· Private foundation
Harriet H Nicol Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRYN MAWR COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| THE CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| THE MADEIRA SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| THE WINSOR SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| FOUNTAIN HOUSE | $10,000 |
| SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES | $10,000 |
| SAINT IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $5,000 |
| THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR SCOTLAND | $5,000 |
| EPISCOPAL CHARITIES OF NEW YORK | $5,000 |
| EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| WNET (THIRTEEN) | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BMBRYN MAWR COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $265k · revenue +34%
The Madeira School6× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +226%
THE WINSOR SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $195k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- SIST IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCHone grant, 2021 · $20k
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +1%- PPPLANNED PARENTHOODone grant, 2022 · $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.
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 educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 20 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 BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds THE WINSOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA 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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harriet H Nicol Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harriet H Nicol Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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