· Private foundation
Victor and Mary Nelson Scholarship Fund
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON | $76,500 |
| UNIVERISTY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH | $39,750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR | $32,250 |
| UNIVERISTY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIES | $26,750 |
| NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $22,750 |
| COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC | $10,750 |
| BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY | $9,500 |
| MICHIGAN TECHOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $8,500 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO | $8,250 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $8,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE | $7,500 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $6,500 |
| HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE | $6,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - RIVER FALLS | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON2× · 2024–2025 · $120k
- UOUNIVERISTY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH2× · 2024–2025 · $74k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR ALUMNI ASSOC2× · 2024–2025 · $74k · revenue 0% · 64% of their budget
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATERone grant, 2024 · $7k
- NCNORTHLAND COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue -19%
- ASADAMS STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $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.
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
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The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…
Located in south hadley, massachusetts, mount holyoke college is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, research liberal arts college for women that is gender-diverse and welcomes applications from female, transgender, and…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
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Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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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 21 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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR ALUMNI ASSOC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND COLLEGE ↗
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: Frank & Susan Huettner Educ Fd · Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Inc · Culver's Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Victor and Mary Nelson Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Victor and Mary Nelson Scholarship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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