· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRGINIA OPERA | $16,000 |
| UNION MISSION | $13,600 |
| VIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY | $10,000 |
| CASA | $10,000 |
| ROADS TO RECOVERY | $6,000 |
| VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA | $3,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN | $3,000 |
| STAND UP FOR KIDS | $2,000 |
| ACCESS VIRGINIA | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HAMPTON | $1,000 |
| HILLTOP FAMILY YMCA | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF THE KING'S | $775 |
| Individual grant recipient | $517 |
| NORFOLK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $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 (FY20–25, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TUTHE UNION MISSION6× · 2020–2025 · $69k · revenue +26%
- FOFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +67%
- TVTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +293%
Funded once
- CHCONNORS HEROES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
- OSOPERATION SMILE INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
- NPNORFOLK POLICE FOP 3one grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
Driven by its core values of artistic excellence and inclusion, the virginia symphony orchestra is dedicated to creating world-class symphonic performances, transformative music education, and purposeful community engagement throughout…
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
Choral Performances in the Tidewater Area
Virginia repertory theatre is a nonprofit professional theater based in richmond, virginia. virginia rep's mission is to entertain, challenge, and uplift our communities through the power of live theatre.
To produce high quality opera and musicals at affordable prices; to provide training opportunities and experience for young artists and interns; to provide educational nourishment for all sectors of the community; and to enrich the…
We produce vital works of classical and contemporary theatre, with Shakespeare as our foundation. We approach this work boldly with a resolve to ignite spirits, educate minds and defy expectation.
Opera production, appreciation and outreach
The orchestra's mission is to perform fine music with highest artistic integrity for the broadest possible audience.
Vcca's mission is to provide time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity…
Virginia regional transit's mission is to create access to mobility through direct passenger service, transit system management and transit related services for the public.
Provide professional training to young musicians.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Stage Company and the most unlike its peers is Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 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 THE UNION MISSION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ROADS TO RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds CONNORS HEROES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HERMITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDENS ↗
- Who funds Access Virginia ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds Petersburg Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OUTREACH COALITION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
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: 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
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 Nicholson Aaaa 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.