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The Nicholls Biondi Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5.1M
Granted FY2023
27
Itemized grants FY2023
20
Organizations funded FY2023
35%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$5.0M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 24
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
8
Total assets, FY2023
$45M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 35% of the organizations The Nicholls Biondi Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202320$5.0M35%
FY202224$4.8M33%
FY202123$4.0Mn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$5.8MHealth$3.4MScience & Tech$2.1MSocial Science$450kHuman Services$175kInternational$45kPhilanthropy$31kArts & Culture$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Duke University$3,400,00030%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory$2,100,00030%
Amherst College Trustees$2,035,00030%
Green Vale School$425,00032%
The Brearley School$400,00020%
Portledge School$358,75021%
University of Richmond$200,00020%
Friends Academy$200,00030%
Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc$175,00031%
Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf$100,00011%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Nicholls Biondi Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDuke University: $3,400,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCold Spring Harbor Laboratory: $2,100,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAmherst College Trustees: $2,035,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGreen Vale School: $425,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetThe Brearley School: $400,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPortledge School: $358,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Richmond: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends Academy: $200,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSunrise Day Camps Association Inc: $175,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMill Neck Manor School for the Deaf: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFairfield University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFusion Academy Scholarship Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Asia Institute: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Second Stage Theatre Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInner City Scholarship Fund Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Episcopal School in the City of New York: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPestalozzi US Childrens Charity Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHobe Sound Community Chest Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFRAXA Research Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJupiter Island Historical Society Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Nicholls Biondi Foundation

How much does The Nicholls Biondi Foundation give?
The Nicholls Biondi Foundation reported 27 itemized grants totaling $4,985,150, out of $5,085,150 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 24 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does The Nicholls Biondi Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (31%), Health (18%), Science & Tech (11%).
Who are The Nicholls Biondi Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Duke University ($3.4M), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ($2.1M), Amherst College Trustees ($2.0M).
Does The Nicholls Biondi Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Nicholls Biondi 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 Nicholls Biondi Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Nicholls Biondi Foundation based?
The Nicholls Biondi Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $4.2M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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