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The Nicholson 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k4 grants · $484k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLASSROOTS INC | $500,000 |
| METAL MUSEUM | $190,000 |
| GLASSROOTS INC | $144,348 |
| THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT PROJECT | $100,000 |
| PECONIC ARTS SCHOOL OF FINE CRAFTS | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $340k 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
GLASSROOTS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +66% · 58% of their budget
VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF NEW JERSEY2× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +41% · 25% of their budget- MFMETROPOLITAN FAMILY HEALTH NETWORK2× · 2020–2021 · $236k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- PAPOCOSIN ARTS INC 21NC211one grant, 2021 · $500k
- AAAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICSone grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue +17%
- SNSOUTHERN NEW JERSEY PERINATAL COOPERATIVEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $360k · revenue +51%
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.
We are an innovative research org. dedicated to revitalizing economic development within nj.
The mission of the new jersey education association is to advance and protect the rights, benefits, and interests of members, and promote a quality system of public education for all students.
To provide advocacy, research, analysis, communication and publication of information concerning healthcare products, r & d, their manufacture and marketing as they pertain to new jersey's pharmaceutical and medical technology industry.
Jfk medical associates, p.a. is committed to excellence in providing quality and compassionate healthcare services to diverse communities.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The organization provides high quality medical care to the community that it serves and specifically provides cardiology & related professional medical services in conjunction with hmh hospitals corp.
Work for the improvement of health standards and the availability of healthcare services for all people; foster high standards of nursing; stimulate and promote the professional development of nurses; advance the economic and general…
New jersey association of nurse anesthetists (the organization) is a non-profit organization that facilitates the cooperation between nurse anesthetists and the medical profession, hospitals and other agencies interested in anesthesia and…
The mission of the new jersey psychiatric association is to serve its members' professional practice needs, including delivering essential practice management tools and continuing education programs; fostering physician wellness as the…
Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
Strengthen manufacturers competitiveness by enhancing productivity, performance and profitability. as a trusted advisor to new jersey manufacturers, we leverage our staff and resources to help identify areas of improvement and streamline…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Visual Arts Center of New Jersey and the most unlike its peers is National Ornamental Metal Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 108 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.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Henry & Marilyn Taub Foundation · The Burke Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Nicholson 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Greater Bergen Community Action Inc — 62% of income from government
- Metropolitan Family Health Network — 31% of income from government
- Center for Health Care Strategies Inc — 7% of income from government
- Glassroots Inc — 5% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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.
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