· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| AMBLESIDE SCHOOL COLORADO | $100,000 |
| ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $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 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RSRIVERTREE SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $5.6M · revenue +114% · 88% of their budget
- JAJONI AND FRIENDS8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +82%
- ASAMBLESIDE SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +40% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- TETHE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $100k
- ASAMBLESIDE SCHOOL OF FREDERICKSBURGone grant, 2018 · $100k
- ADANGLICAN DIOCESE OF THE UPPER MIDWESTone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
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.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 31 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 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 The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Leighton Ford Ministries Inc ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Nelson Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nelson Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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