Wisconsin · Private foundation
Nelson & Vera Hicks Charitable Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $259k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 48
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Nelson & Vera Hicks Charitable Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 42 | $259k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $261k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $240k | 2% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $259k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $281k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $298k | 2% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $245k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $232k | 2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Ambrose Academy Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Church Health Services Inc | $135,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Moraine Park Technical College | $106,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Beaver Dam Scholarship Foundation Inc | $100,500 | 9 | 5% |
| Rawhide Inc | $80,000 | 9 | 0% |
| People Against a Violent Environment In | $74,000 | 9 | 2% |
| The World Orphan Fund Inc | $55,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Central Wisconsin Christian Schools Inc | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Dodge County Center for the Arts Inc | $35,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Charis Classical Academy Incorporated | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 22 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nelson & Vera Hicks Charitable Fdn 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 Peter J Seippel Foundation Inc · Duane and Kathleen Foulkes Foundation Inc · United Way of Dodge County Inc · Keller Family Charitable Trust · Beaver Dam Community Hospitals Foundation Inc · The Jack and Arlene Schumann Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About Nelson & Vera Hicks Charitable Fdn
- How much does Nelson & Vera Hicks Charitable Fdn give?
- Nelson & Vera Hicks Charitable Fdn reported 42 grants totaling $259,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Nelson & Vera Hicks Charitable Fdn fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Health (14%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Nelson & Vera Hicks Charitable Fdn's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Saint Ambrose Academy Inc ($150k), Church Health Services Inc ($135k), Moraine Park Technical College ($106k).
- Does Nelson & Vera Hicks Charitable Fdn fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nelson & Vera Hicks Charitable Fdn accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nelson & Vera Hicks Charitable Fdn?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Peter J Seippel Foundation Inc, Duane and Kathleen Foulkes Foundation Inc, United Way of Dodge County Inc.
- Where is Nelson & Vera Hicks Charitable Fdn based?
- Nelson & Vera Hicks Charitable Fdn is based in WI.
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