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The 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA | $10,100 |
| ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL | $9,300 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $3,332 |
| CENTENARY COLLEGE | $3,300 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA | $1,000 |
| THE ARC OF CADDO BOSSIER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SEA CREST SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| HOLY ANGELS | $1,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ST LUKES EPISCOPAL MOBILE MEDICAL | $800 |
| GINGERBREAD HOUSE | $500 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| ROBINSON FILM CENTER | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 — 15 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- TATHE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +125%
- SSSHREVEPORT SYMPHONY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +1%
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND3× · 2019–2021 · $8k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- LMLOUISIANA METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOMEone grant, 2017 · $2k
- TGThe Glen Retirement Systemgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +56%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
The sole mission of the foundation is to support, enhance and assist the lsu health sciences center at shreveport in its many endeavors.
The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…
The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…
All functions of the foundation are dedicated to supporting lsu health sciences center at shreveport.
The mission is to protect, promote, and foster the welfare of louisiana state university and to create and nurture mutually beneficial relationships between the university and its alumni and friends. the association, using the talents and…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
-To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.-To encourage teaching, research, scholarship, and services, and increase…
Using direct representation and advocacy, we fight to keep children out of the justice system so that they can thrive in their homes and communities.
To promote excellence in science, technology, and education by supporting education and research projects that enhance the economy of louisiana.
To be a provider of top quality education to a highly diverse student body. it will prepare all students for success in college, equip them with the ability and desire for lifelong learning, and strengthen their civic, ethical, and moral…
To assist in improving healthcare in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana.
To provide sound analysis of state fiscal issues to promote economic prosperity, a rising standard of living, and the opportunity for all citizens to reach their highest potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of North Louisiana and the most unlike its peers is C E Byrd Foundation Inc. 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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 14% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 52 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 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds GINGERBREAD HOUSE BOSSIERCADDO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds C E BYRD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST LUKES EPISCOPAL MOBILE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Red River Film Society Inc ↗
- Who funds SEA CREST SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Glen Retirement System ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT GARDEN STUDY CLUB ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT ↗
- Who funds Arts Council of New Orleans ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS FOR YOUTH JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND ARTHRITIS ↗
- Who funds ROBINSONS RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO ERADICATE DUCHENNE 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: Community Foundation of North Louisiana · The Powers Foundation Inc · Grayson Foundation Inc · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · Zadeck Family Foundation · Willis-Knighton Medical Center · The Crow Foundation · The Alta and John Franks Foundation · J B Atkins Foundation · Noel Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Louisiana · Poindexter Foundation Inc
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 Foundation 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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