· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LIGHTSHINE CANINE | $5,000 |
| JPII NEWMAN CENTER | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES | $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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| ST BERNARD CATHOLIC CHURCH | $3,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- COCOLLEGE OF SAINT MARY4× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +14%
- CFCUES FUND3× · 2021–2023 · $18k · revenue +57%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +97%
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 47 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 COLLEGE OF SAINT MARY ↗
- Who funds CUES FUND ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BIG GARDEN ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST DOG RESCUE NETWORK 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 CANYON CREEK WOMENS CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PERMACULTURE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hickey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hickey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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