· Private foundation
Nicklies Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $123k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC | $25,000 |
| THRIVE BY 5 LOUISVILLE | $23,000 |
| LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HEALING PLACE | $13,750 |
| USA CARES INC | $11,000 |
| NATIVITY ACADEMY AT ST BONIFACE | $10,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA MID- STATES | $10,000 |
| HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA CHANCE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HOPES CLOSET INC | $5,000 |
| KENTCKY HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR WOMEN & FAMILIES | $5,000 |
| BLUEGRASS CENTER FOR AUTISM INC | $5,000 |
| ISAIAH HOUSE INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 90% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 15 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
- 2C21ST CENTURY PARKS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $289k · revenue +23%
- THTHE HEALING PLACE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +14%
- UCUSA CARES INC6× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +166%
Funded once
- MCMACKINAC CENTERone grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue 0%
- GCGeorgia Center for Opportunity Incone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +11%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & INone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +20%
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
Provides community service(family counseling & day care) to the inner of louisville.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To provide access to primary medical, dental and mental health services for community members, with emphasis on the medically underserved, to improve the health of the community and to train future health care providers.
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.
Children's advocacy centers of kentucky, inc. seeks to build relationships at the state and national levels by collaborating with partners which will benefit the work of kentucky child advocacy centers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in and the most unlike its peers is Middletown Post No 1170 Vfw. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
76 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. 76 of the 122 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 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds USA CARES INC ↗
- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE BY 5 LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER FIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc ↗
- Who funds Christopher 2X Game Changers Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY ACADEMY AT SAINT BONIFACE ↗
- Who funds Hildegard House Incorporated ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CHANCE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE S CLOSET INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE RIVER REGION ↗
- Who funds SCARLET HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PARENT ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Lift a Life Foundation 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 Nicklies 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 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.