· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +56% since the first grant, against +41% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 19 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 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 ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hermoine & Glen Nelson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hermoine & Glen Nelson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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