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The Nelson Family Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30k
Granted FY2018
9
Grants FY2018
9
Organizations funded FY2018
44%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2018
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 10
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 44% of the organizations The Nelson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20189$30k44%
FY201710$24kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Religion$30kHealth$5kArts & Culture$5kHuman Services$5kEmployment$3kCommunity Improvement$3kEducation$2kFood & Nutrition$500

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
111Project Inc$20,000215%
Lynn Wheeler Ministries Inc$8,0982n/a
Love OKC Inc$5,00015%
Allied Arts of Oklahoma Inc$5,00020%
Hope Is Alive Ministries Inc$5,00010%
Belay Global Inc$2,50014%
Dress for Success Oklahoma City Inc$2,50011%
North Church Inc$2,0002n/a
Filling Tummies$5001n/a
International Forum of Bible Agencies$25010%
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All grantees of The Nelson Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
111Project Inc$20,000215%
Lynn Wheeler Ministries Inc$8,0982n/a
Love OKC Inc$5,00015%
Allied Arts of Oklahoma Inc$5,00020%
Hope Is Alive Ministries Inc$5,00010%
Belay Global Inc$2,50014%
Dress for Success Oklahoma City Inc$2,50011%
North Church Inc$2,0002n/a
Filling Tummies$5001n/a
International Forum of Bible Agencies$25010%
American Cancer Society Inc$25010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($2k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Nelson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget111Project Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetLove OKC Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetAllied Arts of Oklahoma Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHope Is Alive Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBelay Global Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetDress for Success Oklahoma City Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetInternational Forum of Bible Agencies: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $250 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Servant FoundationKS16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Nelson Family Foundation

How much does The Nelson Family Foundation give?
The Nelson Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $29,848 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does The Nelson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Religion (57%), Health (10%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are The Nelson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: 111Project Inc ($20k), Lynn Wheeler Ministries Inc ($8k), Love OKC Inc ($5k).
Does The Nelson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Nelson Family 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 Nelson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Servant Foundation, The Signatry Charitable Trust, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is The Nelson Family Foundation based?
The Nelson Family Foundation is based in OK.

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 14 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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