· Private foundation
Nicholas G & Sandra K Nicholas Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLY CROSS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $50,000 |
| SHADYSIDE ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| HOLY CROSS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $10,000 |
| PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE | $7,500 |
| THE BLESSING BOARD | $5,000 |
| PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE | $5,000 |
| PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST | $3,000 |
| HOLY CROSS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $1,000 |
| CHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY19–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PBPITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $117k · revenue +46%
- PCPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST3× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +174%
- USUNITY SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND INC2× · 2019–2022 · $450 · revenue +38%
Funded once
- SASkylar and Mareniak Education Fundone grant, 2018 · $10k
- HIHELLENIC INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +1%
- NCNantucket Cottage Hospitalone grant, 2018 · $4k
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
To create a transformative educational experience for students focused on deep disciplinary knowledge; problem solving; leadership, communication and interpersonal skills; and personal health and well-being. to cultivate a transformative…
Pittsburgh festival opera presents innovative opera for imaginative audiences. pittsburgh festival opera is pittsburgh's modern music drama company and, as such, focuses on creating new works, on reinterpreting older works in new ways, on…
Tourism development organization dedicated to expanding the tourism economy across allegheny county.
To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.
An independent college preparatory school for girls from age three through twelfth grade.
Established in 1945, the pittsburgh foundation is one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the united states. see additional information in schedule o
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 22 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 PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SHADY SIDE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BLESSING BOARD ↗
- Who funds HELLENIC INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLES WINGS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DRESSAGE AT DEVON ↗
- Who funds YAHVE-JIRE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION-US ↗
- Who funds CHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN INJURY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds UNITY SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
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 Pittsburgh Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nicholas G & Sandra K Nicholas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nicholas G & Sandra K Nicholas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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