· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RISEN AGENDA | $14,339 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY | $13,000 |
| HUNTS FOR THE BRAVE | $11,000 |
| YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER | $10,010 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,165 |
| YOUTH IMPACT | $5,000 |
| BANK OF UTAH COATS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $2,000 |
| HUNTSMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION | $1,030 |
| WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY | $800 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION | $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 (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 its grants land in higher-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.
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
How this is measured
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 +53%
Funded once
- WCWeber County School District Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +471%
- LLLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
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…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Scott D and Carol a Nelson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Scott D and Carol a Nelson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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