Michigan · Private foundation
Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $317k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 43 | $314k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $249k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $259k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $191k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $208k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $242k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 47 | $291k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $363k | 32% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden Harvest | $110,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Frankenmuth Farmers Market | $60,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Michigan Health Improvement Alliance | $60,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Major Chords for Minors | $54,500 | 6 | 13% |
| READ Association of Saginaw County | $43,130 | 8 | 3% |
| Great Lakes Bay Health Centers | $34,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Underground Railroad Inc | $34,358 | 7 | 0% |
| Emmaus House of Saginaw Inc | $33,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Mid-Michigan Children's Museum | $33,009 | 4 | 2% |
| Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 85 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
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About Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation
- How much does Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation give?
- Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $317,445 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Human Services (13%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
- Who are Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hidden Harvest ($110k), Frankenmuth Farmers Market ($60k), Michigan Health Improvement Alliance ($60k).
- Does Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation, Saginaw Community Foundation, Frank N Andersen Foundation.
- Where is Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation based?
- Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation is based in MI.
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