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Hammack Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$225k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$624kCivil Rights$411kHuman Services$225kCrime & Legal$118kRecreation & Sports$101kPhilanthropy$5k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $205k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%LIVING WATERS PUBLICATION: $20k → 14%FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $140k → 5%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $25k → 11%A TIME TO REVIVE: $10k → 14%AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE: $25k → 10%LIVING WATERS PUBLICATION: $20k → 14%FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $41k → 5%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $39k → 11%UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $35k → 14%AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE: $10k → 10%LIVING WATERS PUBLICATION: $20k → 14%FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $40k → 5%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $30k → 11%UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $30k → 14%AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE: $10k → 10%LIVING WATERS PUBLICATION: $20k → 14%FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $40k → 5%UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $25k → 14%AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE: $10k → 10%LIVING WATERS PUBLICATION: $15k → 14%FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $40k → 5%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%LIVING WATERS PUBLICATION: $13k → 14%FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUE: $25k → 5%UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $25k → 14%LIVING WATERS PUBLICATION: $13k → 14%FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUE: $10k → 5%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%LIVING WATERS PUBLICATION: $13k → 14%FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUE: $10k → 5%UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $25k → 14%LIVING WATERS PUBLICATION: $10k → 14%FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUE: $10k → 5%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $20k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $15k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $10k → 14%CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH: $23k → 14%CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH: $20k → 14%CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH: $15k → 14%CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH: $13k → 14%PRACTICE MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%PRACTICE MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%PRACTICE MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%PRACTICE MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%PRACTICE MINISTRIES: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 14 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
1

Total granted

$1.5M
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
0%

Still filing today

57%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionCivil RightsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FL
    FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $356k · revenue +98%
  • GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +86%
  • LW
    LIVING WATERS PUBLICATIONS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • TD
    THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHARITIES
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
2
Kingdom Advisors Inc

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…

Religion
3
Walk Thru the Bible Ministries Inc

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.

Religion
4
Lou Engle Ministries

Advancing the kingdom of god through prayer,preaching and teaching.

Religion
5
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
6
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
7
Robby Dawkins Ministry

Spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
8
The Family Radio Network Inc

The family broadcasts the hope of jesus christ to strengthen and encourage listeners.

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9
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
10
Freedom That Lasts Ministries

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.

Human Services
11
Time of Grace Ministry

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…

Religion
12
Baptist Standard Publishing Co

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…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Family Association Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $356,000 · Civil RightsFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTEAMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $65,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUST…UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $185,000 · OtherUNION GOSPEL MISSIONFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $94,000 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLET…CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH: $70,700 · OtherCANAAN BAPTIST CHURCHVIA FKA CENTER FOR MISSION MOBILIZATION: $45,000 · OtherVIA FKA CENTER FOR MISSION MOB…LIVING WATERS PUBLICATIONS: $142,500 · ReligionLIVING WATERS PUBLICATIONSA Time to Revive: $70,000 · ReligionA Time to ReviveAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC: $60,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION …Practice Ministries Inc: $55,500 · ReligionPractice Ministries IncREJOICE MARRIAGE MINISTRIES INC: $40,000 · ReligionREJOICE MARRIAGE MINISTRIES …GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR TH…DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOUNDATION: $62,500 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS MORNING NEWS CHARITIES: $5,000 · PhilanthropyHIGHLAND PARK SPORTS CLUB: $6,750 · Education
Civil Rights$421,000Other$394,700Religion$368,000Human Services$225,000Philanthropy$67,500Education$6,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $356,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $225,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING WATERS PUBLICATIONS: $142,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetA Time to Revive: $70,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $65,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOUNDATION: $62,500 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPractice Ministries Inc: $55,500 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetREJOICE MARRIAGE MINISTRIES INC: $40,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Communities Foundatio…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hammack Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hammack Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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