Wisconsin · Private foundation
The Lori and David Nicholas Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 24
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $52M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Lori and David Nicholas Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $2.3M | 24% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $2.2M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $1.6M | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $30k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nativity Jesuit Academy Inc | $1,170,634 | 3 | n/a |
| The Ridges Sanctuary Inc | $835,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Friends of Peninsula State Park Inc | $620,000 | 3 | 49% |
| Afar Inc Dba the Ability Center | $550,000 | 2 | 24% |
| Milwaukee Domes Alliance Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 13% |
| The Uwm Foundation Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Grand Avenue Club Inc | $185,706 | 2 | 7% |
| Reflo Inc | $175,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Door County Bookmobile Inc | $160,000 | 2 | 83% |
| Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin Inc | $156,000 | 1 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($435k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Lori and David Nicholas Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About The Lori and David Nicholas Family Foundation Inc
- How much does The Lori and David Nicholas Family Foundation Inc give?
- The Lori and David Nicholas Family Foundation Inc reported 27 grants totaling $2,798,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 24 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Lori and David Nicholas Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Environment (18%), Philanthropy (18%).
- Who are The Lori and David Nicholas Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Nativity Jesuit Academy Inc ($1.2M), The Ridges Sanctuary Inc ($835k), Friends of Peninsula State Park Inc ($620k).
- Does The Lori and David Nicholas Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lori and David Nicholas Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lori and David Nicholas Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Green Bay Packers Foundation, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc.
- Where is The Lori and David Nicholas Family Foundation Inc based?
- The Lori and David Nicholas Family Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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