Delaware · Private foundation
The Margaret Ellen 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.
- $803k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $38M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The Margaret Ellen Nielsen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $553k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $544k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $432k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $358k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $170k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $131k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $214k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $250k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Presbyterian Church in North Palm Beach Inc | $854,500 | 5 | n/a |
| InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA | $672,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Urban Youth Impact Inc | $275,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Lever Inc | $240,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Williams College | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Scholarship America Inc | $86,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Youth Volunteer Corps | $82,500 | 4 | 6% |
| Southwick Civic Fund Inc | $80,000 | 2 | n/a |
| International Fellowship of Evangelical Students USA Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Worldwide Discipleship Association | $41,800 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 23 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($90k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Margaret Ellen Nielsen Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Margaret Ellen Nielsen Foundation with peer funders
About The Margaret Ellen Nielsen Foundation
- How much does The Margaret Ellen Nielsen Foundation give?
- The Margaret Ellen Nielsen Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $802,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Margaret Ellen Nielsen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (55%), Youth Development (12%), Education (9%).
- Who are The Margaret Ellen Nielsen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: First Presbyterian Church in North Palm Beach Inc ($855k), InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ($672k), Urban Youth Impact Inc ($275k).
- Does The Margaret Ellen Nielsen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Margaret Ellen Nielsen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Margaret Ellen Nielsen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is The Margaret Ellen Nielsen Foundation based?
- The Margaret Ellen Nielsen Foundation is based in DE.
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