· Private foundation
Nancy Nichols Olson 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| MARSH CEMETARY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| KEITH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CORANADO FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $2,000 |
| YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY | $2,000 |
| HOPE VILLAGE - TINY HOUSING ALTERNA | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ROCKFORD | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| RED SHED SCHOOL | $500 |
| ST PETER CATHOLIC CHURCH | $500 |
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, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KCKEITH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +41%
- RVROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +145%
ALPHA TAU OMEGA FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $9k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- TSTHE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF GREEK HOUSINGgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +43%
- BVBLACKHAWK VALLEY REGION BOY SCOUTSone grant, 2022 · $3k
- MCMARSH CEMETARY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
It is the mission of this corporation to provide quality care for children between the ages of six weeks and twelve years whose parents are employed or in training.
We create opportunity for those impacted by addiction and mental illness through innovative, compassionate, and life change care.
To educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and complemented and extended by professional and practical experience, through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…
Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.
To support housing and community development ventures
To challenge young people to know christ as lord, apply god's truth in all areas of life, love others sacrifically, and achieve the highest level of knowledge and skill in order to serve god and others
Rockhurst is a comprehensive university and a supportive community that forms lifelong learners in the catholic, jesuit, liberal arts tradition who engage with the complexities of our world and serve others as compassionate, thoughtful…
To receive and administer grants, gifts, donations and bequests in a manner designed to promote the activities of richfield living and ridgecrest at richfield.
Vision statement: enhance economic vitality in the rockford region by providing access to post-secondary education for all rockford public school graduates. - mission statement: remove financial barriers by offering full-tuition…
To provide analysis and commentary on cultural, economic, political, and educational issues through a published monthly opinion magazine and to operate continuing adult educational conferences in american and european literature and…
The mission of rock island economic growth corporation is to renovate and build new single family or multi-family housing in the midwest region; to foster low-income housing that: enhances the overall image and economic vitality of the…
The rockford area economic development council cultivates opportunities for primary job growth that increase the economic well-being of our region
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 50 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 KEITH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALPHA TAU OMEGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF GREEK HOUSING ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds HOPE VILLAGE - TINY HOUSING ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds MISS CARLY'S INC ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL ↗
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: Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern IL · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · John T Wolf Charitable Trust II · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation · Blazer Foundation · Ralph J Baudhuin Foundation · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Atwood Foundation · Jeff and Shelley Shinn Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nancy Nichols Olson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nancy Nichols Olson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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