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Hickey 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCHDIOCESE OF OMAHA | $22,000 |
| SERVANTS OF MARY DEVELOPMENT | $12,000 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE OF ST MARY | $10,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE INDIAN MISSION | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| LIGHTSHINE CANINE | $5,000 |
| JPII NEWMAN CENTER | $5,000 |
| CIRCLE THEATRE | $5,000 |
| NOTRE DAME SISTERS - PROUD LEGACY | $4,000 |
| RONCALLI CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA | $3,000 |
| ST BERNARD CATHOLIC CHURCH | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| KINO BODER INITIATIVE | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 56% 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- COCOLLEGE OF SAINT MARY4× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +14%
- CFCUES FUND3× · 2021–2023 · $18k · revenue +57%
- CTCIRCLE THEATRE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF IOWAone grant, 2021 · $48k
- BSBRIDIT SAINT BRIGIT THEATREone grant, 2024 · $9k
- BSBRIGIT ST BRIGIT THEATRE COMPANYone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -1%
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.
Operation of an animal shelter for unwanted and abandoned animals, community education to encourage humane treatment and responsible ownership.
We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.
Retrieve a golden of the midwest (ragom) rescues, fosters, and rehomes golden retrievers and golden mixes that can no longer remain in their current environments. the organization ensures each dog receives necessary veterinary care and…
To protect and nurture companion animals and enrich the lives of people who love them.
The museum of nebraska art (mona) celebrates the history of nebraska's visual art for diverse audiences. mona collects, preserves, researches, exhibits, and interprets the work of artists who were born, lived, trained, or worked in…
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.
Cherishing life's journey through an extraordinary commitment to compassion, comfort and holistic care.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
Delivering community-based care that provides peace of mind, quality of life and independence.
We believe in thoughtful, ecologically-minded practices and the curation of accessible, educational, and inspirational experiences that enhance lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Visiting Nurse Association of the Midlands and the most unlike its peers is Bellevue University Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 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. 21 of the 47 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 COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY ↗
- Who funds CUES FUND ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BIG GARDEN ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST DOG RESCUE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGIT ST BRIGIT THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Adopt-A-Native Elder ↗
- Who funds JOSLYN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Lightshine Canine Inc ↗
- Who funds RSQ ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PERMACULTURE ↗
- Who funds CANYON CREEK WOMENS CRISIS CENTER ↗
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: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Claire M Hubbard Foundation · Amy L Scott Family Foundation · Cl Werner Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation
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 Hickey 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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