About Nexus Foundation for Family Healing
The Nexus Foundation for Family Healing advances Nexus Family Healing’s mission by securing philanthropic investments that wrap around and enhance the high-quality, trauma-focused care provided by Nexus Family Healing, increasing access to care and filling gaps in services for children and families.
Focus Areas
Children's mental healthFamily mental healthCommunity mental health therapyCrisis and stabilization servicesFoster care and adoptionResidential treatmentClinical/trauma-focused servicesRecreation, arts and wellness programsEducation, vocation and life skills
Who They Fund
students (academy)school/education institutionfaculty and staff of the academy
About Nexus Foundation for Family Healing
A defining feature of Nexus Foundation for Family Healing is that its largest recent grants go directly to Nexus Family Healing affiliates and related programs, with a $746,756 general-support grant to Nexus Family Healing in 2023 and a $537,935 general-support grant to Nexus-PATH Family Healing in 2024. That pattern points to a funder built around strengthening Nexus Family Healing’s own trauma-focused service network rather than spreading support broadly across unrelated organizations. The foundation backs children and families through general support for residential treatment, crisis and stabilization services, foster care and adoption, and clinical trauma-focused care. Its recent grants also show support for a school-linked program, including Gerard Academy. In the 2025 grants list, the foundation continued funding multiple Nexus-affiliated entities in Plymouth, Minnesota, and Fargo, North Dakota, while keeping the emphasis on unrestricted or core institutional support. The result is a grantmaking profile centered on sustaining service capacity, staffing, and mission delivery across a connected family-healing system.
What Nexus Foundation for Family Healing Funds
In children’s mental health and family mental health, the foundation gave $317,467 to Nexus-Gerard Family Healing for general support and $169,170 to Nexus Family Healing for general support for Gerard Academy. Those awards connect the funder to trauma-focused care and a school-related setting within the Nexus network. Its support also reaches foster care and adoption, with $283,611 to Nexus-Kindred Family Healing for general support in 2024 and $255,918 to Nexus Kindred Family Healing for general support in 2025. On the residential-treatment side, it awarded $136,535 to Nexus-Woodbourne Familiy Healing for general support in 2024 and $128,816 to Nexus Woodbourne Family Healing for general support in 2025. The foundation also backed community mental health therapy and crisis and stabilization services through general-support grants to Nexus-PATH Family Healing.
How Nexus Foundation for Family Healing Gives
Typical grant size sits at $136,535 at the 25th percentile, $297,411 at the median, and $317,467 at the 75th percentile, showing a cluster of mid-to-large awards rather than very small grants. The recent record is dominated by general support, which aligns with the foundation’s core-institutional approach. Recipients also appear across multiple years: Nexus Family Healing, Nexus-PATH Family Healing, Nexus-Kindred Family Healing, and Nexus-Woodbourne Familiy Healing all received grants in more than one year. The foundation does not fund individuals and makes no program-related investments.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$1.1M
Total Assets
$2.2M
Total Revenue
$1.5M
Total Expenses
$1.3M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $137K and $317K, with a median of $297K.
25th Percentile
$137K
Median
$297K
75th Percentile
$317K
Geographic Reach
Regional2 states funded
About 78% of grants go to recipients in MN.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
Dr Michelle Murray
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