New Mexico · 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.
- $283k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $76,382
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Thomas R Nickoloff Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $283k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $267k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $278k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $304k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $292k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $245k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $230k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $10k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The New Mexico Literacy Institute | $557,958 | 4 | 100% |
| Excellent Schools New Mexico | $220,860 | 6 | 8% |
| The Learning Alliance Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Reading Quest | $65,450 | 5 | 6% |
| MentoringKidsWorks NM | $32,040 | 1 | n/a |
| Santa Fe Christian | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Santa Fe Preparatory School | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Blaze Christian Fellowship Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chama Valley Arts | $7,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Trailhead Institute | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The New Mexico Literacy Institute | $557,958 | 4 | 100% |
| Excellent Schools New Mexico | $220,860 | 6 | 8% |
| The Learning Alliance Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Reading Quest | $65,450 | 5 | 6% |
| MentoringKidsWorks NM | $32,040 | 1 | n/a |
| Santa Fe Christian | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Santa Fe Preparatory School | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Blaze Christian Fellowship Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chama Valley Arts | $7,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Trailhead Institute | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Rio Grande School | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Growing Up New Mexicoinc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Philanthropy Roundtable | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| National Council on Teacher Quality Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($890k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Thomas R Nickoloff Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Thomas R Nickoloff Family Foundation
- How much does Thomas R Nickoloff Family Foundation give?
- Thomas R Nickoloff Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $282,832 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Thomas R Nickoloff Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Arts & Culture (29%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Thomas R Nickoloff Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The New Mexico Literacy Institute ($558k), Excellent Schools New Mexico ($221k), The Learning Alliance Inc ($85k).
- Does Thomas R Nickoloff Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thomas R Nickoloff 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 Thomas R Nickoloff Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Fe Community Foundation, Daniels Fund, Thornburg Foundation.
- Where is Thomas R Nickoloff Family Foundation based?
- Thomas R Nickoloff Family Foundation is based in NM.
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