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Harvey Nelson Char Tr

Chicago, IL · EIN 39-6307373. Reported 105 grants totalling $242,736 to 38 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$242,736granted, 2021-2024
38organizations funded
81%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,402,811assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Harvey Nelson Char Tr did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,200 and $3,000; the smallest was $600 and the largest $8,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
5 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
91 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
9 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Boys & Girls Club of Wausa Attention Kim LarsenWausau, WI$19,500442024
Marathon County Child Development AgencyWausau, WI$19,000332024
Wausau East High SchoolWausau, WI$12,000442024
Wausau West High SchoolWausau, WI$12,000442024
Leigh Yawkey Wooodson Art MuseumWausau, WI$10,800442024
Marathon County Park DeptWausau, WI$9,700332023
Woodson Ymcainvest in Youth Attention Bryan BaileyWausau, WI$9,500442024
Monk Botanical Gardens Attention Darcie HowardWausau, WI$9,300442024
North Central Technical College Foundation Attn Vicki S JeppeWausau, WI$9,000332024
Performing Arts FoundationWausau, WI$9,000442024
Habitat for Humanity of Wausau Inc Attention Kim TallitschWeston, WI$8,500442024
Girl Scouts of the Northwestern GreatAppleton, WI$8,000442024
Uwmc FoundationWausau, WI$8,000332023
D C Everest Senior High SchoolSchoefield, WI$7,000332024
Marathon County Child Development Agency Attention Kris LemkeWausau, WI$7,000112021
Northland Luthern High SchoolKronenwetter, WI$6,000442024
Wausau Lyric ChoirWausau, WI$5,600442024
Junior Achievement of Wi Marathon County Attention Mari Jowett-SWausau, WI$5,500222022
Lake Dubay Lions ClubWausau, WI$5,000112022
Lake Dubay Lions Club Community Foundation of Nc WiWausau, WI$5,000112021
Newman Catholic High SchoolWausau, WI$5,000332024
YWCAWausau, WI$5,000332023
Wausau Conservatory of MusicWausau, WI$4,600442024
Marathon County Historical SocietyWausau, WI$4,400442024
Samoset Council Boys Scouts of AmericaWeston, WI$4,400442024
The Open Door of Marathon CountyWausau, WI$4,200442024
Center for the Visual Arts IncWausau, WI$3,900442024
University of Wisconsin Stevens PointStevens Point, WI$3,400332023
D C Everest High SchoolSchoefield, WI$3,000112021
Junior Achievement of Wi-NorthcentralWausau, WI$3,000112024
Northcentral Wisconsin AreaWausau, WI$3,000112023
Ntc FoundationWausau, WI$3,000112021
University of Wisconsin Campus FoundatWausau, WI$3,000112024
Wausaumarathon School Safety Patrols IncWausau, WI$2,636332024
Marathon County Park FdnWausau, WI$2,000112024
Mosaic of North Central WisconsinWausau, WI$1,000112024
Newman High SchoolWausau, WI$1,000112021
Wausaumarathon Cnty School Safety Patrols IncWausau, WI$800112021

26 of 38 (68%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 81%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 24 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
16 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Education
3 grants
Human Services
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202127$59,400$2,000
202227$68,491$2,500
202326$59,250$2,000
202425$55,595$2,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Wausau, WI
$202K
Weston, WI
$13K
Schoefield, WI
$10K
Appleton, WI
$8K
Kronenwetter, WI
$6K
Stevens Point, WI
$3K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Community Foundation of8 shared recipientsBa & Esther Greenheck Foundation8 shared recipientsGreen Bay Packers Foundation6 shared recipientsDudley Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsJudd S Alexander Foundation4 shared recipientsVictor & Helen Geisel Foundation4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Wisconsin.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Harvey Nelson Char Tr's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 95672, Chicago, IL, 60694. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 39-6307373 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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