Texas · Private foundation
Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $155k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $155k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $160k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $155k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $145k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $144k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $110k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $137k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $142k | 58% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copley Hospital Inc | $305,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hunger Free Vermont Inc | $92,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Committee on Temporary Shelter Inc | $67,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Vermont Works for Women Inc | $58,000 | 7 | 1% |
| AWARE Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 4% |
| River Arts of Morrisville Inc | $47,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc | $47,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Steps to End Domestic Violence Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Central Vermont Adult Basic Education Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Salvation Farms Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($220k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Vermont Community Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · George W Mergens Foundation · Richard E and Deborah L Tarrant Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc · Mascoma Bank Foundation · The Wisdom Connection Inc
How this is measured
About Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund
- How much does Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund give?
- Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund reported 21 grants totaling $155,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Copley Hospital Inc ($305k), Hunger Free Vermont Inc ($92k), Committee on Temporary Shelter Inc ($68k).
- Does Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc.
- Where is Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund based?
- Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund is based in TX.
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