· Private foundation
Nichols Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $337k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Middle Park Health Foundation | $100,000 |
| Hands of a Carpenter | $100,000 |
| Capital City Opera | $47,500 |
| Central Baptist Church | $45,000 |
| Medicine Lodge Indian Peace Treaty Assoc | $42,582 |
| Kansas Grazing Lands Coalition | $35,000 |
| Fishing's Future | $32,000 |
| City of Great Bend | $25,000 |
| The John G Shedd Institute for the Arts | $25,000 |
| Center for Hearing Access | $25,000 |
| Friends of Animal Rescue | $20,000 |
| Prescribed Burn Associations | $10,000 |
| Golden Belt Trail Assoc | $10,000 |
| Wilson Tourism Hub | $10,000 |
| Red Dirt Relief Fund | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +116% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $501k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FOFriends of the RGV Reef3× · 2019–2023 · $260k
- CBCENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH5× · 2019–2024 · $225k
- CCCentral City Opera4× · 2019–2023 · $208k
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY REEF INCone grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue -11% · 35% of their budget
- DFDOC'S FRIENDS INCone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -39%
- FOFriends of Animal Rescueone grant, 2020 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Engage in educational, scientific, and governmental efforts to conserve, develop, and improve the use of land, soil, water, plants, animals, and other natural resources within the state of kansas
Find homes for homeless cats through adoptions
Pawsitive tails in a not-for-profit organization focused on finding permanent homes for dogs and puppies in the kansas city and topeka areas.
Our mission is to raise awareness through community education programs of animal overpopulation, disease control, and provide resources for veterinary services in order to help abandoned and neglected animals in kansas city and it's…
To provide preventive spay and neutering to local animals in southeast kansas area
The Gunnison Arts Center creates community through the arts by providing accessible and inclusive programs, events, and educational experiences that foster creativity, support local artists, and enrich lives.
To Provide a safe place for animals and unite them with permanent homes
The mission of KS SART is to raise public awareness of the need to plan for animals in disasters, support the development, training and exercise of animal disaster responders throughout the state, and develop statewide animal emergency…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Doc's Friends Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Rio Grande Valley Reef Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 38 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 FRIENDS OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY REEF INC ↗
- Who funds SparkHope Automotive ↗
- Who funds DOC'S FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO BALLET ↗
- Who funds Curing Kids Cancer Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDICINE LODGE INDIAN PEACE TREATY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS GRAZING LANDS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Fishing's Future ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN G SHEDD INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Golden Belt Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds RED DIRT RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WILSON TOURISM HUB INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS WITH PAWS ↗
- Who funds DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Nichols Charitable Foundation 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.
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.
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