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The Alex W Nielsen Foundation Nfp

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$695
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$200
Largest grant, FY2023
$340
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Alex W Nielsen Foundation Nfp funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20232$4950%
FY20227$1k43%
FY20217$14k43%
FY20204$12k0%
FY20196$28kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Philanthropy$2kArts & Culture$1kEnvironment$940Health$628Education$400Public Safety & Disaster$300Human Services$200Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($52k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Alex W Nielsen Foundation Nfp supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Morton Arboretum: $940 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNaperville Heritage Society: $445 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $428 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Alumni Association of the City College of New York Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSurfers Healing Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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About The Alex W Nielsen Foundation Nfp

How much does The Alex W Nielsen Foundation Nfp give?
The Alex W Nielsen Foundation Nfp reported 3 grants totaling $695 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Alex W Nielsen Foundation Nfp fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (3%), Arts & Culture (2%), Environment (2%).
Who are The Alex W Nielsen Foundation Nfp's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: The Morton Arboretum ($940), Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ($600), Naperville Heritage Society ($445).
Does The Alex W Nielsen Foundation Nfp fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Alex W Nielsen Foundation Nfp accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Alex W Nielsen Foundation Nfp?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Alex W Nielsen Foundation Nfp based?
The Alex W Nielsen Foundation Nfp is based in IL.

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 13 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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