· Private foundation
Hammack 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE | $41,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $39,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $35,000 |
| VIA FKA CENTER FOR MISSION MOBILIZATION | $30,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $25,000 |
| CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| LIVING WATERS PUBLICATION | $15,000 |
| REJOICE MARRIAGE MINISTRIES INC | $7,500 |
| PRACTICE MINISTRIES | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FLFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $356k · revenue +98%
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +86%- LWLIVING WATERS PUBLICATIONS9× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- TDTHE DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHARITIESone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
Advancing the kingdom of god through prayer,preaching and teaching.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ
The family broadcasts the hope of jesus christ to strengthen and encourage listeners.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Ftlm seeks to equip churches to minister to those who are suffering from addiction and equip christians with the resources needed to facilitate spiritual growth in christlike character and biblical wisdom.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
The Corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable,religious and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the corresponding provision or…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Family Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Dallas Morning News Charities. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 15 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 FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING WATERS PUBLICATIONS ↗
- Who funds A Time to Revive ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Practice Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds REJOICE MARRIAGE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK SPORTS CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHARITIES ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Hammack 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.