· Private foundation
Nicholson 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $427k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| First Liberty | $90,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Houston's First Baptist Church | $32,015 |
| Summit Life Church | $28,000 |
| Summit Life Church | $28,000 |
| Mission Valley Church | $25,000 |
| Houston House of Hope | $20,000 |
| New Horizon Church | $20,000 |
| Jews for Jesus | $15,000 |
| Next Level Leadership | $14,500 |
| Next Level Leadership | $12,000 |
| Next Level Leadership | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Next Level Leadership | $12,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 11 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VOVINEYARD OUTREACH AMERICA3× · 2022–2024 · $397k
- FLFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE2× · 2023–2024 · $190k · revenue +21%
- UIUnited in Purpose2× · 2022–2023 · $105k · revenue -69%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $100k
- CCCampus Crusade for Christone grant, 2023 · $63k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Redeem's mission is to protect widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation.
Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
To glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by ministering to orphans around the world by meeting spiritual, physical, emotional, and educational needs.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
Love Life is uniting and mobilizing the church to create a culture of love and life that will bring an end to abortion and the orphan crisis.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 39 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 FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds United in Purpose ↗
- Who funds GENERATION ONE INC ↗
- Who funds 1557 MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LOVE A CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR ADVENTURES CLUB ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds AS OUR OWN NFP ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds INNOVATIVE EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nicholson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nicholson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Love a Child Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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