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The Nicoli Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$58k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$86kYouth Development$39kInternational$36kEducation$31kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kReligion$337
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $32k
$2,674
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHEHALEM VALLEY BMX$32,000
TIGARD BOOSTERS CLUB INC$5,202
TIGARD HIGH BAND BOOSTERS$5,042
ROTARY CLUB OF TIGARD FOUNDATION$5,000
THE FOUNDATION FOR TIGARD-TUALATIN SCHOOLS$2,957
FRIENDS OF TIGARD FOOTBALL$2,674
TIGARD CERT INC$2,000
TIGARD SAFE GRADS$1,557
MOUNTAIN WAVE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS INC$1,500
TUALATIN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB$127
BETHLEHEM HOUSE OF BREAD$109
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%TIGARD BOOSTERS CLUB INC: $46k → 8%MOUNTAIN WAVE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS INC: $2k → 8%CHEHALEM VALLEY BMX: $32k → 11%KING CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%MOUNTAIN WAVE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS INC: $1k → 8%TIGARD BOOSTERS CLUB INC: $5k → 8%FRIENDS OF TIGARD FOOTBALL: $3k → 8%TIGARD CERT INC: $2k → 8%TIGARD SAFE GRADS: $2k → 8%TIGARD SAFE GRADS: $1k → 8%TIGARD BOOSTERS CLUB INC: $192 → 8%TIGARD CERT INC: $1k → 8%TIGARD CERT: $18 → 8%FOUNDATION OF TIGARD BREAKFAST ROTARY CLUB INC: $26k → 8%CUB SCOUT PACK 690 (MARY WOODWARD PSO): $12k → 8%FOUNDATION OF TIGARD BREAKFAST ROTARY CLUB INC: $10k → 8%ROTARY CLUB OF TIGARD FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 8%ROTARY CLUB OF TIGARD FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%THE FOUNDATION FOR TIGARD-TUALATIN SCHOOLS: $3k → 8%THE FOUNDATION FOR TIGARD-TUALATIN SCHOOLS: $2k → 8%THE FOUNDATION FOR TIGARD-TUALATIN SCHOOLS: $462 → 8%BETHLEHEM HOUSE OF BREAD: $192 → 8%BETHLEHEM HOUSE OF BREAD: $109 → 8%BETHLEHEM HOUSE OF BREAD: $36 → 8%TUALATIN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $171 → 8%TUALATIN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $127 → 8%TUALATIN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $60 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$144k · 10 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$144k
$20k

Still filing today

60%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TB
    TIGARD BOOSTERS CLUB INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $51k · revenue +98%
  • TH
    TIGARD HIGH BAND BOOSTERS
    4× · 2021–2025 · $27k · revenue +44% · 49% of their budget
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF TIGARD FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +117% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • CS
    CUB SCOUT PACK 690 (MARY WOODWARD PSO)
    one grant, 2024 · $12k
  • KC
    KING CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Taft Tigers Boosters

Provide time and funds for the promotion, betterment, and continuation of sports at taft high school in lincoln city, oregon.

Education
2
Tualatin Lacrosse Club

Lacrosse Club for high school students

Youth Development
3
Beaverton Band Boosters

Support beaverton high school band activities and performances.

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4
Riverside Jr Sr High School Booster Club

Support high school athletics

Education
5
Mountlake Terrace High School Band Boosters

Support MLT High School Music Programs

—
6
Tigard Basketball Association Inc

To create and maintain a basketball program for the youth of Tigard.

Recreation & Sports
7
Tygh Valley Rural Fire Protection District

Fire Protection

—
8
Tider Football Booster Club Inc

Support for high school football

Recreation & Sports
9
Tualatin Quarterback Club Inc

Supporting youth football program

Recreation & Sports
10
Tahoma Band Boosters

To support and enhance the Tahoma School District band programs through fundraising community engagement and direct support of student musicians.

Arts & Culture
11
Creswell Booster Club

Support Creswell High School Athletics

Education
12
Titan Football Boosters Club

Support of the poway high school football program in the form of uniforms, recognition of athletes and coaching support.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tigard Boosters Club Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mountain Wave Emergency Communications Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 14 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Chehalem Valley Bmx: $32,000 · OtherChehalem Valley BmxTIGARD HIGH BAND BOOSTERS: $27,110 · OtherTIGARD HIGH BAND BOOSTERSCUB SCOUT PACK 690 (MARY WOODWARD PSO): $12,000 · OtherCUB SCOUT PACK 690 (MARY WOODWARD PSO)KING CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,000 · OtherKING CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONTHE FOUNDATION FOR TIGARD TUALATIN SCHOOLS: $5,492 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION FOR TIGARD TUALATIN SCHOOLS+3 more: $6,164 · Other+3 moreTIGARD BOOSTERS CLUB INC: $51,432 · EducationTIGARD BOOSTERS CLUB INCROTARY CLUB OF TIGARD FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationROTARY CLUB OF TIGARD FOUNDATION INCFRIENDS OF TIGARD FOOTBALL: $2,674 · Education+1 more: $358 · EducationFoundation of Tigard Breakfast Rotary Club Inc: $35,750 · PhilanthropyFoundation of Tigard…MOUNTAIN WAVE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS INC: $2,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$90,766Education$69,464Philanthropy$35,750Public Safety & Disaster$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTIGARD BOOSTERS CLUB INC: $51,432 over 3y, 12% of budgetChehalem Valley Bmx: $32,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetTIGARD HIGH BAND BOOSTERS: $27,110 over 4y, 49% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF TIGARD FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR TIGARD TUALATIN SCHOOLS: $5,492 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF TIGARD FOOTBALL: $2,674 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTUALATIN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $358 over 3y, 0.3% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Nicoli Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nicoli Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Nicoli Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Nicoli Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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