North Carolina · Private foundation
The Nivison Family 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.
- $665k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 62
- Grants FY2024
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $9,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $119,425
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 58
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $19M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations The Nivison Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 57 | $640k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $882k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $619k | 2% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $597k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $523k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $433k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $277k | 3% |
| FY2017 | 35 | $259k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union Presbyterian Seminary | $619,734 | 5 | n/a |
| Christ Baptist Church | $130,500 | 8 | n/a |
| North Carolina Veterinary Medical Foundation Inc | $90,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $87,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Nc State University | $86,250 | 5 | n/a |
| North Carolina Zoological Society Inc | $85,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc | $81,000 | 8 | 0% |
| LeTourneau University | $75,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wake Technical Community College Foundation | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Meredith College | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Nivison 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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · John William Pope Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Crossroads Fellowship Foundation · O Temple Sloan Jr Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Fidelity Foundation
How this is measured
About The Nivison Family Foundation
- How much does The Nivison Family Foundation give?
- The Nivison Family Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $665,425 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 58 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Nivison Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (35%), Religion (18%), Animals (10%).
- Who are The Nivison Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Union Presbyterian Seminary ($620k), Christ Baptist Church ($131k), North Carolina Veterinary Medical Foundation Inc ($90k).
- Does The Nivison Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Nivison Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Nivison Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation.
- Where is The Nivison Family Foundation based?
- The Nivison Family Foundation is based in NC.
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