Washington · Private foundation
Roy and Leona Nelson 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.
- $196k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 38
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Roy and Leona Nelson 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; $17k 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 | 25 | $196k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $163k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $162k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $207k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $183k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $173k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitworth University | $146,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Northwest Nazarene University Inc | $144,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Spokane Colleges Foundation | $105,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lewis-Clark State College | $99,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences | $94,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Heritage University | $81,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Eastern Washington University Foundation | $51,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Big Bend Community College Foundation | $45,000 | 3 | 2% |
| North Idaho College Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Vanessa Behan | $12,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($171k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Roy and Leona Nelson 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: Innovia Foundation · The Avista Foundation · Second Harvest Inland Northwest · Community Foundation of Ncw · Northwest Harvest Emm · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Seattle Foundation · Multicare Health System · School's Out Washington · Women Helping Women Fund
How this is measured
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About Roy and Leona Nelson Foundation
- How much does Roy and Leona Nelson Foundation give?
- Roy and Leona Nelson Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $196,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Roy and Leona Nelson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (65%), Health (11%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are Roy and Leona Nelson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Whitworth University ($146k), Northwest Nazarene University Inc ($144k), Spokane Colleges Foundation ($105k).
- Does Roy and Leona Nelson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Roy and Leona Nelson 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 Roy and Leona Nelson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Innovia Foundation, The Avista Foundation, Second Harvest Inland Northwest.
- Where is Roy and Leona Nelson Foundation based?
- Roy and Leona Nelson Foundation is based in WA.
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