New Jersey · Private foundation
Hickory Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2024
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $19,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 57
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $43M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Hickory Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $390k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 53 | $2.7M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $3.0M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $2.2M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $3.2M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Witherspoon Institute Inc | $1,100,000 | 5 | 9% |
| The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History | $885,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Foundation for Cultural Review | $840,000 | 5 | 6% |
| The Childrens Scholarship Fund | $625,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations | $600,000 | 2 | 0% |
| World Monuments Fund Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 4% |
| LifeFlight Foundation | $465,000 | 4 | 7% |
| The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies | $450,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Special Operations Warrior Foundation | $415,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Brighter Choice Foundation Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 100% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hickory Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · The Armstrong Foundation · The Searle Freedom Trust · Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc · John William Pope Foundation · Triad Foundation Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc · The Legett Foundation
How this is measured
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About Hickory Foundation
- How much does Hickory Foundation give?
- Hickory Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $2,664,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 57 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Hickory Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Education (29%), Civil Rights (12%).
- Who are Hickory Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Witherspoon Institute Inc ($1.1M), The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History ($885k), Foundation for Cultural Review ($840k).
- Does Hickory Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hickory Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hickory Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Bradley Impact Fund Inc, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc.
- Where is Hickory Foundation based?
- Hickory Foundation is based in NJ.
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