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· Private foundation

Frank S Nicoll Jr and Joanne M Nicoll Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Recreation & Sports$1.1MAnimals$85kInternational$45kHuman Services$45kHousing & Shelter$35kScience & Tech$35kPhilanthropy$33kHealth$30kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,096,564
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES$1,096,564
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS OF AMERICA: $5k → 8%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $5k → 9%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS OF AMERICA: $5k → 8%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $5k → 9%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $5k → 9%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
NC
GA
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$309k · 19 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
6

Total granted

$309k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+17%

Still filing today

79%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHealthPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CC
    CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $25k · revenue +36%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $20k · revenue +32%
  • 4P
    4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $20k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • SMILE TRAIN INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +18%
  • NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +17%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
2
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy
3
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
4
Packages From Home

To send care and comfort packages to deployed american military heroes who are stationed in active duty theaters around the world, as well as to facilitate activities that elevate morale of all veterans

Philanthropy
5
Hero Dogs Inc

Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.

Human Services
6
Companions for Heroes

To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.

Human Services
7
Uso Foundation

The mission of the uso foundation (foundation) is to support uso inc.'s (uso) mission to strengthen the well-being of the people serving in america's military and their families.

8
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
9
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation

The mission of the stephen siller tunnel to towers foundation is to honor the sacrifice of fdny firefighter stephen siller, and all those who laid down their lives to save others on september 11, 2001. we also honor our military, and first…

Education
10
Pets for Vets Inc

Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…

Public Benefit
11
Troops First Foundation Incorporated

To develop, operate, and support a synergistic group of wellness, quality of life, and event-based initiatives in support of today's combat-wounded military personnel and their families, while facilitating a greater recognition and…

Public Benefit
12
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soldiers' Angels and the most unlike its peers is Last Chance for Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%50%20–35yr11%40%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr19%84%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr11%7%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
14%
5,903/41,827

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ATHLETES SERVING ATHLETES — $1,096,564 · Recreation & SportsATHLETES SERVING ATHLETESS SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUND — $35,000 · OtherS SILLER TUNNEL…DAV CHARITABLE SERVICE TRUST — $30,000 · OtherDAV CHARITABLE …ST JOSEPH ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH — $21,000 · OtherST JOSEPH ROMAN…FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FO…BALTIMORE COUNTY POLICE DEPT — $12,500 · OtherBALTIMORE COUNT…Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc — $10,000 · OtherANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $10,000 · OtherHope For The Warriors — $10,000 · OtherSOLDIERS' ANGELS — $10,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $10,000 · Other+6 more — $25,000 · Other+6 moreCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $25,000 · Human Services4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesWORLD VISION INC — $25,200 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $10,000 · InternationalBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterLast Chance for Animals — $20,000 · AnimalsOperation Second Chance Inc — $10,000 · Public BenefitOPERATION GRATITUDE INC — $10,000 · Public Benefit
Recreation & Sports$1,096,564Other$193,500Human Services$55,000International$35,200Housing & Shelter$35,000Animals$20,000Public Benefit$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORLD VISION INC — $25,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLast Chance for Animals — $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION GRATITUDE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHope For The Warriors — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSadie Keller Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCARROLL COUNTY FOOD SUNDAY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC12.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Ge Foundation · Verizon Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Frank S Nicoll Jr and Joanne M Nicoll Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get 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 · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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