· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| MAYO FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| SAFE HOUSE | $2,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE | $2,000 |
| DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH | $2,000 |
| SAFE NEST SHELTER | $2,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY CLARK CITY | $1,000 |
| SOUTHERN NEVADA MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATIO | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAS VEGAS | $1,000 |
| SHADE TREE SHELTER | $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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 19 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.
- 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 ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Nicholas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nicholas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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