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Hicks 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$1.2MYouth Development$693kHousing & Shelter$119kFood & Nutrition$55kPhilanthropy$52kHuman Services$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kEducation$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $72k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EISENHOWER HEALTH$1,039,715
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - CENTRAL OREGON$95,000
FIND FOOD BANK$20,000
JOHN F KENNEDY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$11,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
THE BLESSING CENTER INC$10,000
GREATER SOUTH BAY STEM FOUNDATION$10,000
NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LOS ANGELES$9,500
PS I LOVE YOU FOUNDATION$6,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY$5,000
THE CHILDREN'S CABINET$4,000
EDDY HOUSE$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%NW CHILDREN'S OUTREACH: $3k → 8%MOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY: $5k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CABINET: $4k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%MOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY: $5k → 10%EDDY HOUSE: $3k → 10%MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC: $5k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY: $5k → 11%CHILDREN'S INSITUTE INC: $4k → 14%SOUTH BAY CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER ASSOCIATION INC: $3k → 14%SOUTH BAY CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER ASSOCIATION INC: $3k → 14%SOUTH BAY CHILDRENS HEALTH CENTER: $2k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $6k → 14%CHILD FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%COUNSELING RESEARCH & ASSOCIATES INC: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$755k · 16 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
29

Total granted

$755k
$320k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+48%

Still filing today

88%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsEducationOther

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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN
    5× · 2017–2024 · $137k · revenue +277%
  • SHARE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $54k · revenue +115%
  • MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON
    3× · 2017–2021 · $35k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY
    one grant, 2024 · $178k
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +169%
  • CF
    Child Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -7%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Friends of the Children - San Francisco Bay Area

Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.

Education
2
Fotc - Los Angeles

Friends of the children commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…

Education
3
Friends of the Children - Seattle

Friends of the children - seattle has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. youth in the friends…

Youth Development
4
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
5
Friends of the Children - Chicago

Friends of the children - chicago has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Human Services
6
Friends of the Children - Sw Washington

We commit to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from kindergarten through high school…

Youth Development
7
Friends of the Children - Eastern Idaho

Friends of the children eastern idaho has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Human Services
8
Kidworks Community Development Corp

Kidworks inspires purpose in youth, fuels their growth, and catalyzes their impact in the community and the world.

Human Services
9
Friends of the Children - Utah

Friends of the children utah has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Youth Development
10
Friends of the Children Tacoma

Friends of the children - tacoma is a washington based nonprofit with the mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no…

Youth Development
11
A Family for Every Child

A family for every child (affec) is dedicated to finding permanent and loving adoptive families for waiting foster children. to accomplish our mission, we focus on finding loving and permanent families for children who the foster care…

Human Services
12
Friends of the Children - Philadelphia

Friends of the children philadelphia has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Iamangel Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Mission Organizat…Affordable Housing & Reside…Buddhist Temples and Medita…Law Enforcement Employee As…Healthcare Delivery Organiz…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%4%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr17%38%20–35yr10%19%35–55yr12%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr10%9%35–55yr12%65%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
16%
10,501/67,499

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.

04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 56 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
32/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Eisenhower Medical Center — $1,039,715 · HealthEisenhower Medical Center+3 more — $63,000 · Health+3 moreFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- CENTRAL OREGON — $295,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $136,700 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND — $25,500 · Youth Development+4 more — $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY — $177,750 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHILDR…SHARE — $53,500 · OtherSHAREFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC DBA FIND FOOD BANK — $25,000 · OtherFOOD IN NEED OF DISTR…SERVINGUNDERSERVED INC — $16,000 · OtherEvery Kid Sports — $14,250 · Other+20 more — $122,000 · Other+20 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $20,000 · Human ServicesChild Foundation — $10,000 · Human ServicesMOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY — $10,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH BAY CHILDRENS HEALTH CENTER — $7,500 · Human ServicesSAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WASHINGTON COUNTY — $5,000 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC — $3,500 · Human ServicesEDDY HOUSE — $3,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST CHILDRENS OUTREACH — $3,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE BLESSING CENTER INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $16,000 · PhilanthropyIAMANGEL Foundation — $10,000 · PhilanthropyPS I Love You Foundation — $6,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,500 · PhilanthropyChildren's Cancer Association — $34,000 · Arts & CultureFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC — $30,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$1,102,715Youth Development$479,700Other$408,500Human Services$84,500Philanthropy$53,500Arts & Culture$34,000Food & Nutrition$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEisenhower Medical Center — $1,039,715 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- CENTRAL OREGON — $295,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $136,700 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSHARE — $53,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON — $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Cancer Association — $34,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND — $25,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITYS CHILD INC — $25,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BLESSING CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSERVINGUNDERSERVED INC — $16,000 over 6y, 56% of budgetEvery Kid Sports — $14,250 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $11,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChild Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBETHLEHEM INN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIAMANGEL Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE SOLA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH BAY CHILDRENS HEALTH CENTER — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMental Health Association of Oregon — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCREATE NOW INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAC PORTLAND — $5,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WASHINGTON COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - COACHELLA VALLEY — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDIG FOR KIDS — $4,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATH HOME — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPortland YouthBuilders — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST FAMILY SERVICES — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDDY HOUSE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST CHILDRENS OUTREACH — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS COLUMBIA NORTHW — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCounseling and Research Associates Inc dba Masada — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTER SOUTH BAY-HARBOR- LONG BEACH — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BEND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Oregon Community …OCF Joseph E Weston P…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Marie Lamfrom Charita…The Autzen FoundationM J Murdock Charitabl…The Robert D and Marc…Onpoint Community Cre…Maybelle Clark Macdon…Deacon Charitable Fou…Juan Young TrustThe Kroger Co Foundat…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR25.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Autzen Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · Onpoint Community Credit Union · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Deacon Charitable Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Kroger Co 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 Hicks Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Mountainstar Family Relief Nursery — 60% of income from government
  • Mental Health Association of Oregon — 41% of income from government
  • Portland YouthBuilders — 35% of income from government
  • Northwest Family Services — 35% of income from government
  • New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children- Central Oregon — 16% of income from government
  • Ac Portland — 14% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
  • Bethlehem Inn — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines