· Private foundation
The Gr & Mf Nichols Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CULVER STOCKTON COLLEGE | $20,275 |
| CANTON R-V SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CANTON R-V FIRE PROT DISTRICT | $4,368 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI | $4,000 |
| LEWIS CO FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,800 |
| LAGRANGE YOUTH CENTER | $2,500 |
| CULVER STOCKTON COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| LEWIS CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,300 |
| SW BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| LINDENWOOD UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| SPLASH STATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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
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 +16% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SBSOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +30%
- CMCENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY4× · 2019–2022 · $4k · revenue +14%
- MUMaryville University - St Louis3× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- LCLEWIS COUNTY C-1 SCHOOL DISTone grant, 2020 · $7k
- CRCANTON R-V FIRE DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $6k
- CHCANTON HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The mission of cumberland university is to provide a personalized, high-quality, value-based educational experience that equips learners to lead, serve, and excel in an ever-evolving world.
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
The morningside university experience cultivates a passion for life-long learning and a dedication to ethical leadership and civic responsibility.
Central christian college of kansas is a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college with the primary mission of offering a christ-centered education for character.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 61 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.
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gr & Mf Nichols Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gr & Mf Nichols Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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