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $314,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $176k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$743k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ExpandEd School$101,000
New Yorkers for Children$75,000
Footsteps Inc$10,000
The Jericho Project$5,000
Entertainment Community Fund$2,500
Telluride Nordic Association$2,000
Atlantic Theater Company$2,000
Harvard Business School$1,000
Harvard Business School$1,000
Women's Health Research at Yale$1,000
Open Space Institute (Minnewasha)$1,000
University of the People$1,000
Global Kids Inc$1,000
Luena Foundation$1,000
Telluride Nordic Association$1,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 17 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
25

Total granted

$1.1M
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+31%

Still filing today

71%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FI
    FOOTSTEPS INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +119%
  • GK
    GLOBAL KIDS INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $44k · revenue +76%
  • LI
    LITERACY INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • JI
    Jefferson Italy Center
    one grant, 2022 · $18k
  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -8%
  • BC
    BLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +13%
How this is measured

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

03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter
2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
3
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
4
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
New York Road Runners Inc

As a new york city based nonprofit, we're dedicated to transforming the health and well-being of our communities through inclusive and accessible running experiences, empowering all to achieve their potential.

—
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
9
New York Restoration Project

New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…

Environment
10
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Yorkers for Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Murray Bowen Archives Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
18/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ExpandEd School: $502,000 · OtherExpandEd School+31 more: $119,200 · Other+31 moreNEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN INC: $390,000 · Crime & LegalNEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN INCPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGLOBAL KIDS INC: $44,250 · Youth DevelopmentFOOTSTEPS INC: $55,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesABORTION CARE NETWORK: $20,000 · HealthBLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · HealthLITERACY INC: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE: $2,000 · EducationMurray Bowen Archives Project: $1,000 · EducationNew York University: $1,000 · EducationBURR & BURTON SEMINARY: $1,000 · EducationBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$621,200Crime & Legal$390,000Youth Development$94,250Human Services$56,000Health$40,000Education$30,000Philanthropy$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN INC: $390,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGLOBAL KIDS INC: $44,250 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLITERACY INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetABORTION CARE NETWORK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJERICHO PROJECT: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTelluride Nordic AssociationInc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 52ND STREET PROJECT INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLuena Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetProject Kesher: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMurray Bowen Archives Project: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCITY LAX INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew York University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNDERSTOOD FOR ALL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBURR & BURTON SEMINARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTelluride Mountain Club: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Jewish Communal FundCharities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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Find your warmest path to Rona and Randolph M Nelson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 46 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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