· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 108 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.
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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Henry & Marilyn Taub Foundation · The Burke Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Nicholson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nicholson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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