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Nicholas Family Foundation Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$9.8MEnvironment$4.6MArts & Culture$2.7MEducation$2.2MHuman Services$1.9MAnimals$1.6MYouth Development$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.1MOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $555k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION$500,000
CHILDREN'S WI FOUNDATION$400,000
WILLIAMS HEART FOUNDATION$350,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE$325,000
HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE$200,000
CHURCH OF THE ATONEMENT$150,000
PREVENT BLINDNESS WISCONSIN$100,000
THE SAMARITAN FAMILY WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC$100,000
PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART & GALLERY$100,000
UW FOUNDATION - GUARDING AGAINST CANCER$100,000
WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY$95,000
LAD LAKEST ROSE CENTER$75,000
MACC FUND$75,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER MILW CHAPTER$75,000
ALS ASSOCIATION SE WI CHAPTER$75,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE WOMEN'S CENTER: $20k → 5%BALANCE INC: $25k → 6%THE WOMEN'S CENTER: $15k → 5%BALANCE INC: $25k → 6%THE WOMEN'S CENTER: $15k → 5%BALANCE INC: $20k → 6%THE WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 5%BALANCE INC: $15k → 6%THE WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 5%BALANCE INC: $10k → 6%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%BRIDGE TO BRIGHTER: $25k → 5%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%BRIDGE TO BRIGHTER: $10k → 5%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $15k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $15k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $15k → 17%ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $25k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $10k → 17%ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $25k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $10k → 17%ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $20k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 17%WALKER'S POINT YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER INC: $15k → 17%WALKER'S POINT YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER INC: $15k → 17%WALKER'S POINT YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER INC: $15k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 17%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE: $50k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $35k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $35k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $35k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $30k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $25k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $25k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $25k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $25k → 17%PAVE: $15k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$26M · 93 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

93 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

93
20

Total granted

$26M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
0%

Still filing today

71%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • RP
    ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +55% · 31% of their budget
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +128%
  • HH
    Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $800k · revenue +301%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPOITAL OF WI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $400k
  • MC
    MEDICAL COLLEGE OF MILWAUKEE
    one grant, 2018 · $333k
  • ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -30%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
2
Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education
3
Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

—
4
The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc

To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…

Housing & Shelter
5
The University School of Milwaukee Corporation

University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…

Education
6
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.

Community Improvement
7
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

—
8
My Choice Wisconsin Inc

We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.

Health
9
Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin Inc

Provide a unified voice, resources, and leadership to advance the pharmacy profession and improve the quality of medication use in wisconsin.

—
10
Radio Milwaukee Inc

To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…

Arts & Culture
11
Wisconsin School Counselor Association Inc

Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.

—
12
Burnett Medical Center Inc

The mission of burnett medical center is to provide compassionate, comprehensive, community healthcare that exceeds our customer's expectations. our mission, as well as our vision and values, serves as a guideline for daily decision making…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Samaritan Family Wellness Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%4%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr15%25%35–55yr19%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%5%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr18%13%20–35yr15%45%35–55yr19%28%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/81
the rest of the field
11%
1,015/9,277

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 120 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/79
Grantees still filing
48/79
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MACC FUND — $1,681,000 · OtherMACC FUNDPrevent Blindness Wisconsin — $705,000 · OtherPrevent Blindness WisconsinLAD LAKEST ROSE CENTER — $675,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER MILW CHAPTER — $640,000 · OtherUW FOUNDATION - GUARDING AGAINST CANCER — $575,000 · OtherRAWHIDE INC — $550,000 · OtherNATIVITY JESUIT ACADEMY INC — $450,000 · Other+66 more — $7,597,133 · Other+66 moreROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $4,500,000 · EnvironmentROCKFORD PARK DIST…+1 more — $40,000 · EnvironmentCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $1,650,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPI…THE SAMARITAN FAMILY WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC — $657,800 · HealthTHE SAMARITAN FA…Kathy's House Inc — $500,001 · HealthKathy's House In…WILLIAMS HEART FOUNDATION — $350,000 · HealthWILLIAMS HEART F…VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $250,000 · HealthVISION FORWARD A…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC — $165,000 · HealthVERSITI WISCONSIN INC — $150,000 · HealthROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · Health+4 more — $225,000 · Health+4 moreHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc — $800,000 · Arts & CultureHistoric H…MADISON AREA MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC — $450,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON AR…MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC — $375,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE …FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE — $275,000 · Arts & CultureFIRST STAG…MILWAUKEE FILM INC — $145,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE …PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC — $130,000 · Arts & CulturePENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 · Arts & CultureBIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCE CENTER INC — $125,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $125,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $666,666 · EducationST COLETTA DAY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE — $165,000 · EducationTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $105,000 · EducationDISCOVERY WORLD LTD — $85,000 · EducationMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC — $70,000 · EducationLITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC — $65,000 · EducationDoor County YMCA INC — $60,000 · EducationMEQUON-THIENSVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Education+2 more — $55,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $1,100,000 · PhilanthropyASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · PhilanthropyLITTLE WARRIOR FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $35,000 · PhilanthropyWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $515,000 · AnimalsDOVE PROJECT — $150,000 · AnimalsThe Labelle Foundation Inc — $150,000 · AnimalsWags and Walks — $100,000 · AnimalsTHE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC — $100,000 · AnimalsELMBROOK HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $90,000 · AnimalsNORTHWEST DOG PROJECT — $75,000 · AnimalsOSHKOSH AREA HUMANE SOCIETY — $75,000 · Animals
Other$12,873,133Environment$4,540,000Health$4,097,801Arts & Culture$2,550,000Education$1,461,666Philanthropy$1,330,000Animals$1,255,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $4,500,000 over 9y, 31% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $1,650,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $1,100,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc — $800,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPrevent Blindness Wisconsin — $705,000 over 9y, 10% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $666,666 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAMARITAN FAMILY WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC — $657,800 over 5y, 14% of budgetRAWHIDE INC — $550,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $515,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetKathy's House Inc — $500,001 over 3y, 13% of budgetMADISON AREA MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC — $450,000 over 9y, 55% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $375,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC — $375,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetWILLIAMS HEART FOUNDATION — $350,000 over 1y, 85% of budgetFIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE — $275,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE COUNTY — $270,000 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $250,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC — $235,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $230,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPENINSULA GOLF ASSOCIATES INC — $225,000 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetOUR NEXT GENERATION INC — $225,000 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetST COLETTA DAY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE — $165,000 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC — $165,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetVERSITI WISCONSIN INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDOVE PROJECT — $150,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetThe Labelle Foundation Inc — $150,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetMILWAUKEE FILM INC — $145,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC — $130,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetPENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetBIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCE CENTER INC — $125,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWags and Walks — $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC — $100,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetBalance Inc — $95,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetELMBROOK HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $90,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWAUNAKEE HOOPS CLUB INC — $90,000 over 6y, 38% of budgetDISCOVERY WORLD LTD — $85,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $75,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST DOG PROJECT — $75,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetOSHKOSH AREA HUMANE SOCIETY — $75,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $70,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE — $70,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $65,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
  • Who funds Prevent Blindness Wisconsin ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SAMARITAN FAMILY WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RAWHIDE INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Kathy's House Inc ↗
  • Who funds MADISON AREA MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMS HEART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PENINSULA GOLF ASSOCIATES INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR NEXT GENERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST COLETTA DAY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Herbert H Kohl Charit…United Way of Greater…Greater Milwaukee Fou…Green Bay Packers Fou…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Milwaukee Jewish Fede…Gardner FoundationBaird Foundation IncAnon Charitable TrustCedar Street Charitab…
Herbert H Kohl Charities IncWI60.6× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Nicholas Family Foundation Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Nicholas Family Foundation Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Nicholas Family Foundation Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 120 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

    Source object · view filing

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