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Jean Nichols Charitable Trust Charles Nichols II Trustee

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$48k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$13,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$753k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Jean Nichols Charitable Trust Charles Nichols II Trustee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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 arriving17$48k24%
FY202412$40k8%
FY202314$40k21%
FY202212$40k17%
FY202114$37k29%
FY202012$36k50%
FY201910$28k80%
FY20188$40k88%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$80kFood & Nutrition$79kHuman Services$62kArts & Culture$34kHealth$29kCommunity Improvement$12kYouth Development$8kAnimals$4kOther$0

Top grantees

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

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($66k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jean Nichols Charitable Trust Charles Nichols II Trustee supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDuffy Health Center Inc: $63,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSalem Pantry Inc: $61,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFlance Management Inc D/B/A Flance Early Learning Center: $37,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCape Abilities Inc: $15,831 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLaumeier Sculpture Park: $14,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLower Cape Cod Community Develop- Ment Corporation: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSt Louis Shakespeare Festival: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHomes for Our Troops Inc: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKingdom House D/B/A Lifewise Stl: $7,331 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLend a Hand Society: $6,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetChase Rauchle Ptsd Now: $6,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $5,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGoodnow Library Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBig Sister Association of Greater Boston Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fred Rittner Pemi Campership Fund: $2,750 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMuseum of Science: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA Rottweiler Empire Rescue Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBuddy Dog Humane Society Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAccessportsamerica Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAssociation for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family & Children's Service Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAgape International Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRetrieving Freedom Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Baroque Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 25.

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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.

Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation IncMA15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Washington University · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Verizon 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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About Jean Nichols Charitable Trust Charles Nichols II Trustee

How much does Jean Nichols Charitable Trust Charles Nichols II Trustee give?
Jean Nichols Charitable Trust Charles Nichols II Trustee reported 17 grants totaling $47,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Jean Nichols Charitable Trust Charles Nichols II Trustee fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (23%), Food & Nutrition (23%), Human Services (18%).
Who are Jean Nichols Charitable Trust Charles Nichols II Trustee's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Duffy Health Center Inc ($64k), Salem Pantry Inc ($61k), Flance Management Inc D/B/A Flance Early Learning Center ($38k).
Does Jean Nichols Charitable Trust Charles Nichols II Trustee fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jean Nichols Charitable Trust Charles Nichols II Trustee accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jean Nichols Charitable Trust Charles Nichols II Trustee?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc, Brown Dana Charitable Trust, Trio Foundation of St Louis.
Where is Jean Nichols Charitable Trust Charles Nichols II Trustee based?
Jean Nichols Charitable Trust Charles Nichols II Trustee is based in MA.

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 42 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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