· Private foundation
The Hermoine & Glen 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $345k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $250,000 |
| JORDAN THOMAS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| BROOKS HOUSE | $75,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NASHVILLE | $70,000 |
| DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TN | $45,000 |
| BEYOND THE HORIZON CORPORATION | $40,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- JTJORDAN THOMAS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $705k · revenue +256%
- DSDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE8× · 2018–2025 · $285k · revenue +23%
- BTBEYOND THE HORIZON CORPORATION8× · 2018–2025 · $220k · revenue +69% · 51% of their budget
Funded once
- WCWILSON COUNTY COMMUNITY HELP CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +41%
- AIASMT INC dba AUTISM TENNESSEEone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
It is the organization's mission to provide every family and individual with autism spectrum disorders a place that they can receive the help they need to reach every goal in a safe, loving environment.
New horizons in autism, inc. is dedicated to serving individuals with autism and their families in new jersey by delivering community based services; providing advocacy, support and technical assistance; increasing public awareness and…
To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.
Ascendigo serves local, regional and national populations of youth and adults across the autism spectrum through experiential, community-based learning opportunities to enhance their health, abilities, personal growth and social engagement.
Provide day training and habilitation to adult individuals with developmental disabilities including an opportunity for integration, use of generic services, an opportunity to use natural and typical settings, services with age and social…
To provide an environment where children on the autistic spectrum can develop their potential academically, emotionally, socially, communicatively, physically and gain functional independence using programs and methods that are selected…
To provide support and services for persons with disabilities to enable them to become active members of the community.
Provide housing for developmentally disabled adults. Also to develop and provide educational and recreational programs to children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
To provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate…
Provides support services to individuals with disabilities in the form of outreach, training education, consultants and referrals requarding use of assistive technologies.
To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.
To provide exceptional pediatric therapy services to enhance the lives of children with special needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Horizons Coporation and the most unlike its peers is Love On a Leash Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 19 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 JORDAN THOMAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds BEYOND THE HORIZON CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS COPORATION ↗
- Who funds SADDLE UP ↗
- Who funds LOVE ON A LEASH INC ↗
- Who funds WILSON COUNTY COMMUNITY HELP CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASMT INC dba AUTISM TENNESSEE ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Hermoine & Glen 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.