· Private foundation
Jess and Barbara Nicks Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKE A WISH | $3,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $3,000 |
| TEEN LIFELINE | $3,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKIN | $3,000 |
| ST MARY'S FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $3,000 |
| PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA | $3,000 |
| PHOENIX RESCUE MISSION | $3,000 |
| FIBCO FAMILY SERVICES | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $37k) 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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +90%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +145%- TLTeen Lifeline Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- UCUKRAINE CHILDREN'S ACTION PROJECT-one grant, 2022 · $3k
TREVOR PROJECT INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +2%
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.
Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…
To advance hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and their families.
To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.
The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.
By leveraging innovative technology and research, we are shaping mental health policy and systems to create a world where everyone has access to the support they need anytime, anywhere.
Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.
Our mission is to reach in and mine the incredible potential we believe lies within the lives of at-risk youth, the homeless, and needy families of our community by restoring hope and allowing them to dream again.
To be the trusted leader in improving lives and communities through human connection and innovation
Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.
JJPI is a specialized organization that provides prevention and treatment services in the areas of sexual and interpersonal violence, post-traumatic stress disorder and other forms of trauma, infant and early childhood mental health, and…
Codac provides tools, support and services to individuals, families, and communities so they may live with dignity, free from the harmful effects of mental illness, substance use disorders and trauma.
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Teen Lifeline Inc ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CHAPTER PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FIBCO FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jess and Barbara Nicks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jess and Barbara Nicks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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