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Niccum Educational Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$22k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
6%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$425k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Niccum Educational Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$21k20%
FY202418$23k6%
FY202318$26k11%
FY202218$28k22%
FY202118$27k22%
FY202014$24k7%
FY201916$26k31%
FY201815$27kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$194kHealth$10kReligion$2kRecreation & Sports$500Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IN
OH
TN
NC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Indiana University School of Medicine$39,2508n/a
Grace Schools$18,25070%
Indiana Wesleyan University$18,00070%
Trustees of Purdue University$17,5007n/a
Huntington University$13,50070%
Trine University$12,25070%
Bethel University Inc$8,32270%
Butler University$6,50070%
Manchester University Inc$5,00040%
Goshen College Inc$4,00050%
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All grantees of Niccum Educational Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Indiana University School of Medicine$39,2508n/a
Grace Schools$18,25070%
Indiana Wesleyan University$18,00070%
Trustees of Purdue University$17,5007n/a
Huntington University$13,50070%
Trine University$12,25070%
Bethel University Inc$8,32270%
Butler University$6,50070%
Manchester University Inc$5,00040%
Goshen College Inc$4,00050%
Lees-McRae College Inc$3,00010%
Olivet Nazarene University$2,75030%
University of Indianapolis$2,50020%
The College of Wooster$2,00040%
Grand Valley State University$2,0004n/a
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame$2,00040%
Northpoint Bible College$1,50030%
Trinity University$1,50020%
Cornerstone University$1,50020%
Trevecca Nazarene University$1,50030%
DePauw University$1,00010%
Marian University$1,00010%
Holy Cross College Inc$50010%
Houghton University$50010%
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($34k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Niccum Educational Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGrace Schools: $18,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana Wesleyan University: $18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHuntington University: $13,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTrine University: $12,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBethel University Inc: $8,322 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetButler University: $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetManchester University Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGoshen College Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLees-McRae College Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOlivet Nazarene University: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Indianapolis: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe College of Wooster: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthpoint Bible College: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity University: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornerstone University: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrevecca Nazarene University: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDePauw University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarian University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHoly Cross College Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHoughton University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

Lilly Endowment IncIN21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jp Crain Family Scholarship Pfdn Paulding County Area Foundation · Lake City Bank Foundation Inc · Michigan Gateway Community Foundation · Steuben County Community Foundation · Surack Family Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Niccum Educational Trust

How much does Niccum Educational Trust give?
Niccum Educational Trust reported 16 grants totaling $22,072 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Niccum Educational Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (94%), Health (5%), Religion (1%).
Who are Niccum Educational Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Indiana University School of Medicine ($39k), Grace Schools ($18k), Indiana Wesleyan University ($18k).
Does Niccum Educational Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Niccum Educational Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Niccum Educational Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, Ibm International Foundation, Council of Independent Colleges.
Where is Niccum Educational Trust based?
Niccum Educational Trust is based in IN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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