· Private foundation
The Nicholas 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| MAYO FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE | $2,000 |
| SAFE HOUSE | $2,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $2,000 |
| DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH | $2,000 |
| SAFE NEST SHELTER | $2,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAS VEGAS | $1,000 |
| SHADE TREE SHELTER | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY CLARK CITY | $1,000 |
| SOUTHERN NEVADA MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATIO | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN7× · 2019–2025 · $19k · revenue +126%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +392%- SHSAFE HOUSE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $13k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- AAANDRE AGASSI FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +209%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The tahoe nordic search and rescue team (tnsar) ... was conceived in 1976 as a response to the death of a boy lost off the back side of northstar-at-tahoe ski area during a blizzard. there was, at the time, no organized backcountry team to…
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
As part of intermountain health, mount saint vincent partners with children and families to heal beyond trauma into a healthy and hopeful future.
To provide safe shelter, support and advocacy for adults and their children, and to provide an end to violence against adults, youth and children through support, advocacy and community organizing.
The shade tree, inc. (organization), a nevada nonprofit corporation, provides temporary shelter for homeless and abused women and children in crisis and offers life-changing services promoting stability, dignity, and self reliance. the…
To promote the educational and professional interests of dermatologic surgeons, to provide a vehicle for advocacy and public education efforts on behalf of dermatologic surgeons and their patients, and to address socio-economic issues that…
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Andre Agassi Foundation for Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 19 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE NESTTEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds National Merit Scholarship Corporation ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ANDRE AGASSI FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Southern Nevada Mountain Bike Assoc ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Nicholas Foundation 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.