Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Nicely Ridge Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $796k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $133,667
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Nicely Ridge Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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 | 20 | $758k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $700k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $704k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $795k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $636k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $315k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $437k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $507k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ligonier Camp & Conference Center | $645,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Pennsylvania State University | $610,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $550,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Trade Institute of Pittsburgh | $200,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Beverly Heights Presbyterian Church | $171,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Light of Life Ministries Inc | $140,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Urban Impact Foundation | $133,667 | 1 | 1% |
| Western Pennsylvania Conservancy | $122,000 | 8 | 0% |
| STEM Coding Lab Inc | $120,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Pittsburgh Botanic Garden | $115,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Nicely Ridge Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 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.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Eqt Foundation · Massey Charitable Trust · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Allegheny Foundation · Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat · McElhattan Foundation · The Heinz Endowments
How this is measured
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About The Nicely Ridge Foundation
- How much does The Nicely Ridge Foundation give?
- The Nicely Ridge Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $796,165 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Nicely Ridge Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Recreation & Sports (13%), Community Improvement (11%).
- Who are The Nicely Ridge Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Ligonier Camp & Conference Center ($645k), Pennsylvania State University ($610k), Carnegie Mellon University ($550k).
- Does The Nicely Ridge Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Nicely Ridge Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Nicely Ridge Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Grable Foundation, Richard King Mellon Foundation.
- Where is The Nicely Ridge Foundation based?
- The Nicely Ridge Foundation is based in PA.
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