· Private foundation
Thomas R Nickoloff Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $174k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAY CENTER | $76,382 |
| NDI NEW MEXICO | $40,000 |
| EXCELLENT SCHOOLS NEW MEXICO | $30,000 |
| READING QUEST | $25,450 |
| THE LEARNING ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES | $16,000 |
| NEW MEXICO LITERACY INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| NM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS | $12,500 |
| SANTA FE CHRISTIAN | $10,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH SANTA FE | $6,000 |
| TAILHEAD INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TEACH PLUS | $5,000 |
| RIO GRANDE SCHOOL | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- ESExcellent Schools New Mexico6× · 2019–2025 · $221k · revenue +17%
- TLTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC4× · 2020–2025 · $85k · revenue +10%
- RQREADING QUEST5× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +179%
Funded once
- MNMentoringKidsWorks NMone grant, 2021 · $32k · revenue -83%
- NONDI of New Mexicoone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CECATALYST EDUCATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Our mission is to inspire excellence in education and learning in northern new mexico through innovative programming, collaboration and advocacy.
To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.
The Learning Policy Institute (LPI) conducts and disseminates independent, high-quality research to improve learning for all children. A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, LPI connects policymakers and stakeholders at the local, state,…
The Center is dedicated to providing tools the nation needs to lead the world in education & training in a swiftly globalizing world economy.
To elevate the profession of teaching, to secure effective cooperation of all agencies for improving schools, and to promote the advancement of the educator professionally, economically, and socially.
Social and emotional learning (SEL) is integral to human development and education. Through reliable developmental relationships, young people learn who they are and imagine who they might become as healthy, contributing adults in their…
At Discovery School, our mission is to inspire and nurture the love of learning in young children and their families. The School offers an enhanced early childhood education for children 2 through 7 years to provide them with the skills…
Future focused education's mission is to co-create systems of equity to sustain healthier and more prosperous communities for those who need it the most. we envision schools as sites of innovation and opportunity, where young people become…
The mission of strong start academy elementary school (ssaes) is to provide equitable, high-quality academics as we prepare our bilingual, civic-minded thinkers to maximize their potential in their community and the world. saes is…
To champion equitable educational opportunities that honor and leverage the diverse linguistic and cultural assets of every learner. defender oportunidades educativas equitativas que honren y aprovechen los diversos recursos lingsticos y…
Manzano day school is dedicated to innovative child-centered education, excellence in teaching, and joy in learning to prepare children for a life of discovery and community involvement in our diverse world.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Council On Teacher Quality Inc and the most unlike its peers is Growing Up New Mexicoinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 28 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.
- Who funds THE NEW MEXICO LITERACY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Excellent Schools New Mexico ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds READING QUEST ↗
- Who funds MentoringKidsWorks NM ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CHRISTIAN ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHAMA VALLEY ARTS ↗
- Who funds TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE RIO GRANDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL ON TEACHER QUALITY INC ↗
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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Daniels Fund · Thornburg Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Thomas R Nickoloff Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 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.