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HENRY T NICHOLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

HENRY T NICHOLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,449,001 to it, the largest being HENRY T NICHOLAS III FOUNDATION ($39,408,479). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$7.2M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$39M
Net assets
$452k
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 92%
01What it does

What Henry T Nicholas Education Foundation Inc does

Program

  1. The foundation currently operates three facilities in santa ana thatprovide tutorial and mentoring services to adolescents, typicallyages 14-19 that attend high school in the santa ana unified schooldistrict and surrounding districts. The program assists participantsin developing necessary skills to increase the quality of theiracademic performance, to gain admission and graduate frominstitutions of higher learning, to earn scholarships and grants, andto lead active and successful lives in pursuit of their chosen fieldsor professions. Activities include tutoring in high school curriculumand job interests, counseling to help resolve family and communityissues and conflicts, cultural enrichment programs, preparatorytraining for part-time jobs, college application and entrance exams,with a focus on keeping these teenagers interested and active in acollege education and curriculum. The centers currently serveapproximately 415 students monday through friday and supports anadditional 605 enr

    $6,501,210 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($4.7M) Expenses 100 ($4.6M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 95 ($4.5M) Expenses 116 ($5.3M) Net assets 25 ($288k)2020 Revenue 110 ($5.2M) Expenses 98 ($4.5M) Net assets 83 ($947k)2021 Revenue 117 ($5.5M) Expenses 130 ($6.0M) Net assets 43 ($489k)2022 Revenue 145 ($6.8M) Expenses 153 ($7.0M) Net assets 23 ($266k)2023 Revenue 168 ($7.9M) Expenses 162 ($7.4M) Net assets 63 ($720k)2024 Revenue 152 ($7.2M) Expenses 162 ($7.4M) Net assets 40 ($452k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (152)Expenses (162)Net assets (40)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.4M to $524k (−63%).

$1.4M
$524k
$1.2M
$713k
$729k
$1.2M
$1.4M
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Michael Newman

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed10999778
Joined·+2+3+0+0+2+1
No longer listed·330220
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $3.3M → $7.2M.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of HENRY T NICHOLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

HENRY T NICHOLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of HENRY T NICHOLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HENRY T NICHOLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds HENRY T NICHOLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
HENRY T NICHOLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,449,001 to it, the largest being HENRY T NICHOLAS III FOUNDATION ($39,408,479). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HENRY T NICHOLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $39,449,001 in grants to HENRY T NICHOLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HENRY T NICHOLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
HENRY T NICHOLAS III FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $39,408,479 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HENRY T NICHOLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing