California · Private foundation
The Nicholson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $313k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 48
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations The Nicholson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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 | 49 | $313k | 41% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $323k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $326k | 54% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $347k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Mark Childrens Fund | $175,000 | 4 | 1% |
| First Graduate | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hospice of Santa Cruz County | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Music In Schools Today | $30,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Shine Together Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Leap Arts in Education Fka Leap Imagination in Learning | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Teen Kitchen Project | $25,000 | 3 | 1% |
| ARTogether | $22,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Beyond Emancipation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($258k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Nicholson Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: East Bay Community Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Bothin Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Barrios Trust · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Marin Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Nicholson Family Foundation
- How much does The Nicholson Family Foundation give?
- The Nicholson Family Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $313,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 48 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Nicholson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Health (24%), Youth Development (19%).
- Who are The Nicholson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: George Mark Childrens Fund ($175k), First Graduate ($30k), Hospice of Santa Cruz County ($30k).
- Does The Nicholson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Nicholson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Nicholson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Bay Community Foundation, The Morris Stulsaft Foundation, The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation.
- Where is The Nicholson Family Foundation based?
- The Nicholson Family Foundation is based in CA.
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