Wisconsin · Private foundation
Nicholas Family Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 60
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $52M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Nicholas Family Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $510k 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 | 51 | $3.9M | 14% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $3.4M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $3.4M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $3.4M | 6% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $3.0M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 57 | $3.0M | 7% |
| FY2019 | 56 | $2.7M | 11% |
| FY2018 | 58 | $2.8M | 7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockford Park District Foundation | $4,500,000 | 9 | 31% |
| Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Foundation Inc | $1,650,000 | 7 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc | $1,100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc | $800,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Prevent Blindness Wisconsin | $705,000 | 9 | 10% |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | $666,666 | 2 | 0% |
| The Samaritan Family Wellness Foundation Inc | $657,800 | 5 | 14% |
| Rawhide Inc | $550,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wisconsin Humane Society | $515,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Kathy's House Inc | $500,001 | 3 | 13% |
Show all 81 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Nicholas Family Foundation Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 76 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Nicholas Family Foundation Trust
- How much does Nicholas Family Foundation Trust give?
- Nicholas Family Foundation Trust reported 51 grants totaling $3,880,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 60 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Nicholas Family Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (35%), Environment (17%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Nicholas Family Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rockford Park District Foundation ($4.5M), Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Foundation Inc ($1.6M), United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc ($1.1M).
- Does Nicholas Family Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nicholas Family Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nicholas Family Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc.
- Where is Nicholas Family Foundation Trust based?
- Nicholas Family Foundation Trust is based in WI.
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