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Hickok Family Foundation F/K/A John D Hickok Foundation at a glance

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Hickok Family Foundation F/K/A John D Hickok Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$61kHealth$41kEducation$24kHuman Services$22kYouth Development$22kFood & Nutrition$14kHousing & Shelter$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$520
Median grant
6
States reached
$468k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY$4,734
THE SALVATION ARMY$3,500
STARLIGHT THEATER$3,000
HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK$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
PAWSITIVE TAILS$500
FEEDING AMERICA$500
CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL$500
CANINE ASSISTANTS$500
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CANINE ASSISTANTS: $1k → 13%THERE WITH CARE: $104 → 12%CANINE ASSISTANTS: $500 → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OH
NJ
CA
CO
MO
KS
TN
NC
GA
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$209k · 41 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
30

Total granted

$209k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+25%

Still filing today

66%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
HealthAnimalsEducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • JB
    JEWEL BALL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +816%
  • BB
    Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City
    6× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +109%
  • HT
    HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK
    6× · 2019–2025 · $12k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • CP
    CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +71%
  • HO
    HEART OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -32%
  • SK
    SHELTER KCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +26%
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
Kansas City Pet Project

Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.

Animals
2
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
3
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
4
Chain of Hope Kc

Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.

Animals
5
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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6
Bike Share Kc

Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.

Human Services
7
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc

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.

Health
8
Kitty City Kansas Rescue Incorporated

Find homes for homeless cats through adoptions

Animals
9
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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.

Health
10
Kansas Children's Service League Foundation

To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.

Philanthropy
11
Kansas Bioscience Organization Inc

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…

Education
12
Spay & Neuter Kansas City D/B/a Pet Resource Center of Kansas City

To decrease pet homelessness, increase pet retention and improve the quality of life for pets through education and supportive services for families in need.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter Kc; 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.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 72 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
32/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $18,070 · OtherSALVATION ARMYBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City: $16,259 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas CityKEMPER MUSEUM: $14,500 · OtherKEMPER MUSEUMIndividual grant recipient: $12,512 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM: $9,600 · OtherTHE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUMLITERACY KANSAS CITY: $8,500 · OtherLITERACY KANSAS CITYKansas City CARE Clinic: $8,200 · OtherKansas City CARE ClinicSTARLIGHT THEATER: $6,000 · OtherTCU: $4,700 · Other+40 more: $42,133 · Other+40 moreJEWEL BALL: $26,900 · Arts & CultureJEWEL BALLYOUTH AMBASSADORS INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureYOUTH AMBASSAD…BRADENS HOPE FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER INC: $6,750 · HealthBRADENS HOP…The Children's Mercy Hospital: $6,145 · HealthThe Childre…LEVELUP KIDS INC: $3,000 · HealthLEVELUP KID…Welcome House Inc: $2,250 · HealthWelcome Hou…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · HealthCROHN'S & C…Ronald McDonald House Global: $1,450 · HealthRonald McDo…TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER INCORPORATED: $1,000 · Health+4 more: $1,950 · Health+4 moreHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $12,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $450 · Food & NutritionHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY: $6,100 · Housing & ShelterCity Union Mission: $2,450 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER KC: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterUNIVERSITY ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY ACADEMY: $3,500 · EducationPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL: $1,250 · Education22KILL: $5,525 · Philanthropy
Other$140,474Arts & Culture$29,400Health$24,545Food & Nutrition$14,450Housing & Shelter$10,550Education$9,750Philanthropy$5,525

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWEL BALL: $26,900 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City: $16,259 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY KANSAS CITY: $8,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKansas City CARE Clinic: $8,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBRADENS HOPE FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER INC: $6,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $6,145 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY: $6,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budget22KILL: $5,525 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY ACADEMY: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEVELUP KIDS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH AMBASSADORS INC: $2,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCity Union Mission: $2,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $2,265 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWelcome House Inc: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER KC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE ASSISTANTS INC: $1,787 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $1,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT PLAINS SPCA: $850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEWHOUSE INC: $656 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DESMOID TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAWSITIVE TAILS DOG RESCUE: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPETS FOR LIFE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGING THE GAP INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ABILITY EXPERIENCE: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER KC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING WORKS INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetK C English Bulldog Rescue: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

Greater Kansas City C…United Way of Greater…Oppenstein Brothers F…Victor E Speas Founda…The Shumaker Family F…Bluescope Foundation …William T Kemper Foun…Greater HorizonsJewish Community Foun…Health Forward Founda…The Sunderland Founda…The Curry Family Foun…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO42× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hickok Family Foundation F/K/A John D Hickok Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hickok Family Foundation F/K/A John D Hickok Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 72 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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