New York · Nonprofit
NICHOLAS CENTER LTD
NICHOLAS CENTER LTD (New York) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,419,099 to it, the largest being THE TAFT FOUNDATION ($620,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Nicholas Center Ltd does
Mission
To create innovative programs and services that allow autistic individuals to learn, live, and work in the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
A life-skills center and opwdd provider agency dedicated to assisting individuals with autism and similar disorders in leading fuller independent lives. During the year ended june 30, 2025, the nicholas center provided 228,568 units of community based prevocational training, 5,291 units of pathway to employment training, 40,383 units of supported employment, 180,101 units of community rehabilitation, and 10,978 units of community habilitation residential services.
$4,854,552 spent$4,929,438 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,854,552.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $4.7M to $6.6M (+38%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 3% · 2022 2% · 2023 4% · 2024 4% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of NICHOLAS CENTER LTD’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
Chief executive
Nicole Ferrara
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $10k → $540k.
11 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 NICHOLAS CENTER LTD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 funders by total. 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
NICHOLAS CENTER LTD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
30% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund NICHOLAS CENTER LTD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 79% · 2020 45% · 2021 39% · 2022 24% · 2023 26% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
57% of NICHOLAS CENTER LTD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
73% of NICHOLAS CENTER LTD's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $381k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
NICHOLAS CENTER LTD has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NICHOLAS CENTER LTD
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NICHOLAS CENTER LTD: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NICHOLAS CENTER LTD?
- NICHOLAS CENTER LTD (New York) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,419,099 to it, the largest being THE TAFT FOUNDATION ($620,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NICHOLAS CENTER LTD have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $2,419,099 in grants to NICHOLAS CENTER LTD, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NICHOLAS CENTER LTD?
- THE TAFT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $620,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NICHOLAS CENTER LTD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 50 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