Jonathan M Nelson Family Foundation

• The filing states no formal funding priorities or applicant conditions, and the foundation paid $3,930,250 in its latest filing.
• Its grants run across education, research, youth development, arts education and environmental conservation, with education the dominant purpose in its largest grants, so a grant writer should check whether their work sits in one of these areas.
• About 8 in 10 of its 26 grants to organisations fall between $5,000 and $1,000,000, and half were $20,000 or less, so a request in the low tens of thousands is a typical size rather than a ceiling.
• Its grants have mainly gone to organisations in Rhode Island and New York, but the filing states no geographic focus, so this is a pattern in its record and not a rule.
• The filing specifies no standard application format and no deadlines, and 13% of its grant dollars went to organisations it had funded before, so a short first letter is a reasonable approach to a new applicant.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Columbia University · To raise awareness and funding for transplation research across all organ disciplines.
  $1,020,0002023 tax year
• NewYork-Presbyterian Fund · To receive, solicit, and administer funds to be applied exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes of the ny and presbyterian hospital and any other health care related charitable organization approved by the board of directors
  $1,000,0002023 tax year
• Rockefeller University · To support annual fund
  $625,0002023 tax year
• Brown University · To provide education and prepare students to serve the community, nation and the world by communicating and preserving knowledge
  $500,0002023 tax year
• Harvard Business School · Educational - to support students needs
  $200,0002023 tax year
• Institute for Advanced Study · The institute exists to encourage and support fundamental scholarship the original, often speculative, thinking that produces advances in knowledge that change the way we understand the world.
  $150,0002023 tax year
• Northfield Mount Hermon School · Funds help support this coed boarding and day school.
  $100,0002023 tax year
• Milken Institute · To support annual fund
  $62,5002023 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.