Nielsen Foundation Inc
EIN 47-5513015 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 87 grants · $2.0m
Who it funds most
61 of its 157 grantees were funded in more than one year; 3 matching gifts set aside.
Nielsen Foundation Inc's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 40 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2024, filing 202523119349102017
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
A year with no bar has no grants on file yet: its returns may not be loaded. It is not a year without giving.
Its returns8 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IRS 990-PF | 202611359349102711 | IRS batch file |
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202523119349102017 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202431369349104513 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202342279349100024 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202221329349100302 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202123199349104422 | IRS batch file |
| 2018 | IRS 990-PF | 201913169349102236 | IRS batch file |
| 2017 | IRS 990-PF | 201823189349102852 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Nielsen Foundation Inc made 398 grants across 2017–2025, totalling $14.8m as filed.
- Grants
- 398
- Total, as filed
- $14.8m
- Years
- 2017–2025
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| TAMPA BAY WAVE INC | 6 | $1.3m |
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION | 5 | $1.3m |
| NATIONAL AFTERSCHOOL ASSOCIATION | 6 | $1.2m |
| ADVERTISING COUNCIL INC | 7 | $525.0k |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA INC | 5 | $500.0k |
| THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND | 6 | $453.5k |
| AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE | 2 | $400.0k |
| BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | 8 | $300.0k |
| HISPANIC FEDERATION INC | 6 | $300.0k |
| INTERNATIONAL RADIO TELEVISION SOCIETY FOUNDATION | 6 | $292.5k |
| TAMPA BAY WAVE | 2 | $264.0k |
| YEAR UP INC | 3 | $250.0k |
| GEENA DAVIS INSTITUTE AT MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIV | 3 | $225.0k |
| FPF EDUCATION AND INNOVATION FOUNDATION | 5 | $220.0k |
| GEENA DAVIS INSTITUTE ON GENDER IN MEDIA | 3 | $200.0k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 53 | $1.4m |
| 2018 | 57 | $1.7m |
| 2020 | 63 | $2.1m |
| 2021 | 50 | $2.0m |
| 2022 | 52 | $2.0m |
| 2023 | 23 | $1.3m |
| 2024 | 52 | $2.5m |
| 2025 | 48 | $1.9m |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-475513015. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified