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The Lori and David Nicholas Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0174% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2025.

Philanthropy$1.3MRecreation & Sports$940kAnimals$835kHuman Services$550kEducation$550kArts & Culture$538kEnvironment$505kFood & Nutrition$156kHealth$85kOther$2.0M
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $198k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $930k
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.7M
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIVITY JESUIT ACADEMY$600,000
FRIENDS OF PENINSULA STATE PARK INC$300,000
THE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC$265,000
DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$250,000
DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$250,000
AFAR INC$200,000
FRIENDS OF THE DOMES INC - MILWAUKEE DOMES ALLIANCE$200,000
UWM FOUNDATION INC$100,000
DOOR COUNTY BOOKMOBILE$85,000
PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC$75,000
RADIO MILWAUKEE$70,000
ST JUDE THE APOSTLE SCHOOL$50,000
THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC$50,000
VILLAGE OF EGG HARBOR PEG EGAN PAC$50,000
REFLO INC$50,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $550k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AFAR INC: $350k → 17%AFAR INC: $200k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of The Lori and David Nicholas Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 94% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Lori and David Nicholas Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.3M · 22 repeat orgs$814k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
14

Total granted

$5.3M
$651k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+8%

Still filing today

86%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF PENINSULA STATE PARK INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $620k · revenue +260% · 49% of their budget
  • MD
    MILWAUKEE DOMES ALLIANCE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $300k · revenue +20%
  • THE UWM FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $156k · revenue +17%
  • SC
    SOUTH CENTRAL LIBRARY SYSTEM FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue +39%
  • EH
    EGG HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $75k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Landmark Conservancy Inc

Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.

Environment
2
Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc

Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.

Environment
3
Door County Land Trust Inc

The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.

Environment
4
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
5
Wisconsin's Green Fire Incorporated

Advance science-informed analysis and policy solutions that address wisconsin's greatest conservation challenges.

Environment
6
Wisconsin Association of Lakes Inc

The mission of the wisconsin association of lakes is to conserve, enhance, and restore wisconsin's 15,000 lakes to ensure their sustainability for the benefit and collective use and enjoyment for this and future generations.

Environment
7
Fund for Lake Michigan Inc

Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…

Environment
8
Friends of Wisconsin State Parks Inc

To preserve, promote, protect, and enhance wisconsin state parks, forests, trails, and recreation areas.

Recreation & Sports
9
Wisconsin Wildlife Federation Inc

The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.

Environment
10
Natural Resources Foundation of

To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.

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11
Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation Association Inc

To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.

Environment
12
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Kipsongo Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr12%0%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr18%43%20–35yr16%20%35–55yr18%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr12%0%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr18%36%20–35yr16%9%35–55yr18%30%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
10%
1,312/12,754

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
22/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIVITY JESUIT ACADEMY INC — $1,170,634 · OtherNATIVITY JESUIT ACADEMY INCDCMC — $200,000 · OtherDCMCGRAND AVENUE CLUB INC — $185,706 · OtherGRAND AVENUE CLUB INCVILLAGE OF EGG HARBOR PEG EGAN PAC — $150,000 · OtherVILLAGE OF EGG HARBOR PEG EGAN PACREFLO INC — $175,000 · OtherREFLO INCFRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER INC — $115,000 · OtherFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $156,000 · OtherFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC+18 more — $572,010 · Other+18 moreDOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,320,000 · PhilanthropyDOOR COUNTY COMMUNIT…FRIENDS OF PENINSULA STATE PARK INC — $620,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF PEN…MILWAUKEE DOMES ALLIANCE INC — $300,000 · Recreation & SportsMILWAUKEE DOME…+1 more — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC — $835,000 · AnimalsTHE RIDGES S…AFAR INC DBA THE ABILITY CENTER — $550,000 · Human ServicesTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 · EducationSOUTH CENTRAL LIBRARY SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $50,000 · EducationDOOR COMMUNITY AUDITORIUM CORP — $20,000 · EducationTOSA TONIGHT INC — $20,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationDOOR COUNTY BOOKMOBILE INC — $160,000 · Arts & CulturePENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureRADIO MILWAUKEE INC — $95,000 · Arts & CultureDOOR SHAKESPEARE INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureWRITE ON DOOR COUNTY INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureGUMBO LIMBO COASTAL STEWARDS INC — $23,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,724,350Philanthropy$1,320,000Recreation & Sports$940,000Animals$835,000Human Services$550,000Education$550,000Arts & Culture$538,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,320,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetTHE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC — $835,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetFRIENDS OF PENINSULA STATE PARK INC — $620,000 over 3y, 49% of budgetAFAR INC DBA THE ABILITY CENTER — $550,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetMILWAUKEE DOMES ALLIANCE INC — $300,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGRAND AVENUE CLUB INC — $185,706 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetREFLO INC — $175,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetDOOR COUNTY BOOKMOBILE INC — $160,000 over 2y, 83% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $156,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC — $150,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER INC — $115,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetRADIO MILWAUKEE INC — $95,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGATHERING WATERS INC — $70,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetDOOR SHAKESPEARE INC — $60,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWRITE ON DOOR COUNTY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTALL PINES CONSERVANCY — $45,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetNORTHWOODS LAND TRUST INC — $40,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetRESTORING LANDS INC — $40,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIAS — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE AEMILIAN PRESCHOOL INC — $22,010 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBreckenridge Outdoor Education Center — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDOOR COMMUNITY AUDITORIUM CORP — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCROSSROADS AT BIG CREEK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTOSA TONIGHT INC — $20,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetBICYCLE FEDERATION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE KICKERS SOCCER CLUB INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWHEELS FOR WINNERS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Green Bay Packers Fou…Greater Milwaukee Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Door County Community…Baird Foundation IncGreater Green Bay Com…Ellsworth and Carla P…Curt and Sue Culver F…Lutsey Family Foundat…Maihaugen Foundation …Hislop Family Foundat…Mmg Foundation Inc
Green Bay Packers FoundationWI31.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Door County Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation · Curt and Sue Culver Family Foundation Inc · Lutsey Family Foundation · Maihaugen Foundation Inc Agency Xxxxxx2262 · Hislop Family Foundation · Mmg Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Lori and David Nicholas Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Lori and David Nicholas Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Lori and David Nicholas 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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