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Xavier-Nichols Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Xavier-Nichols 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.

$132k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$60k
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, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$214kRecreation & Sports$200kReligion$60kHealth$27kEducation$23kArts & Culture$5kHousing & Shelter$3k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ZELIE'S HOME$60,000
SPARTAN ALUMNI ROWING ASSOC$50,000
THE JOE BAAB CULINARY FIGHTS CANCER$22,000
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC: $2k → 15%ORCHARD LAKE SCHOOLS: $10k → 8%SOLANUS CASEY CENTER: $500 → 21%THE JOE BAAB CULINARY FIGHTS CANCER: $22k → 6%ST PASCHAL BAYLON: $10k → 17%ORCHARD LAKE SCHOOL: $650 → 8%POOR CLARES PERPETUAL ADORATION: $10k → 17%POOR CLARES PERPETUAL ADORATION: $10k → 17%PLAYHOUSE SQUARE: $3k → 17%POOR CLARES PERPETUAL ADORATION: $5k → 17%HONDURAN CHILDREN'S RESCUE FUND: $500 → 17%JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY: $230 → 17%JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY: $190 → 17%JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY: $190 → 17%CLEVELAND ROWING FOUNDATION: $60k → 17%CLEVELAND ROWING FOUNDATION: $60k → 17%SPARTAN ALUMNI ROWING ASSOC: $50k → 17%SPARTAN ALUMNI ROWING ASSOC: $20k → 17%SPARTAN ALUMNI ROWING ASSOC: $10k → 17%SHRINE OF THE CONVERSION OF ST PAUL: $5k → 17%ZELIE'S HOME: $62k → 17%ZELIE'S HOME: $60k → 17%ZELIE'S HOME: $50k → 17%ZELIE'S HOME: $41k → 17%ST JOHN CATHEDRAL: $10k → 17%ST JOHN CATHEDRAL: $10k → 17%ST JOSEPH ACADEMY: $10k → 17%MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION: $3k → 17%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$458k · 6 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +215% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

$458k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+215%
+42%

Still filing today

67%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • ZH
    ZELIE'S HOME
    4× · 2020–2023 · $213k · revenue +215%
  • CR
    CLEVELAND ROWING FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $120k · revenue +211%
  • SA
    SPARTAN ALUMNI ROWING ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $80k · revenue +387% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • OL
    ORCHARD LAKE SCHOOLS SAINT MARY S PREP AND POLISH INSTITUE OF CULTUR
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $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.

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
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
2
Siena University

Siena university is a learning community advancing the ideals of a liberal arts education, rooted in its identity as a franciscan and catholic institution. as a learning community, siena is committed to a student-centered education…

Education
3
Sooner Rowing Association
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4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Alvernia University

Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.

—
6
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education
7
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

—
8
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
9
Carlow University

See schedule o.carlow university, rooted in its catholic identity and embodying the heritage and values of the sisters of mercy, offers transformational educational opportunities for a diverse community of learners and empowers them to…

Education
10
Marian University

To be a great catholic university dedicated to excellence in learning, achieved by teaching, research, & scholarly activities in franciscan & liberal arts tradition.

Education
11
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

—
12
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Rowing Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Honduran Childrens Rescue Fund. 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

8 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. 8 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND ROWING FOUNDATION: $120,000 · OtherCLEVELAND ROWING FOUNDATIONPOOR CLARES PERPETUAL ADORATION: $25,000 · OtherPOOR CLARES PERPETUAL ADORATIONTHE JOE BAAB CULINARY FIGHTS CANCER: $22,000 · OtherTHE JOE BAAB CULINARY FIGHTS CANCERIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientORCHARD LAKE SCHOOLS SAINT MARY S PREP AND POLISH INSTITUE OF CULTUR: $10,150 · OtherST JOSEPH ACADEMY: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+5 more: $13,650 · Other+5 moreZELIE'S HOME: $212,514 · Housing & ShelterZELIE'S HOMESPARTAN ALUMNI ROWING ASSOCIATION: $80,000 · Recreation & SportsSPARTAN ALUMNI RO…LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $2,000 · EducationJohn Carroll University: $610 · EducationMAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesThe Musical Arts Association: $2,500 · Arts & CultureHONDURAN CHILDRENS RESCUE FUND: $500 · International
Other$230,800Housing & Shelter$212,514Recreation & Sports$80,000Education$2,610Human Services$2,500Arts & Culture$2,500International$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetZELIE'S HOME: $212,514 over 4y, 11% of budgetCLEVELAND ROWING FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetSPARTAN ALUMNI ROWING ASSOCIATION: $80,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetMAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Carroll University: $610 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ZELIE'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND ROWING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SPARTAN ALUMNI ROWING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MAGGIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
  • Who funds LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds John Carroll University ↗
  • Who funds HONDURAN CHILDRENS RESCUE FUND ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Xavier-Nichols Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Xavier-Nichols Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 Xavier-Nichols Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Xavier-Nichols 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 19 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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