· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $156k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences | $45,000 |
| Spokane Colleges Foundation | $30,000 |
| Northwest Nazarene University | $22,500 |
| Whitworth University | $22,500 |
| Eastern Washington University Foundation | $18,000 |
| Lewis-Clark State College | $18,000 |
| Tri-Cities Union Gospel Mission | $5,000 |
| Garden Terrace Senior Living | $5,000 |
| Alatheia Therapeutic Riding Center | $5,000 |
| National Alliance for Mental Illness - Coeur d'Alene | $3,500 |
| United Way of North Idaho | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | $2,000 |
| Morning Star Boys Ranch | $2,000 |
| Northwest X Talks | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
34 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 11 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- WUWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $146k · revenue +15%
- NNNORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $144k · revenue +23%
- SCSPOKANE COLLEGES FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +214%
Funded once
- TLTri-county Libraryone grant, 2024 · $5k
- NANational Alliance for Mental Illness - Coeur d'Alenone grant, 2024 · $4k
- CCCatholic Charities Wenatcheeone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
Chelan Valley Hope is a gross-roots local social services agency 'hub' for compassionate connections and resources since 2009. We empower people to improve their own lives by giving them a hand up; not just a hand-out. We do this by…
The Community Foundation of Snohomish County (the Foundation) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Washington. The Foundation serves as a community foundation, supporting a broad spectrum of…
Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.
Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
We help meet the nutritional and social needs of low-income women and children in Spokane County by providing healthy meals at no charge at the restaurant and through partner agencies.
To reflect the heart of God by feeding, sheltering, clothing, healing and empowering those in need. Programs include housing, a cafe and job training system, shelter resources, and more. Our core values are: compassion, respect, joy and…
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
Partners inland northwest is the sole source of comprehensive community and social services in spokane valley, serving low income and disadvantaged residents between the city of spokane and the idaho border.
Tenino Community Service Center/Tenino Food Bank Plus is a deep-rooted community-based service center dedicated to feeding those within the Tenino school district (Tenino and Bucoda) that may be disadvantaged. In addition, it is our…
Our mission is to nourish with good food, empower with knowledge, and serve with compassion.
Provide food for individuals in need
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Spokane and the most unlike its peers is Odyssey Youth Center. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 12% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 85 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 WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE COLLEGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NCW ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Eastern Washington University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIG BEND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH IDAHO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VANESSA BEHAN ↗
- Who funds Seattle Area Youth for Christ ↗
- Who funds GARDEN TERRACE SENIOR LIVING ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Morning Star Boys Ranch ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Spokane County ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds KOOTENAI HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WENATCHEE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds YAKIMA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Spokane Humane Society ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Winthrop Pub Library ↗
- Who funds Seven Acres Foundation ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Roy and Leona 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.
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.
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