· Private foundation
The Aksel Nielsen 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP AVODA | $60,000 |
| NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED | $40,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $6,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH SHALOM | $5,168 |
| CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST | $5,000 |
| ACLU | $5,000 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE RESERVATION | $5,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $5,000 |
| JCRC JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NSNATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC9× · 2017–2025 · $360k · revenue +59%
- CACAMP AVODA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $335k · revenue +188%
- DDDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE3× · 2017–2019 · $65k · revenue +254%
Funded once
Legal Aid at Workgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +121%- HFHISPANIC FEDERATON UNIDOS DISASTER RELIEF FUND 13one grant, 2017 · $5k
- TBTHE BOSTON FOUNDATION-COVID-19 RESPONSE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The westport library was established for the purpose of maintaining a public library in the town of westport, connecticut. the library is committed to empowering the individual and strengthening the community through dynamic interaction…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 66 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP AVODA INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HEALTHCARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds SHALOM AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CENTRAL PARK EAST HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid at Work ↗
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: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Gertler Clark Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Aksel Nielsen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Aksel Nielsen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Veterans Inc: 58% of income from government
- Family Health Center of Worcesterinc: 39% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Jewish Healthcare Center Inc: 15% of income from government
- New England Innocence Project: 12% of income from government
- Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc: 11% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: 5% of income from government
- Needham Community Council Inc: 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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