· Private foundation
Nelson & Vera Hicks Charitable Fdn
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF DODGE COUNTY | $26,000 |
| ST AMBROSE ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| CHURCH HEALTH SERVICES | $15,000 |
| BEAVER DAM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| GREEN VALLEY ENTERPRISES & ALZHEIMER UNIT | $12,000 |
| MORAINE PARK TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $12,000 |
| MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $12,000 |
| WORLD ORPHAN FUND | $10,000 |
| CHARISH CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| RAWHIDE BOYS RANCH | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL BEAVER DAM | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF DANE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| PEDIATRICS ONCOLOGY RESEARCH FUND | $5,000 |
| GATHERING SOURCE | $5,000 |
| LOMIRA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
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, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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.
55 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
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
- SASAINT AMBROSE ACADEMY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +40%
- CHCHURCH HEALTH SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +65%
- BDBEAVER DAM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- SMST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $8k
- ROREACH OUT AND READ - CHILDREN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE WIone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
The mission of help of door county, inc. is to eliminate domestic abuse through prevention and intervention services and to advocate for social change.
Tall oaks academy seeks to partner with christian parents to raise up children in the nurture and admonition of the lord and to set them free from the enslavements of fallen humanity, by god's grace. the three pillars of freedom that we…
Child evangelism fellowship is an evangelical, bible-centered mission whose purpose is to evangelize boys and girls with the gospel of the lord jesus christ and to establish (disciple) them in the word of god and in a local church for…
Valley christian school pursues educational excellence through christ centered programs to produce servant leaders.
A door of hope pregnancy center is a christ-centered organization that empowers people to make life-affirming and healthy decisions, particularly about sex, pregnancy and relationships.
Operation of three charter school districts located at twelve sites in the tulsa and oklahoma city areas
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
Bringing souls face to face with the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Christ and forming missionaries of the New Evangelization. The organization has realized this mission by providing music and production services for worship events.
Humane society providing animal stray service and animal care including adoptions, redemptions, and surrenders for residents located in dodge county, wi and surrounding areas.
Our lady of hope clinic is a direct primary care clinic that gives at least 55% of its services to the uninsured at no cost, consistent with the catholic health care tradition.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 57 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 SAINT AMBROSE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BEAVER DAM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAWHIDE INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT IN ↗
- Who funds The World Orphan Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WISCONSIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARIS CLASSICAL ACADEMY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF DODGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Gathering Source Inc ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER OF DODGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Arts for All Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nelson & Vera Hicks Charitable Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nelson & Vera Hicks Charitable Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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