· Private foundation
Nichols Family Foundation Inc
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $7,500 |
| RACKLIFFE HOUSE TRUST | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $100 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 60% of your 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.
6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- LHLUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +23%
- AGATLANTIC GENERAL HOSPITAL3× · 2019–2023 · $6k · revenue +40%
- CHCOASTAL HOSPICE2× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- SUSALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +89%
- LSLOWER SHORE LAND TRUST INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +254%
- TFTIDALHEALTH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +145%
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.
University of maryland shore regional health, inc. (umsrh), a member of the umms system, offers state-of-the art health care to the residents of kent and queen anne's counties and portions of caroline and cecil counties.
Calverthealth medical center provides quality inpatient and ambulatory health care to the people of southern maryland that is accessible, cost-effective and compassionate. chmc works in partnership with the community to improve the health…
To assist in the management of and to provide services to related healthcare affiliates.
Chester river hospital center (crhc) is an acute care hospital that serves the residents of kent and queen anne's counties and portions of caroline and cecil counties
Tidalhealth physician network's mission is to provide quality medical care.effective 9/1/20, tidalhealth physician network, inc. is a subsidiary of tidalhealth medical partners, inc. (thmp). thmp's revenue and expenses are reported on its…
Dedication to maintaining and improving the health of the people in its communities through an integrated health delivery system that provides high quality care to all.
Chester river health foundation's (crhf) mission is to raise funds that steward and enhance healthcare excellence for the people who live in or visit the communities served by chester river hospital center, inc. (dba um shore medical…
To provide physician services to patients of the university of maryland upper chesapeake health system.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Memorial hospital foundation (mhf) through its philanthropic efforts supports shore medical center at easton to be a healing influence in our community, to help improve the health status and create easy access in a cost effective quality…
See schedule o medstar franklin square medical center, a member of medstar health, provides the highest quality healthcare and education to our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tidalhealth Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 26 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 SALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER SHORE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds TIDALHEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds COASTAL HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds SEVERN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CITY REEF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF HARFORD COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE WILDLIFE HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CITY MUSEUM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RACKLIFFE HOUSE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Joan W Jenkins Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Wilde Charitable Foundation · Humphreys Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Northrop Grumman Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Nichols Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Maryland School for the Blind — 47% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Salisbury University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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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