· Private foundation
The Richard and Barbara Nelson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JERSEY SHORE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| SISTERS ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| SPRING LAKE MEMORIAL COMMUNITY HOUSE | $5,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TRINITY CHURCH | $5,000 |
| EXPAND ED SCHOOLS | $4,000 |
| ST CATHERINE'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,000 |
| HOME FRONT | $2,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE GUILD | $2,000 |
| MONMOUTH ARTS | $1,500 |
| WAVES OF HEALTH | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SPRING LAKE FIRE CO | $1,000 |
| SPRING LAKE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500 |
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 (FY22–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMercy Center Inc3× · 2020–2023 · $23k · revenue +56%
- SLSPRING LAKE MEMORIAL COMMUNITY HOUSE4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +6%
- GFGoodwill Fire Company Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- SLSPRING LAKE COMMUNITY HOUSEone grant, 2020 · $5k
- TETRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $5k
- ACAIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +140%
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.
The goal of the springfield rescue mission since 1892 has been to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the hungry, homeless, addicted, and poor by introducing them to christ and helping them apply the word of god to every area of their…
Provide fire/rescue services to the community
Our mission - to inspire our family with endless opportunities.our vision - to be the premier provider, offering exceptional services and innovative programs that empower those we serve and those who serve them to experience the best that…
The mission of the family health centers at nyu langone is to improve the overall health of the communities it serves by delivering high quality, culturally-competent primary car, and related services within community-based settings.
Our mission - to inspire our family with endless opportunities.our vision - to be the premier provider, offering exceptional services and innovative programs that empower those we serve and those who serve them to experience the best that…
To increase the number of healthy families in our community by providing high quality, comprehensive health services.
Providing a volunteer fire department that responds to fire calls in our town in a timely and professional manner
Medical
Our mission is to improve the health of our communities, working together with those we serve.
Spring hill is a private school where the talents of bright and gifted children are recognized, nurtured, and developed to their full potential. the school's accelerated and enriched curriculum supports academic success and encourages a…
The spring lake volunteer fire deptartment serves their community by responding to various emergencies, with firefighting at the forefront. in addition, they respond to motor vehicle accidents, fallen utility lines, water rescues,…
Blessing hospital's mission is to improve the health of our communities.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 22 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Richard and Barbara Nelson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Richard and Barbara Nelson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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