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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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $262k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $491k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
| WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY | $100,000 |
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $90,500 |
| DESIGN MUSEUM IN CHICAGO | $75,000 |
| MADISON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $39,500 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE | $30,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHILD CENTER | $25,000 |
| PINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $15,000 |
| FOOTBALL ALUMNI OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| SANTA CLAUS GIRLS | $15,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN | $15,000 |
| REFUGEE EDUCATION CENTER | $12,500 |
| HAND 2 HAND | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 19 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- EKEASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $375k
- WMWEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY2× · 2022–2025 · $125k
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHILD CENTER2× · 2024–2025 · $50k
Funded once
- GRGRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -42%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +10%
- HSHEAD STRONG PROJECT INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…
The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.
Freedom House Detroit's mission is to "Support and empower refugees, asylum seekers, and others seeking humanitarian protection on their journey to safety, security, and freedom by providing comprehensive services in an inclusive and…
Heartland alliance health's mission is to transform healthcare for the most vulnerable, particularly people experiencing homelessness, mental illness or addictions, or struggling with multiple chronic illnesses, improving health for all…
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
Henry ford health macomb hospital (hfmh) is an affiliate of henry ford health system dba henry ford health ("hf health") serving the northeastern metropolitan detroit michigan communities. as an integrated component of one of the nation's…
Community of hope's mission is to improve health, end homelessness, and partner with communities to make washington, dc more equitable.
CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.
Hospice provides care from the heart to fulfill the unique needs of patients and families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action House and the most unlike its peers is Madison County Food Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Design Museum of Chicago ↗
- Who funds MADISON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOTBALL ALUMNI OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds The Refugee Education Center ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HAND2HAND ↗
- Who funds Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 2540 HEARTSIDE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The Chicago Community Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Hackett Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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