Virginia · Private foundation
Hooker 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.
- $46k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $440k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Hooker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $46k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $43k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $38k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $36k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $42k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $19k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $19k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $19k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safetynet Inc | $20,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of the Blue Ridge Inc | $17,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Carlisle School | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| MARC Workshop Inc | $9,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Blue Ridge Regional Library Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Adult Day Care of Martinsville & Henry County | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Christmas Cheer Inc | $5,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Martinsville-Henry County Historical Society | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
| TheatreWorks Community Players Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Smith River Singers | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($196k), not named here.
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: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Irving and Jett Groves Charitable Foundation · The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Hooker Foundation
- How much does Hooker Foundation give?
- Hooker Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $46,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hooker Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (18%), Religion (16%), Youth Development (16%).
- Who are Hooker Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Safetynet Inc ($20k), Boys and Girls Clubs of the Blue Ridge Inc ($18k), Carlisle School ($15k).
- Does Hooker Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hooker 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 Hooker Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia, Irving and Jett Groves Charitable Foundation, The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont.
- Where is Hooker Foundation based?
- Hooker Foundation is based in VA.
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