Virginia · Private foundation
Nicholson Aaaa Charitable 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.
- $74k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $59k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Nicholson Aaaa Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 15 | $74k | 47% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $66k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $53k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $52k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $51k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $55k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Union Mission | $68,852 | 6 | 0% |
| Virginia Opera Association Inc | $59,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Virginia Stage Company | $50,676 | 6 | 0% |
| Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia | $38,404 | 6 | 0% |
| The Virginia Arts Festival Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Forkids Inc | $18,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Roads to Recovery Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Connors Heroes Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Hermitage Museum and Gardens | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Access Virginia | $2,000 | 1 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Union Mission | $68,852 | 6 | 0% |
| Virginia Opera Association Inc | $59,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Virginia Stage Company | $50,676 | 6 | 0% |
| Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia | $38,404 | 6 | 0% |
| The Virginia Arts Festival Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Forkids Inc | $18,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Roads to Recovery Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Connors Heroes Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Hermitage Museum and Gardens | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Access Virginia | $2,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Operation Smile Inc | $1,010 | 1 | 0% |
| Petersburg Symphony Orchestra Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Outreach Coalition | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Come as You Are Cville | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters | $775 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($62k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nicholson Aaaa Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Sentara Health · Patricia and Douglas Perry Foundation DBA The Perry Family Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
Compare Nicholson Aaaa Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Nicholson Aaaa Charitable Foundation
- How much does Nicholson Aaaa Charitable Foundation give?
- Nicholson Aaaa Charitable Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $74,392 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Nicholson Aaaa Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Housing & Shelter (25%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are Nicholson Aaaa Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Union Mission ($69k), Virginia Opera Association Inc ($60k), Virginia Stage Company ($51k).
- Does Nicholson Aaaa Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nicholson Aaaa Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nicholson Aaaa Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hampton Roads Community Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Townebank Foundation.
- Where is Nicholson Aaaa Charitable Foundation based?
- Nicholson Aaaa Charitable Foundation is based in VA.
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