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Hoellein McMickell Family Foundation at a glance

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Hoellein McMickell 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.

$96k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$611kEnvironment$50kAnimals$45kRecreation & Sports$25kArts & Culture$16kHousing & Shelter$7kYouth Development$1k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME GIFT MANAGEMENT$75,000
LEWA WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY$10,000
GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY$10,000
GIRLS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY$1,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DESERT STAGES THEATRE: $5k → 11%OUR FAMILY SERVICES: $7k → 15%GIRLS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY: $1k → 11%WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $45k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESIDENT'S CIRCLE: $25k → 13%GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY: $10k → 6%DESERT STAGES THEATRE: $5k → 11%WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $45k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME GIFT MANAGEMENT: $75k → 13%Galapagos Conservancy: $5k → 6%THE CHALLENTER LEARNING CENTER: $40k → 11%WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $45k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME SORIN SOC: $25k → 13%GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY: $5k → 6%THE CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER: $750 → 11%Weber State University: $45k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME GIFT MANAGEMENT: $25k → 13%GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY: $5k → 6%PHOENIX BALLET: $6k → 11%WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $45k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME GIFT MANAGEMENT: $25k → 13%GALAPAGOS CONSERVACY: $5k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME GIFT MANAGEMENT: $25k → 13%GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY: $5k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME GIFT MANAGEMENT: $25k → 13%GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY: $5k → 6%University of Notre Dame: $25k → 13%GALAPAGOS CONSERVACY: $5k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME SORIN SOC: $20k → 13%GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY: $5k → 6%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.
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.
$650k · 7 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$650k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+58%

Still filing today

57%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% 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
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • WS
    WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2022 · $225k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME GIFT MANAGEMENT
    5× · 2021–2025 · $175k
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHALLENTER LEARNING CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $40k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESIDENT'S CIRCLE
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • OF
    Our Family Services Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +33%
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
Arizona Theatre Company

ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.

Arts & Culture
2
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
3
The Wildlands Conservancy

The Wildlands Conservancy's dual mission is to preserve the beauty and biodiversity of the earth and to provide programs so that children may know the wonder and joy of nature.

Environment
4
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
5
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
6
Tucson Symphony Society

The mission of the Tucson Symphony is to build and enrich community through the experience of live music of the highest quality.

Arts & Culture
7
American Geosciences Institute

The American Geosciences Institute represents and serves the geoscience community by providing collaborative leadership and information to connect Earth, science, and people.

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8
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
9
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
10
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
11
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
12
Cala Alliance

CelebracinArtstica de lasAmricas(CALA)Alliancecollaborates with artists and arts organizations to nurture artistic talent, focusing onartistsfrom the Latin American diaspora.Through innovative artist residencies, commissions, community…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University; the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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

8 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. 8 of the 14 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $225,000 · OtherWEBER STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME GIFT MANAGEMENT: $175,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME GIFT MANAGEMENTGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC: $50,000 · OtherGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INCUNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME SORIN SOC: $45,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME SORIN SOCTHE CHALLENTER LEARNING CENTER: $40,000 · OtherTHE CHALLENTER LEARNING CENTERUNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESIDENT'S CIRCLE: $25,000 · Other+4 more: $14,750 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIV…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $25,000 · EducationUniversity of Notr…Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $45,000 · AnimalsDesert Stages Inc: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$574,750Education$125,000Animals$45,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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 budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC: $50,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $45,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDesert Stages Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOur Family Services Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET & FRIENDS DBA PHOENIX BALLET: $6,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe YouthVantage Alliance: $1,000 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 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds Desert Stages Inc ↗
  • Who funds Our Family Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds BALLET & FRIENDS DBA PHOENIX BALLET ↗
  • Who funds The YouthVantage Alliance ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hoellein McMickell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hoellein McMickell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 14 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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