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The Gr & Mf Nichols Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$57k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
21%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,275
Organizations funded a year
14 to 21
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Gr & Mf Nichols Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$57k18%
FY202414$49k21%
FY202321$62k33%
FY202217$56k12%
FY202117$51k29%
FY202017$47k29%
FY201921$55k43%
FY201820$46k40%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$295kPublic Benefit$34kYouth Development$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$17kFood & Nutrition$17kArts & Culture$15kHuman Services$14kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Culver-Stockton College$127,87590%
Lewis County Food Pantry Inc$8,1003n/a
Heartland Resources Inc$8,00021%
Lewis County Historical Society$7,5004n/a
Southwest Baptist University$7,50060%
Splash Station$5,5004n/a
Central Methodist University$4,00040%
Columbia College$3,50030%
Maryville University - St Louis$2,50030%
Wider Opportunities Inc$2,42511%
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All grantees of The Gr & Mf Nichols Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Culver-Stockton College$127,87590%
Lewis County Food Pantry Inc$8,1003n/a
Heartland Resources Inc$8,00021%
Lewis County Historical Society$7,5004n/a
Southwest Baptist University$7,50060%
Splash Station$5,5004n/a
Central Methodist University$4,00040%
Columbia College$3,50030%
Maryville University - St Louis$2,50030%
Wider Opportunities Inc$2,42511%
William Woods University$2,00030%
Canton Christian Church$2,0001n/a
Westminster College$2,00020%
North East Communtiy Action Corporation Subsidiaries$1,50020%
Central Christian College of the Bible$1,00010%
Lindenwood Education System$1,00010%
Canton Community Center Inc$40013%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($281k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gr & Mf Nichols Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCulver-Stockton College: $127,875 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHeartland Resources Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSouthwest Baptist University: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Methodist University: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia College: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMaryville University - St Louis: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWider Opportunities Inc: $2,425 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWilliam Woods University: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWestminster College: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorth East Communtiy Action Corporation Subsidiaries: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Christian College of the Bible: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLindenwood Education System: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanton Community Center Inc: $400 over 1y, 3.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Missouri Colleges Fund IncMO20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Missouri Colleges Fund Inc · T Michal Flottman Scholarship Trust · Griffin Family Foundation Inc · Jl & Da Hays Memorial Scholarship Trust · Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust · Tulsa Community Foundation · Porter Edwin M Educational Fund · Hardin Memorial Scholarship Foundation · William Edgar Charitable Foundation · Bour Memorial Scholarship Fund American National Bank of Texas · George & Hazel Barber Scholarship Trust · Jack J Isgur 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.

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About The Gr & Mf Nichols Foundation

How much does The Gr & Mf Nichols Foundation give?
The Gr & Mf Nichols Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $57,243 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Gr & Mf Nichols Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (63%), Public Benefit (7%), Youth Development (5%).
Who are The Gr & Mf Nichols Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Culver-Stockton College ($128k), Lewis County Food Pantry Inc ($8k), Heartland Resources Inc ($8k).
Does The Gr & Mf Nichols Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Gr & Mf Nichols Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Gr & Mf Nichols Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Missouri Colleges Fund Inc, T Michal Flottman Scholarship Trust, Griffin Family Foundation Inc.
Where is The Gr & Mf Nichols Foundation based?
The Gr & Mf Nichols Foundation is based in MO.

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 61 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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