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Thomas Nelson Abdella MD Foundation at a glance

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Thomas Nelson Abdella MD Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
76
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$253k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$885kHuman Services$836kHousing & Shelter$722kEducation$433kFood & Nutrition$329kPublic Safety & Disaster$135kYouth Development$114kReligion$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $945k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $640k
  • $250k+1 grant · $253k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Olive Crest$252,500
UNLV Foundation$134,500
Macon Volunteer Clinic$100,000
Macon Area Habitat Humanity$100,000
Volunteers in Medicine$100,000
Nevada Hand$55,000
Mercer University - School of Engin$50,000
493 Firefighter Foundation$50,000
A New Leaf$50,000
St Jude Children's Research Hospita$40,000
St Mary's Food Bank$40,000
St Vincent DePaul$40,000
UMOM New Day Centers$30,000
Mission228$30,000
Atlanta Community Food Bank$25,215
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $437k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Maggie's Place Inc: $25k → 11%Paws with a Cause: $3k → 10%Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry: $25k → 9%Help of Southern Nevada: $5k → 13%Maggie's Place: $20k → 11%Saving Jane Inc: $5k → 13%Nevada Kids Foundation Inc: $5k → 10%Ryan House: $25k → 11%Las Vegas Rescue Mission: $5k → 13%Ryan House: $25k → 11%Hope for Prisoners Inc: $5k → 13%Las Vegas Rescue Mission: $2k → 13%Hope Womens Center Inc: $25k → 11%Rescue Mission of Middle Georgia: $25k → 23%Rebuilding Macon Inc: $21k → 23%Ability360: $25k → 11%Hope Women's Center: $20k → 11%Rescue Mission of Middle Georgia In: $18k → 23%Rebuilding Macon Inc: $5k → 23%Fresh Start Women's Foundation: $20k → 11%Ability360: $20k → 11%Sojourner Center: $20k → 11%Baby's Bounty: $1k → 13%The Garden Foundation: $5k → 13%Crowns of Courage: $10k → 11%Project 150: $2k → 13%Crowns of courage: $5k → 11%Nevada Blind Children's Foundation: $1k → 13%Sojourner Center: $25k → 11%Soldiers Best Friend: $15k → 11%Living Grace Homes Inc: $5k → 13%Soldiers Best Friend: $15k → 11%Safe House Inc: $2k → 13%Street Teens: $2k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NV
IA
CA
AZ
KS
TN
SC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 34 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
49

Total granted

$1.8M
$796k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
-4%

Still filing today

79%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEducationCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MV
    MACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +39%
  • UN
    UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $80k · revenue +9%
  • AN
    A NEW LEAF
    2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Nevada Las Vegas
    one grant, 2023 · $204k
  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $85k
  • VI
    Volunteers in Medicine of Southern
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Safe Nesttemporary Assistance for

Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.

Human Services
2
Christian Family Care Agency Inc

The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…

Human Services
3
The Shade Tree Inc

The shade tree, inc. (organization), a nevada nonprofit corporation, provides temporary shelter for homeless and abused women and children in crisis and offers life-changing services promoting stability, dignity, and self reliance. the…

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4
Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas

Habitat for humanity las vegas, inc. (habitat) a not-for-profit organization located in las vegas, nevada was established in 1990. habitat's purpose is to build low cost houses with the help of the homeowner families, which are transferred…

Housing & Shelter
5
City Rescue Mission Inc

Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.

Human Services
6
Phoenix Gospel Mission

Provide christ-centered, life-transforming solutions to persons facing hunger, homelessness, addiction, and trauma. the phoenix rescue mission is a place of hope, healing, and new beginnings for men, women, and children in our community.

Religion
7
New Vista Ranch Inc

New vista is committed to providing people of all ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities, equitable opportunities, and supported living arrangements so that they may experience life to the fullest.

Human Services
8
Foster 360

Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.

Human Services
9
Save the Family Foundation of Arizona

Save the family equips families to address poverty, overcome homelessness and acheive self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
10
Safe Embrace

Safe Embrace is committed to ending the cycle of domestic and sexual violence with innovative prevention and intervention services. We help victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking become survivors by providing…

Health
11
City Help Inc of Phoenix

Our mission is to reach in and mine the incredible potential we believe lies within the lives of at-risk youth, the homeless, and needy families of our community by restoring hope and allowing them to dream again.

Human Services
12
Hubbard House Inc

Safety, empowerment, and social change for victims of domestic violence and their families. to that end we offer a full compendium of services for victims of domestic violence.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Women's Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Project 34. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 125 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/81
Grantees still filing
40/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Nevada Las Vegas: $204,330 · OtherUniversity of Nevada Las VegasIndividual grant recipient: $197,902 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHabitat for Humanity Inc: $85,000 · OtherVolunteers in Medicine of Southern: $75,000 · OtherHouston County Volunteer Medical Cl: $75,000 · OtherMIDDLE GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $62,794 · OtherCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $75,000 · Other+63 more: $1,013,282 · Other+63 moreOLIVE CREST: $252,500 · HealthOLIVE CRESTMACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC INC: $200,000 · HealthMACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC…VMSN INC: $100,000 · HealthVMSN INCA NEW LEAF: $75,000 · HealthA NEW LEAFST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $40,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RES…+8 more: $70,635 · Health+8 moreRYAN HOUSE: $50,000 · Human ServicesRYAN HOUSESOJOURNER CENTER: $45,000 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER CENT…ABILITY360 INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesABILITY360 INCHOPE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesHOPE WOMEN'S C…MAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesMAGGIE'S PLACE…RESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC: $43,221 · Human ServicesRESCUE MISSION…ANGELS ON PATROL INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesANGELS ON PATR…SOLDIERS BEST FRIEND: $30,000 · Human ServicesSOLDIERS BEST …REBUILDING MACON INC: $25,747 · Human ServicesREBUILDING MAC…LAWRENCEVILLE COOPERATIVE MINISTRY INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human Services+15 more: $63,872 · Human Services+15 moreMACON AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $80,000 · Housing & ShelterCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterVALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $10,235 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $134,500 · EducationMission228 Inc: $55,000 · EducationFETUSNET: $15,000 · EducationATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $62,082 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $60,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC: $36,240 · Food & NutritionGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $16,620 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $5,175 · Food & NutritionDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $65,000 · ReligionSoutheast Gwinnett Cooperative Ministry Inc: $31,240 · ReligionFAMILY PROMISE - GREATER PHOENIX: $20,000 · Religion
Other$1,788,308Health$738,135Human Services$472,840Housing & Shelter$240,235Education$204,500Food & Nutrition$180,117Religion$116,240

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOLIVE CREST: $252,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC INC: $200,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $134,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMACON AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $100,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetVMSN INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA NEW LEAF: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $62,794 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $62,082 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMission228 Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetRYAN HOUSE: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetARIZONA BURN FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSOJOURNER CENTER: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetABILITY360 INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget100 CLUB OF ARIZONA: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC: $43,221 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC: $36,240 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANGELS ON PATROL INC: $35,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetSoutheast Gwinnett Cooperative Ministry Inc: $31,240 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOLDIERS BEST FRIEND: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetREBUILDING MACON INC: $25,747 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetHOUSTON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $25,150 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLAWRENCEVILLE COOPERATIVE MINISTRY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNew Pathways For Youth: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOTIS REDDING FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetACADEMY FOR CLASSICAL EDUCATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHY MOTHERS HEALTHY BABIES COALITION OF GA INC: $20,747 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE - GREATER PHOENIX: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $16,620 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROWNS OF COURAGE: $15,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetHUNKAPI PROGRAMS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetARIZONA VETERANS MISSION GROUP: $15,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA SEARCH DOGS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION: $10,400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $10,235 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNSHINE NEVADA ORGANIZATION: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LAS VEGAS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Wynn Resorts Foundati…United Way of Souther…Nevada Community Foun…Mgm Resorts FoundationMondays DarkVegas Golden Knights …Engelstad Family Foun…Thunderbirds CharitiesNV Energy Charitable …Raiders Foundation NvSpeedway Children's C…BHHS Legacy Foundation
Wynn Resorts FoundationNV32.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wynn Resorts Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Mondays Dark · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Engelstad Family Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Raiders Foundation Nv · Speedway Children's Charities · BHHS Legacy Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thomas Nelson Abdella MD Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas Nelson Abdella MD Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 125 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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