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The Nelson Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIVERTREE SCHOOL | $270,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE CROSS | $210,000 |
| JONI AND FRIENDS | $200,000 |
| ELIC | $200,000 |
| AMBLESIDE SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL | $150,000 |
| LIVING WORD BIBLE CAMP | $130,000 |
| ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| AMBLESIDE SCHOOL COLORADO | $100,000 |
| GOODWORD PARTNERSHIP | $100,000 |
| BETHEL UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| THORNSTON EDUCATION FUND | $50,000 |
| NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FREEDOM PARK | $32,000 |
| THE DWELLING PLACE | $25,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k 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
- RSRIVERTREE SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $5.6M · revenue +114% · 88% of their budget
- JAJONI AND FRIENDS8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +81%
- ASAMBLESIDE SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +40% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- ASAMBLESIDE SCHOOL OF FREDERICKSBURGone grant, 2018 · $100k
- TETHE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $100k
- ADANGLICAN DIOCESE OF THE UPPER MIDWESTone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Educate, train and equip religious teachers and preachers
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
Christian leaders from africa promotes christian theological training & education of local leaders in kenya and throughout africa. it invests in undergraduate, masters, and phd scholarships, faculty support for african professors and…
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Post secondary and graduate educational institution The mission of Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary is to equip vocational Christian workers and other servant leaders while inspiring them to take the Word to the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Joni and Friends and the most unlike its peers is Juvenile Justice Advocates International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 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. 20 of the 31 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 RIVERTREE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA ↗
- Who funds AMBLESIDE SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GOODWORD PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FREEDOM PARK INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOSHUA FUND ↗
- Who funds The Dwelling Place ↗
- Who funds BRYDGES CENTRE ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING WORD BIBLE CAMP ↗
- Who funds Fishing For Life ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Leighton Ford Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Larson Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment 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 Nelson Family Foundation Inc 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.
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