· Private foundation
The Scott D and Carol a Nelson Family 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 $10k10 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RISEN AGENDA | $14,339 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,000 |
| HUNTS FOR THE BRAVE | $11,000 |
| YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER | $10,010 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,165 |
| BANK OF UTAH COATS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| YOUTH IMPACT | $5,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| HUNTSMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION | $1,030 |
| WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY | $800 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION | $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 (FY19–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- YFYCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +41%
- MBMAJOR BRENT TAYLOR LEADERSHIP LEGAC2× · 2019–2021 · $7k · revenue +345%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC6× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- WCWeber County School District Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +471%
- LLLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.
To promote student success in the Salt Lake City School District by using private donations to supplement children's educational experiences.
To promote and support Utah Tech University previously Dixie State University and its various scientific educational and other activities programs and services.
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
Our mission is to fund and support educator-powered initiatives that inspire all Park City students to reach their academic and lifelong potential.
Canyons School District Education Foundation works in tandem with community and business partners to build support for public schools and to advance Canyons School Districts mission to help every student become college- and career-ready…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ycc Family Crisis Center and the most unlike its peers is Major Brent Taylor Leadership Legac. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 28 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 YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAJOR BRENT TAYLOR LEADERSHIP LEGAC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Weber County School District Foundation ↗
- Who funds OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS Of Great Salt Lake ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
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: Rechieve Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · America First Credit Union Charitable Foundation · Nebeker Family Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · The Community Foundation of Utah · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization The Scott D and Carol a Nelson Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.