Kansas · Private foundation
Nichols Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $850k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 90%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $439,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 90% of the organizations Nichols Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 91% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $850k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $551k | 90% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $191k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $150k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $196k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $318k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $416k | 89% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $163k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Baptist Church | $270,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Friends of the Rio Grande Valley Reef Inc | $125,000 | 1 | 35% |
| SparkHope Automotive | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Doc's Friends Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Great Bend Community Theatre Inc | $93,684 | 2 | n/a |
| Mountain Family Center | $85,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Colorado Ballet | $84,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Kansas Grazing Lands Coalition Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Friends of Animal Rescue | $70,600 | 2 | 4% |
| Curing Kids Cancer Inc | $65,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Baptist Church | $270,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Friends of the Rio Grande Valley Reef Inc | $125,000 | 1 | 35% |
| SparkHope Automotive | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Doc's Friends Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Great Bend Community Theatre Inc | $93,684 | 2 | n/a |
| Mountain Family Center | $85,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Colorado Ballet | $84,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Kansas Grazing Lands Coalition Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Friends of Animal Rescue | $70,600 | 2 | 4% |
| Curing Kids Cancer Inc | $65,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Alliance for Choice in Education | $57,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Medicine Lodge Indian Peace Treaty | $42,582 | 1 | 10% |
| Fishing's Future | $32,000 | 1 | 21% |
| The John G Shedd Institute for the Arts | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Central City Opera House Association | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Denver Center for the Performing Arts | $10,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Red Dirt Relief Fund Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Angels With Paws | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Wilson Tourism Hub Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Lovegrass Music Festival Assocation | $7,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Historic Denver Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Denver Cat Rescue | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Nichols Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Nichols Charitable Foundation
- How much does Nichols Charitable Foundation give?
- Nichols Charitable Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $849,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Nichols Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Environment (22%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Nichols Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Central Baptist Church ($270k), Friends of the Rio Grande Valley Reef Inc ($125k), SparkHope Automotive ($100k).
- Does Nichols Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 90% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nichols Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nichols Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Nichols Charitable Foundation based?
- Nichols Charitable Foundation is based in KS.
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