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Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$287k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2026
20
Organizations funded FY2025
20%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 20
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
5
Total assets, FY2026
$6.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 20% of the organizations Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitPhilanthropyEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving12$282k42%
FY202520$220k20%
FY202414$190k29%
FY202315$185k20%
FY202215$192k13%
FY202114$155k7%
FY202015$131k27%
FY201914$123k36%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$255kEducation$195kArts & Culture$175kRecreation & Sports$173kYouth Development$145kInternational$92kPublic Benefit$85kEnvironment$77kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
WY
AR
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Antelope Butte Foundation Inc$142,00074%
Student Diplomacy Corps Inc$104,000101%
Sheridan Community Land Trust$96,50091%
Extremity Nerve Research Foundation$85,0008n/a
Damien House Inc$70,50083%
Nickerson Family Association Inc$66,50087%
Story Community Library Inc$50,00028%
University of Wyoming Foundation$37,00030%
Natural History Museum of Wyoming Inc$35,0001n/a
Big Horn Education Fund Inc$30,800105%
Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Antelope Butte Foundation Inc$142,00074%
Student Diplomacy Corps Inc$104,000101%
Sheridan Community Land Trust$96,50091%
Extremity Nerve Research Foundation$85,0008n/a
Damien House Inc$70,50083%
Nickerson Family Association Inc$66,50087%
Story Community Library Inc$50,00028%
University of Wyoming Foundation$37,00030%
Natural History Museum of Wyoming Inc$35,0001n/a
Big Horn Education Fund Inc$30,800105%
Northern Wyoming Community College Foundation$30,00021%
Sheridan Kids Life$30,00022%
The New Museum at the Bradford Brinton Ranch$30,00041%
Science Kids$21,00022%
Big Horn Women's Club$20,0001n/a
Trinity Village Inc$16,66620%
Big Horn City Historical Society$13,0001n/a
St Olaf College$10,00010%
Wyo Theatre Inc$10,00011%
Rooted in Wyoming$10,0001n/a
Sheridan Rotary Foundation$5,00019%
The Heartland Institute$5,00010%
Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce$3,90011%
The Philanthropy Roundtable$3,00020%
Wyoming Association for Creative Youth$2,00019%
Alliance for Historic Wyoming Inc$1,00011%
Volunteers of America Northern Rockies$50010%
Tongue River Valley Community Center$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($838k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAntelope Butte Foundation Inc: $142,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetStudent Diplomacy Corps Inc: $104,000 over 10y, 1.2% of budgetSheridan Community Land Trust: $96,500 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetDamien House Inc: $70,500 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetNickerson Family Association Inc: $66,500 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetStory Community Library Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetUniversity of Wyoming Foundation: $37,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBig Horn Education Fund Inc: $30,800 over 10y, 4.6% of budgetNorthern Wyoming Community College Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSheridan Kids Life: $30,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetThe New Museum at the Bradford Brinton Ranch: $30,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetScience Kids: $21,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTrinity Village Inc: $16,666 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt Olaf College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWyo Theatre Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSheridan Rotary Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetThe Heartland Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSheridan County Chamber of Commerce: $3,900 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Philanthropy Roundtable: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWyoming Association for Creative Youth: $2,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetAlliance for Historic Wyoming Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVolunteers of America Northern Rockies: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTongue River Valley Community Center: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott FoundationWY30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · Bf & Rose H Perkins Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · William F Welch & Lorene W Welch Foundation · Joe F and Roberta Napier Foundation · Forrest E Mars Jr Sheridan Charitable · The Roberts Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation

How much does Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation give?
Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $287,100 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Health (17%), Education (13%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Antelope Butte Foundation Inc ($142k), Student Diplomacy Corps Inc ($104k), Sheridan Community Land Trust ($97k).
Does Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation, Wyoming Community Foundation, Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc.
Where is Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation based?
Anne & Scott Nickerson Family Foundation is based in WY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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