· Private foundation
Hackett Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $11,040 |
| THE ROSE | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON | $10,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF HOUSTON | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC | $5,000 |
| ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC | $5,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON | $5,000 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $4,500 |
| EQUESTRIAN ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE OF JERUSALE | $4,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL OF HOUSTON INC | $2,500 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Hackett Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
AFP FOUNDATION FOR PHILANTHROPY2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +43%- MMMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS5× · 2018–2023 · $50k · revenue +99%
United Way of Greater Houston5× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- IUINDIANA UNIVERSITY - PURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLISone grant, 2017 · $200k
- OMONE MINDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $76k · revenue +219%
- TATHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +30%
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.
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.
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
How this is measured
103 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. 103 of the 174 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Harris County Hospital District Foundation ↗
- Who funds AFP FOUNDATION FOR PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds ONE MIND ↗
- Who funds MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Contemporary Arts Museum Houston ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds ALLEY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROSE ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF YAHWEH INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds A SAFE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Mental Health America of Greater Houston Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · The Elkins Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hackett Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hackett Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- A Safe Place Inc: 45% of income from government
- New England Life Flight Inc: 5% of income from government
- Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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