· 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LUKE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $21,200 |
| ST MARY OUR LADY OF THE ISLE | $10,000 |
| SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA | $2,805 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ARLINGTON | $1,000 |
| MT ST MARY'S SEMINARY | $1,000 |
| BLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA | $500 |
| FOCUS | $500 |
| METRO CLUB PRESERVATION | $250 |
| CATHOLIC INFORMATION CENTER | $250 |
| WORD ON FIRE | $200 |
| ARMY HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $175 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 17% of its 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 +54% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CLCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE6× · 2017–2023 · $68k · revenue +216%
- COCOUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMBASSADORS2× · 2019–2022 · $2k · revenue +42%
- TCTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- SJST JOHNS COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $5k
- PMPONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $3k
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
The association of catholic colleges and universities, founded in 1899, serves as the collective voice of u.s catholic higher education. through programs and services, the association strengthens and promptes the catholic identity and…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 44 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 CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMBASSADORS ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PARADISUS DEI INC ↗
- Who funds RELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTS CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.
How this is measured
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