· Private foundation
Nikkel 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROSSOVER PREP ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| KANSAS CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| METRO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| CRISTO REY KANSAS CITY | $40,000 |
| ELAM MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| CHRIST FOR HUMANITY INC | $30,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $20,000 |
| LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE | $20,000 |
| SHE BREWS COFFEE & TRANSITION PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| TABOR COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| ALLIANCE RESOURCES PARTNERS LP - PTP | $116 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6 |
| CHENIERE ENERGY PARTNERS LP - PTP | $2 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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 +67% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTULSA CHRISTIAN EDUCATION CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $264k · revenue +70%
- EMElam Ministries8× · 2017–2024 · $230k · revenue +67%
- KCKANSAS CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- RMRWANDA MINISTRY PARTNERSone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -41%
- OBOKLAHOMA BAPTIST DISASTER RELIEFone grant, 2017 · $10k
- SHSOUTHERN HILLS BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $7k
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.
Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Serving god by providing christ-centered higher education.
The mission of crown college is to provide a biblically based education for christian leadership in the christian and missionary alliance, the church-at-large, and the world.
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
Presbyterian theological seminary in america exists to servce the korean presbyterian church abroad (kpca) and the kingdom of god by equipping students for effective service to god, his church, and the world he sends us to evangelize.
To develop christ-centered servant leaders through a challenging academic environment in order to impact the world for the kingdom of god.
Trinity equips men and women with a christian world view of leadership and service in life, work and minsitry through distance education that encourages professional and academic excellence.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Provide a biblically informed liberal arts education to undergraduate and graduate college students. we strive to offer the highest quality of instruction to prepare students for excellence in further study and careers beyond trinity. all…
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 34 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 CRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TULSA CHRISTIAN EDUCATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Elam Ministries ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPRING SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Trinity International University ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Tabor College ↗
- Who funds CHRIST FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds CAR CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds RWANDA MINISTRY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds STAND IN THE GAP 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: Tulsa Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Nikkel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nikkel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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