· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN | $3,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nicholson Aaaa Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nicholson Aaaa Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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