Louisiana · Private foundation
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.
- $39k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $450
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $465k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations The Nelson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 33 | $38k | 55% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $32k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $33k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $33k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $29k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $16k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $12k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $14k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Northwest Louisiana | $50,100 | 5 | 1% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkansas & North Louisiana Inc | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Arc Caddo-Bossier Foundation | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Shreveport Symphony Inc | $8,100 | 7 | 0% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Renewal International Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Gingerbread House Bossiercaddo Children's Advocacy Center Inc | $4,000 | 8 | 0% |
| C E Byrd Foundation Inc | $2,700 | 3 | 6% |
| Georgetown University | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| St Lukes Episcopal Mobile Medical Ministry Inc | $1,600 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($108k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Nelson 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: 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
How this is measured
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About The Nelson Foundation
- How much does The Nelson Foundation give?
- The Nelson Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $39,232 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Nelson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (26%), Philanthropy (24%), Education (16%).
- Who are The Nelson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of Northwest Louisiana ($50k), Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkansas & North Louisiana Inc ($10k), The Arc Caddo-Bossier Foundation ($9k).
- Does The Nelson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Nelson 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Louisiana, The Powers Foundation Inc, Grayson Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Nelson Foundation based?
- The Nelson Foundation is based in LA.
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