Harvey Nelson Char Tr
Chicago, IL · EIN 39-6307373. Reported 129 grants totalling $301,768 to 41 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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.
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.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marathon County Child Development Agency | Wausau, WI | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Wausa Attention Kim Larsen | Wausau, WI | $23,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Wausau East High School | Wausau, WI | $16,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Wausau West High School | Wausau, WI | $16,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Leigh Yawkey Wooodson Art Museum | Wausau, WI | $12,800 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Monk Botanical Gardens Attention Darcie Howard | Wausau, WI | $11,800 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Performing Arts Foundation | Wausau, WI | $11,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Woodson Ymcainvest in Youth Attention Bryan Bailey | Wausau, WI | $11,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| D C Everest Senior High School | Schoefield, WI | $11,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Wausau Inc Attention Kim Tallitsch | Weston, WI | $11,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| North Central Technical College Foundation Attn Vicki S Jeppe | Wausau, WI | $11,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Girl Scouts of the Northwestern Great | Appleton, WI | $10,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Marathon County Park Dept | Wausau, WI | $9,700 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Northland Luthern High School | Kronenwetter, WI | $8,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Uwmc Foundation | Wausau, WI | $8,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Wausau Lyric Choir | Wausau, WI | $7,600 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Wausau Conservatory of Music | Wausau, WI | $7,132 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Marathon County Child Development Agency Attention Kris Lemke | Wausau, WI | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Newman Catholic High School | Wausau, WI | $7,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Samoset Council Boys Scouts of America | Weston, WI | $6,400 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Junior Achievement of Wi Marathon County Attention Mari Jowett-S | Wausau, WI | $5,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Marathon County Historical Society | Wausau, WI | $5,400 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Open Door of Marathon County | Wausau, WI | $5,200 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Lake Dubay Lions Club | Wausau, WI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lake Dubay Lions Club Community Foundation of Nc Wi | Wausau, WI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| YWCA | Wausau, WI | $5,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Center for the Visual Arts Inc | Wausau, WI | $4,900 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Marathon County Park Fdn | Wausau, WI | $4,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| University of Wisconsin Stevens Point | Stevens Point, WI | $3,400 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| D C Everest High School | Schoefield, WI | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Junior Achievement of Wi-Northcentral | Wausau, WI | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northcentral Wisconsin Area | Wausau, WI | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ntc Foundation | Wausau, WI | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Wisconsin Campus Foundat | Wausau, WI | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wausaumarathon School Safety Patrols Inc | Wausau, WI | $2,636 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Junior Achievement of Wi-Northcentral Attention Mari Stein | Wausau, WI | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| University of Wisconsin Campus Foundat Attention Mara Prausa | Wausau, WI | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mosaic of North Central Wisconsin | Wausau, WI | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mosaic of North Central Wisconsin Attention Sam Salazar | Wausau, WI | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Newman High School | Wausau, WI | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wausaumarathon Cnty School Safety Patrols Inc | Wausau, WI | $800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
27 of 41 (66%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 82%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 34 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 27 | $59,400 | $2,000 |
| 2022 | 27 | $68,491 | $2,500 |
| 2023 | 26 | $59,250 | $2,000 |
| 2024 | 25 | $55,595 | $2,000 |
| 2025 | 24 | $59,032 | $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
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Wisconsin.
- 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.
- 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 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
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.
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