New Hampshire · Nonprofit
OUR PROMISE TO NICHOLAS FOUNDATION
OUR PROMISE TO NICHOLAS FOUNDATION (New Hampshire) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,980 to it, the largest being NOAH'S HOPE - HOPE 4 BRIDGET FOUNDATION ($30,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $83k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $82k
- Net assets
- $163k
What Our Promise to Nicholas Foundation does
Mission
Funding research to find a cure for battens disease.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Funding provided for battens disease research and to support conferences that educate families and the medical community about this disease.
$56,820 spentof which $48,305 as grants78% of program spendingTo provide support to families with children battling battens disease.
$16,312 spent22% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $73,132.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $216k to $163k (−25%).
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.
99% of OUR PROMISE TO NICHOLAS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Heather Dainiak
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $6k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 OUR PROMISE TO NICHOLAS FOUNDATION’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
OUR PROMISE TO NICHOLAS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 OUR PROMISE TO NICHOLAS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 57% · 2020 54% · 2021 76% · 2022 40% · 2023 53% — 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.
Where its funders are
OUR PROMISE TO NICHOLAS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Hampshire, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $980 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
OUR PROMISE TO NICHOLAS FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like OUR PROMISE TO NICHOLAS FOUNDATION
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 Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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 OUR PROMISE TO NICHOLAS FOUNDATION: 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 OUR PROMISE TO NICHOLAS FOUNDATION?
- OUR PROMISE TO NICHOLAS FOUNDATION (New Hampshire) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,980 to it, the largest being NOAH'S HOPE - HOPE 4 BRIDGET FOUNDATION ($30,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OUR PROMISE TO NICHOLAS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $81,980 in grants to OUR PROMISE TO NICHOLAS FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OUR PROMISE TO NICHOLAS FOUNDATION?
- NOAH'S HOPE - HOPE 4 BRIDGET FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OUR PROMISE TO NICHOLAS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 2017–2025), 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