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Hicks Charitable Foundation
Its FY2021 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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHNS CATHEDRAL | $50,075 |
| KIPP JAX SCHOOL | $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 (FY17–17, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2021, 16 since wound down.
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 FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SJST JOHNS RIVERKEEPER INC4× · 2017–2020 · $16k · revenue +51%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2019 · $13k · revenue +13%
- CACATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT INC2× · 2018–2019 · $700 · revenue +134%
Funded once
- TBTHE BOLLES SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +51%
- UWUNITED WAY OF NE FLone grant, 2018 · $50k
- KJKIPP JACKSONVILLE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +232%
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.
The mission of episcopal school of jacksonville is to provide a superior college-preparatory education in an environment marked by high expectation, christian nurture, and social diversity. through a balanced program of academics, arts and…
Jpef activates community support, connects partners, and advances effective ideas for the success of allstudents.
Our mission is to empower students for life-long growth as global citizens through a transformative, innovative educational experience, built on excellence in community-centered service. We accomplish this mission in a small,…
University of florida jacksonville physicians, inc. is dedicated to making a difference in the lives of those we serve by providing exceptional and innovative practice management in support of the university of florida college of medicine…
Canterbury school is pk3-12, coeducational, college preparatory day school with approximately 650 students. the school is dedicated to academic excellence within a caring and supportive community emphasizing character, leadership and…
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
To surround students at risk of dropping out with caring adults embedded in schools who provide a community of support with safe places to learn and grow, a focus on graduation to ensure successful futures with a marketable skills, and…
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
The organization's mission is to bring academic, work, life and economic opportunities to students whose potential to contribute to a robust florida is largely untapped.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wjct Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thou Art Exalted Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 48 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 Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOLLES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KIPP JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHNS RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL PARK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THOU ART EXALTED INC ↗
- Who funds WJCT INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Her Song Jacksonville Inc ↗
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 Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust · Pga Tour Inc · The Haskell Foundation · The Thomas M and Irene Kirbo Charitable Foundation · Berg Family Charitable Foundation · Charity Inc · River Branch Foundation · Winston Family Foundation · The Jim and Tabitha Furyk Foundation · The Schultz Foundation Inc
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 Hicks Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kipp Jacksonville Inc — 7% of income from government
- Groundwork Jacksonville Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cathedral Arts Project Inc — 1% of income from government
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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