Nicholl Family Foundation

• The foundation does not accept unsolicited requests and says it makes contributions only to organisations it has preselected, so a cold application is unlikely to be considered.
• Its filing states no funding field, applicant eligibility or selection criteria, so fit can only be judged from its past recipients, which include universities, hospitals, a school, homelessness and hospice charities, a children's camp, a wheelchair mission, religious organisations and an animal rescue.
• If you are already known to the foundation, a request near $20,000 sits at the median grant, and about 8 in 10 of its grants fall between $10,000 and $100,000, though its largest grant was $750,000, so that band is typical rather than a ceiling.
• Repeat recipients account for 98% of its grant dollars to organisations in the latest filing, so its giving is largely to organisations it has already funded, and a small charity should not spend time on an unsolicited application.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Johns Hopkins University · Donation
  $750,0002024 tax year
• University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation · Donation
  $200,0002024 tax year
• MedStar Union Memorial Hospital · Donation
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Mother Seton Academy · Donation
  $100,0002024 tax year
• St Jude Children's Research Hospital · Donation
  $50,0002024 tax year
• Healthcare for the Homeless · Donation
  $25,0002024 tax year
• Free Wheelchair Mission · Donation
  $20,0002024 tax year
• Carter Center · Donation
  $20,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.