Kentucky · Private foundation
Nicklies Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $232k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Nicklies Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k 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 | 48 | $232k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $230k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $74k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $137k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $94k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $110k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $120k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $74k | 68% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21st Century Parks Inc | $289,383 | 9 | 2% |
| Mackinac Center | $70,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Healing Place Inc | $43,750 | 7 | 0% |
| USA Cares Inc | $43,300 | 6 | 0% |
| Metro United Way Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| March of Dimes Inc | $35,100 | 7 | 0% |
| Healthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc | $34,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Dare to Care Inc | $28,100 | 7 | 0% |
| Louisville Metro Police Foundation Inc | $26,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Thrive by 5 Louisville Inc | $23,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 84 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($137k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nicklies Foundation Inc 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: 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
How this is measured
About Nicklies Foundation Inc
- How much does Nicklies Foundation Inc give?
- Nicklies Foundation Inc reported 48 grants totaling $231,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Nicklies Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (27%), Health (13%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Nicklies Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: 21st Century Parks Inc ($289k), Mackinac Center ($70k), The Healing Place Inc ($44k).
- Does Nicklies Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nicklies Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nicklies Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc, The Gheens Foundation Inc.
- Where is Nicklies Foundation Inc based?
- Nicklies Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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