· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TAILHEAD INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| TEACH PLUS | $5,000 |
| RIO GRANDE SCHOOL | $3,000 |
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
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 28 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 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 ↗
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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Daniels Fund · Thornburg Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomas R Nickoloff Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas R Nickoloff Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Learning Alliance Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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