· Private foundation
Hickok Family Foundation F/K/A John D Hickok Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $4,734 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $3,500 |
| HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK | $3,000 |
| STARLIGHT THEATER | $3,000 |
| KEMPER MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| THE JEWEL BALL | $1,750 |
| THE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| NEW SKETE MONASTERIES | $1,413 |
| BRADEN'S HOPE FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER | $1,150 |
| TCU | $1,000 |
| KANSAS CITY GIRLS ACADEMY | $520 |
| CANINE ASSISTANTS | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY ACADEMY | $500 |
| PAWSITIVE TAILS | $500 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $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 (FY18–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 1 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; $1k 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
- JBJEWEL BALL9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +816%
- BBBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City6× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +109%
- HTHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK6× · 2019–2025 · $12k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- CPCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +71%
- HOHEART OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -32%
- SKSHELTER KCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +26%
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.
Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities of kansas city is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Find homes for homeless cats through adoptions
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
Biokansas is the unified voice representing the biosciences in kansas. across the human, plant, animal and industrial biosciences, biokansas is focused on enhancing the business and research climate and working with leaders across the…
To decrease pet homelessness, increase pet retention and improve the quality of life for pets through education and supportive services for families in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter Kc and the most unlike its peers is K C English Bulldog Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 72 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 JEWEL BALL ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LITERACY KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds Kansas City CARE Clinic ↗
- Who funds BRADENS HOPE FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds 22KILL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LEVELUP KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds City Union Mission ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Welcome House Inc ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds HEART OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SHELTER KC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE ASSISTANTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL ↗
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Victor E Speas Foundation · The Shumaker Family Foundation · Bluescope Foundation North America · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Greater Horizons · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Health Forward Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · The Curry Family 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 Hickok Family Foundation F/K/A John D Hickok 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.