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Nickoll Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Nickoll Family Foundation Inc

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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$7.4MHealth$663kPhilanthropy$550kInternational$55kReligion$35kCommunity Improvement$30kYouth Development$25kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,840,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Harvard Westlake School$1,840,000
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 (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE ACHIEVABLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.5M · 4 repeat orgs$845k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
14

Total granted

$7.5M
$845k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+85%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • HS
    HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $7.0M · revenue -5%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY INC
    2× · 2018–2023 · $450k · revenue +8%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
    2× · 2017–2021 · $45k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • DH
    DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +85%
  • UO
    University of Michigangraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $176k · revenue +139% · 66% of their budget
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
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
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
2
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
3
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

—
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Associated Students Ucla

The associated students ucla, as a responsive student-centered organization, provides innovative and excellent services, programs, products, and facilities for the entire ucla community.

Education
7
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
8
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
9
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

—
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
12
Occidental College

See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Leadership Academy; the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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

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 22 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $6,990,000 · EducationHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL+2 more: $145,000 · EducationUniversity of Michigan: $176,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $150,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $50,000 · OtherTEMPLE ISAIAH: $35,000 · OtherSHOREWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT: $30,000 · OtherTHE LA LEADERSHIP FDN: $30,000 · OtherBeit T'Shuvah: $25,000 · Other+4 more: $24,000 · OtherUNITED WAY INC: $450,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $100,000 · PhilanthropyDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $200,000 · HealthBROWN UNIVERSITY: $140,000 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $55,000 · InternationalGIRLS INC OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE ACHIEVABLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human Services
Education$7,135,000Other$620,000Philanthropy$550,000Health$200,000Community Improvement$140,000International$55,000Youth Development$25,000Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $6,990,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $450,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $176,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $140,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $50,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS INC OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE ACHIEVABLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Nickoll Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nickoll Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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.
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    How do I get to Nickoll Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Nickoll Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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