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Nichols Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FAMILY GATEWAY | $10,000 |
| LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR SHREVEPORT BLIGHT FUND | $5,000 |
| CHRISTUS HIGHLAND FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA | $500 |
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 (FY17–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +63% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- RFRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +128%
CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2023 · $50k · revenue +77%- HAHOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I3× · 2017–2019 · $13k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- SMST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELSone grant, 2020 · $10k
- HAHOLY ANGELSone grant, 2022 · $5k
- LPLOYOLA PARENTS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Rebuilding together new orleans helps low to moderate income greater new orleans area homeowners repair and rehabilitate their homes. rtno stabilizes and revitalizes neighborhoods and improves health and safety in our communities.
Shreveport green is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the city's environment and enhancing its economy through public education and community beautification, litter abatement, and recycling projects
Drive solutions to common issues with an emphasis on workforce development and safety performance.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.
To foster regional economic development and create quality jobs within the metropolitan new orleans area.
The mission of the organization (ccr) shall be to work with individuals, communities, courts, and other institutions to manage and resolve conflict.
The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
Rebuilding hope through housing opportunities for families and individuals with support services during transitions.
Providing standards, guidelines, and procedures to those members engaged in practice of the real estate profession
Hospitality industry trade association
The mission of CCRI is to enhance and enrich the lives and learning of people with disabilities. We help people overcome obstacles by offering unique community opportunities to children, adults, and families affected by disability. Our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Common Ground Community Inc and the most unlike its peers is Great Results Equine Assisted Therapies. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 24 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 RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GATEWAY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT METROPOLITAN BALLET ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT GARDEN STUDY CLUB ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT RESULTS EQUINE ASSISTED THERAPIES ↗
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: The Powers Foundation Inc · Grayson Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Louisiana · 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 Family 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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