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Bobby Nichols - Fiddlesticks Foundation Inc

The organization intends to hold an annual golf, pickleball and tennis tournament, and related auction, to raise funds which will be donated primarily to local 501(c)(3) charities.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$140,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$575,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$737k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Bobby Nichols - Fiddlesticks Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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
FY2025still arriving7$1.6M0%
FY20247$1.8M0%
FY20237$1.7M0%
FY20227$1.7M29%
FY20216$1.4M17%
FY20206$1.1M0%
FY20197$1.1M14%
FY20186$1.1M17%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$4.5MHealth$4.5MYouth Development$1.5MFood & Nutrition$1.3MHuman Services$316kPhilanthropy$85kRecreation & Sports$77kEducation$55k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Abuse Counseling & Treatment Inc$4,464,000910%
Children's Advocacy Center of Southwest Florida Inc$4,464,000913%
Blessings in a Backpack Inc$1,346,50091%
Liberty Youth Ranch LLC$1,135,0009n/a
Pace Center for Girlsinc$326,00040%
Catholic Charities Diocese of Venice Inc$316,00041%
Copper Cannon Corporation$77,00092%
Cincinnati Scholarship Foundation$45,00031%
Lauren's Kids Inc$15,00011%
Tre Boston Beyond Belief Foundation$9,5001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bobby Nichols - Fiddlesticks Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAbuse Counseling & Treatment Inc: $4,464,000 over 9y, 10% of budgetChildren's Advocacy Center of Southwest Florida Inc: $4,464,000 over 9y, 13% of budgetBlessings in a Backpack Inc: $1,346,500 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetPace Center for Girlsinc: $326,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCatholic Charities Diocese of Venice Inc: $316,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCopper Cannon Corporation: $77,000 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetCincinnati Scholarship Foundation: $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLauren's Kids Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 8.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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About Bobby Nichols - Fiddlesticks Foundation Inc

How much does Bobby Nichols - Fiddlesticks Foundation Inc give?
Bobby Nichols - Fiddlesticks Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $1,600,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Bobby Nichols - Fiddlesticks Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (36%), Health (36%), Youth Development (12%).
Who are Bobby Nichols - Fiddlesticks Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Abuse Counseling & Treatment Inc ($4.5M), Children's Advocacy Center of Southwest Florida Inc ($4.5M), Blessings in a Backpack Inc ($1.3M).
Does Bobby Nichols - Fiddlesticks Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bobby Nichols - Fiddlesticks Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Bobby Nichols - Fiddlesticks Foundation Inc based?
Bobby Nichols - Fiddlesticks Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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