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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 FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$575k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $427k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$140,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$737k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SW FLORIDA$575,000
ABUSE COUNSELING & TREATMENT CENTER$575,000
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC$175,000
LIBERTY YOUTH RANCH LLC$140,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC$56,000
PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS$56,000
GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION JOHNNY BENCH FUND$15,000
COPPER CANNON CAMP$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $6.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC: $105k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC: $80k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC: $75k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC: $56k → 9%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $187k → 11%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $179k → 11%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $175k → 11%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $156k → 11%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $150k → 11%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $130k → 11%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $127k → 11%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $127k → 11%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $116k → 11%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SW FLORIDA: $600k → 11%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SW FLORIDA: $595k → 11%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SW FLORIDA: $589k → 11%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SW FLORIDA: $575k → 11%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SW FLORIDA: $510k → 11%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SW FLORIDA: $440k → 11%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SW FLORIDA: $425k → 11%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SW FLORIDA: $405k → 11%CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SW FL: $325k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 8 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$12M
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+25%

Still filing today

88%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentCrime & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AC
    ABUSE COUNSELING & TREATMENT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +50%
  • CA
    CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +108%
  • BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • LK
    Lauren's Kids Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +25%
  • TB
    TRE BOSTON BEYOND BELIEF FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Children's Trust of South Carolina

To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Human Services
2
Center for Child Counseling Inc

Center for child counseling is building the foundation for playful, healthful, and hopeful living for children, families, and communities.

Education
3
Child Enrichment Inc

To provide and coordinate comprehensive intervention, stabilization, & advocacy & prevention in the best interests of abused, neglected & sexually abused children.

Crime & Legal
4
Children's Advocacy Centers of Kentucky Inc

Children's advocacy centers of kentucky, inc. seeks to build relationships at the state and national levels by collaborating with partners which will benefit the work of kentucky child advocacy centers.

Crime & Legal
5
The Child Advocacy Center Inc

Our mission is to support child abuse investigations, provide access to critical services, and raise community awareness to prevent and reduce child abuse and neglect in southern missouri. see conintuation on schedule o.we envision a…

Crime & Legal
6
Children's Advocacy Center Nepa

The children's advocacy center of northeastern pennsylvania is a private, non-profit, charitable organization whose mission is to provide excellence in the assessment and treatment of child abuse and neglect.

Crime & Legal
7
Memphis Child Advocacy Center

The mission is to serve children who are victims of sexual and severe physical abuse through prevention, education, and intervention.

Crime & Legal
8
Child Protection Center Inc

The mission of the child protection center, inc. is the prevention, intervention and treatment of child abuse. we envision a community where children are safe from abuse and free to thrive. to successfully address the issue of child abuse,…

Crime & Legal
9
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…

Crime & Legal
10
The Child Advocacy Center of Greater Rochester

The child advocacy center of greater rochester delivers excellence in child abuse response, healing and prevention through collaborative service, awareness, education and leadership.

Crime & Legal
11
Child Protection Center Inc

To provide forensic interviewsof children alleged to have been abused and to provide support,education, and mental health services to their caretakers.

Crime & Legal
12
Childrens Center

The mission of childrens center is to support and medically assess children who are suspected victims of abuse or neglect.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pace Center for Girlsinc; the most unlike its peers is Children's Advocacy Center of Southwest Florida Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $4,464,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INCBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $1,346,500 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC: $316,000 · Human ServicesABUSE COUNSELING & TREATMENT INC: $4,464,000 · HealthABUSE COUNSELING & TREATMENT INCLIBERTY YOUTH RANCH LLC: $1,135,000 · OtherLIBERTY YO…CINCINNATI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Other+1 more: $9,500 · OtherPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $326,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $85,000 · PhilanthropyCOPPER CANNON CORPORATION: $77,000 · Recreation & SportsLauren's Kids Inc: $15,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$6,126,500Health$4,464,000Other$1,189,500Youth Development$326,000Philanthropy$85,000Recreation & Sports$77,000Crime & Legal$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee 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 budgetTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 6y, 0.0% 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
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 ABUSE COUNSELING & TREATMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
  • Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COPPER CANNON CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Lauren's Kids 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bobby Nichols - Fiddlesticks Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bobby Nichols - Fiddlesticks Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
  • Lauren's Kids Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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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