· Private foundation
Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $137k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hidden Harvest | $40,000 |
| Frankenmuth Convention & Visitors Bureau | $30,000 |
| Delta College Foundation | $24,000 |
| SVSU Foundation | $20,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of GLBRYMCA | $16,000 |
| YMCA | $12,500 |
| Saginaw Covenant Academy | $12,500 |
| Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan | $12,500 |
| Frankenmuth City Pickleball Courts | $12,500 |
| The Well of Saginaw Men's Shelter | $9,500 |
| Food Bank of Eastern Michigan | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,500 |
| CAN Council | $8,120 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Emmaus House | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.
68 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HHHIDDEN HARVEST2× · 2024–2025 · $110k · revenue +93%
- MCMAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS6× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +25%
- GLGreat Lakes Bay Health Centers4× · 2018–2021 · $35k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- MFMARY FREE BED AT COVENANTone grant, 2023 · $40k
- FFFRANKENMUTH FARMER'S MARKET GROUPone grant, 2021 · $28k
- FJFRANKENMUTH JAYCEES SPLASH PADone grant, 2018 · $25k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
The historical society of saginaw county is committed to serve the community by telling the continuing story of the people of the saginaw region through exploration, preservation and presentation of their historical and cultural heritage.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
The Historical Society of Michigan will foster in citizens a deeper understanding of and appreciation for all Michigan history through programs and publications; preserve and promote Michigan history through conferences, publications,…
Promotion of conventions & tourism in saginaw county
Support library activities through materials and services
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
Our mission is to assist our affiliates to increase capacity to build simple decent homes in partnership with people in need in the State of Michigan.
To address and improve food equity by providing access to healthy foods and nutritional resources to individuals and communities.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
The mission of saginaw county community action committee, inc. is to fully participate in the development, planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs to serve low-income communities. the organization will serve as a proactive and…
How this is measured
45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 141 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HIDDEN HARVEST ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRANKENMUTH FARMERS MARKET ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS ↗
- Who funds READ Association of Saginaw County ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Bay Health Centers ↗
- Who funds UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS HOUSE OF SAGINAW INC ↗
- Who funds MID-MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds DELTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Morley Foundation · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Harvey Randall Wickes Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Boutell Memorial Fund · Yeo Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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