How much did THE NELSON FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of THE NELSON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

—

2019

carechildren

2020

carechildren

2021

carechildren

2022

—

2023

children

2024

createfurther churchchurch ministrieschildren

2025

further childhoodchildhood educationpediatrichousing developmentaldevelopmental disabledcancercreate

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k33 grants · $29k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$450

Median grant

States reached

$1.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA$10,100
ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL$9,300
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$3,332
CENTENARY COLLEGE$3,300
SEA CREST SCHOOL$1,000
THE ARC OF CADDO BOSSIER FOUNDATION$1,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA$1,000
COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL$1,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$1,000
SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$1,000
HOLY ANGELS$1,000
ST LUKES EPISCOPAL MOBILE MEDICAL$800
GINGERBREAD HOUSE$500
ROBINSON FILM CENTER$500
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$198k · 21 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$198k

$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%

+38%

Still filing today

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

TS
THE SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY
7× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +1%
CR
COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL
5× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +45%
GH
GINGERBREAD HOUSE
4× · 2022–2025 · $2k · revenue +118%

Funded once

CB
CE BYRD FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2019 · $3k
LM
LOUISIANA METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME
one grant, 2017 · $2k
WP
WOMEN'S PHILANHROPY NETWORK
one grant, 2024 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Lsu Research Foundation

Community Improvement

University of New Orleans Research and

To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.

Health

Lsu Health Sciences Foundation in

The sole mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in lsu health shreveport and to properly steward contributions toward its support.

Philanthropy

Shreveport Symphony Guild Inc

Promote and support development of the local Shreveport Symphony, the Nena Plant Wideman competition, and to further the appreciation of symphonic music and allied arts through education

Arts & Culture

Lsu Real Estate and Facilities

The lsu real estate and facilities foundation encompasses all areas of facilities development, including campus master planning, project development, real estate transactions, design and construction and facilities operations, as well as…

Education

Beauregard Health System Foundation Inc

To assist in improving healthcare in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana.

Health

University of New Orleans Foundation

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…

Education

Lsu Health Sciences Building Foundation

Our mission is to inspire donors to invest in lsu health shreveport and steward contributions toward its support. the foundation will acquire, hold, encumber, improve, lease, donate and/or sell real property on behalf of the related…

Education

Univ of Louisiana At Lafayette

The foundation provides philanthropic support services to enhance fundraising, asset management and stewardship functions, aiding the university of louisiana at lafayette in furthering its mission of providing an exceptional education.

Education

Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans

To inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans and its future.

Health

Louisiana Clean Energy Fund

To provide financial and technical support to the State of Louisiana in its pursuit of public and private funding necessary to achieve goals for clean energy projects that enhance the well-being of Louisiana citizens and residents.

Environment

Louisiana Christian University

Operation of baptist college campus

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Biomedical Research Foundation of. 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 39 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/24

the rest of the field

14%

788/5,728

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.

05the grantee network

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/24

Grantees still filing

19/24

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$183,864Human Services$10,500Arts & Culture$8,700Community Improvement$5,350Education$4,250Health$3,300Philanthropy$1,450

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.

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.

The Community Foundation of NorthLA22.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of North · The Powers Foundation Inc · Grayson Foundation Inc · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird · J B Atkins Foundation · Zadeck Family Foundation · Wheless Foundation · United Way of Northwest Louisiana · American Electric Power Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SHREVEPORT GARDEN STUDY CLUB.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~68 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 721337041 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SHREVEPORT GARDEN STUDY CLUB, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 68 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Nelson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Nelson Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE NELSON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Nelson Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE NELSON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Nelson Foundation?

More from the funding graph