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Nicklies Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Nicklies Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$232k
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$310kHealth$152kHuman Services$141kEducation$109kHousing & Shelter$71kPublic Benefit$71kPhilanthropy$52kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $123k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA MID- STATES$10,000
NATIVITY ACADEMY AT ST BONIFACE$10,000
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION$10,000
THE CENTER FOR WOMEN & FAMILIES$5,000
ISAIAH HOUSE INC$5,000
MARCH OF DIMES INC$5,000
502 CIRCLE FOUNDATION$5,000
VIRGINIA CHANCE SCHOOL$5,000
HOPES CLOSET INC$5,000
ST JOSEPH CHILDREN'S HOME$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%HOPES CLOSET INC: $5k → 9%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%HOPES CLOSET INC: $5k → 9%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%ST MARY'S CENTER: $240 → 15%SCARLET HOPE: $3k → 15%SCARLET HOPE: $2k → 15%SCARLET HOPE: $2k → 15%SCARLET HOPE INC: $1k → 15%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY MINITRIES: $500 → 15%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $500 → 15%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $500 → 15%HOSPARUS HEALTH: $100 → 15%STUTTER NAVIGATOR INC: $1k → 15%JOSHUA COMMUNITY CONNECTORS INC: $5k → 15%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S PLACE: $2k → 15%ELDERSERVE: $2k → 15%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S PLACE: $2k → 15%CHRISTOPHER IIX GAME CHANGERS INC: $5k → 15%CHRISTOPHER IIX GAME CHANGERS INC: $5k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $5k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $4k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $4k → 15%LOVE CITY INC: $3k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $2k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $2k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $2k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $500 → 15%PEACE CENTERED ALLIANCE INC: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
IN
OH
CT
KY
VA
TN
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$883k · 54 repeat orgs$265k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
53

Total granted

$883k
$191k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+13%

Still filing today

76%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • 2C
    21ST CENTURY PARKS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $289k · revenue +23%
  • TH
    THE HEALING PLACE INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +14%
  • UC
    USA CARES INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +166%

Funded once

  • MC
    MACKINAC CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue 0%
  • GC
    Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +11%
  • MO
    MARCH OF DIMES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
2
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
3
Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
4
Louisville Central Community Centerinc

Provides community service(family counseling & day care) to the inner of louisville.

Recreation & Sports
5
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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6
Southern Indiana Community Health Care

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…

Health
7
Louisville Collegiate School

Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.

Education
8
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
9
Family Health Center of Boone County

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.

—
10
Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Inc

To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.

Human Services
11
The Louisville Urban League Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Children's Advocacy Centers of Kentucky Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in; 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.
04the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 122 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/76
Grantees still filing
51/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

21ST CENTURY PARKS INC: $289,383 · Recreation & Sports21ST CENTURY PARKS INCTHE HEALING PLACE INC: $43,750 · OtherTHE HEALING PLACE INCIndividual grant recipient: $17,000 · OtherMETRO UNITED WAY INC: $40,000 · OtherMETRO UNITED WAY INCDARE TO CARE INC: $28,100 · OtherDARE TO CARE INCLOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 · OtherLOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INCRIVER FIELDS INC: $20,000 · Other+69 more: $232,946 · Other+69 moreMARCH OF DIMES INC: $35,100 · HealthMARCH OF DI…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $21,500 · HealthTHE CHILDRE…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN: $10,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $9,000 · HealthRONALD MCDO…OPERATION PARENT: $7,000 · HealthOPERATION P…THE DREAM FACTORY INC: $6,000 · HealthTHE DREAM F…FHGR INC: $5,500 · HealthISAIAH HOUSE INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE JACKSON CHANCE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health+5 more: $7,650 · Health+5 moreHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $34,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETW…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $18,500 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHO…Christopher 2X Game Changers Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesChristophe…HOPE S CLOSET INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOPE S CLO…THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER…SCARLET HOPE INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesSCARLET HO…JOSHUA COMMUNITY CONNECTORS INC: $5,000 · Human Services+7 more: $10,840 · Human Services+7 moreTHRIVE BY 5 LOUISVILLE INC: $23,000 · EducationTHRIVE BY …BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $20,000 · EducationBELLARMINE…Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc: $15,000 · EducationGeorgia Ce…CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · EducationCATHOLIC E…NATIVITY ACADEMY AT SAINT BONIFACE: $10,000 · EducationNATIVITY A…COMMUNITY ADVOCATES FOR RESOURCES & EMPOWERMENT INC: $6,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY …BLUEGRASS CENTER FOR AUTISM INC: $5,000 · Education+6 more: $10,500 · Education+6 moreMACKINAC CENTER: $70,000 · Public BenefitUSA CARES INC: $43,300 · Housing & ShelterHildegard House Incorporated: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC: $2,500 · Housing & Shelter
Recreation & Sports$289,383Other$407,796Health$111,750Human Services$108,340Education$102,000Public Benefit$70,000Housing & Shelter$58,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget21ST CENTURY PARKS INC: $289,383 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $70,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HEALING PLACE INC: $43,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUSA CARES INC: $43,300 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $35,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $34,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDARE TO CARE INC: $28,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHRIVE BY 5 LOUISVILLE INC: $23,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $21,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER FIELDS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $18,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetGeorgia Center for Opportunity Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChristopher 2X Game Changers Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE S CLOSET INC: $10,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetNATIVITY ACADEMY AT SAINT BONIFACE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHildegard House Incorporated: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVIRGINIA CHANCE SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST JOHN CENTER INC: $8,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF THE RIVER REGION: $8,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION PARENT: $7,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSCARLET HOPE INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF OXMOOR FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DREAM FACTORY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ADVOCATES FOR RESOURCES & EMPOWERMENT INC: $6,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetFHGR INC: $5,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE JACKSON CHANCE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJOSHUA COMMUNITY CONNECTORS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEVEN COUNTIES SERVICES INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATIONAL JUSTICE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUSPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN): $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDREAM CENTER ACADEMY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLove City Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetQUEEN'S DAUGHTERS INC: $2,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMARYHURST INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds RIVER FIELDS INC ↗
  • 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 HOPE S CLOSET INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIVITY ACADEMY AT SAINT BONIFACE ↗
  • Who funds Hildegard House Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA CHANCE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN ↗
  • 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 OPERATION PARENT ↗
  • Who funds SCARLET HOPE 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.

The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…The Gheens Foundation…The Community Foundat…Kosair Charities Comm…Cralle Foundation IncHonorable Order of Ke…V V Cooke Foundation …Snowy Owl Foundation …LG&E and Ku Foundatio…Republic Bank Foundat…Lift a Life Foundatio…
The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY91.9× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Nicklies Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nicklies Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 122 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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