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Hussey 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.

$329k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
21%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$272,052
Organizations funded a year
19 to 28
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Hussey Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $702k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$329k25%
FY202419$746k21%
FY202324$55k21%
FY202222$45k18%
FY202128$49k18%
FY202023$53k22%
FY201922$45k23%
FY201825$50k16%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.0MEducation$89kReligion$81kHealth$55kArts & Culture$46kHuman Services$33kRecreation & Sports$27kCommunity Improvement$21kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
IN
CA
CO
NE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 36 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hussey Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBright Futures Foundation: $46,000 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetStrings Music Festival: $44,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetHouston Parks Board: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Violence-Free Relationships: $12,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHouston Golf Association Inc: $10,500 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetHelp Mito Kids Inc: $9,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetLucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health: $9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding the Foothills: $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Grand Canyon Trust Inc: $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Mexico Foundation Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCentral New Mexico Community College Foundation Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHopeworks: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt John's School: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDePauw University: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStand Up Placer Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetQuality Living Inc: $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBosque School: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetShelterbox USA Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Christian University: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Arboretum & Nature Center: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Safe Haven Foundation: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Council on Recovery: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetImpact a Hero Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSaranam LLC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWeave Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedical Bridges Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Jewish Health: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX18.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation · The Tapeats Fund · Marek Family Foundation · Strake Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Washington Federal Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Hussey Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hussey Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Hussey Foundation

How much does Hussey Foundation give?
Hussey Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $328,669 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Hussey Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (72%), Education (6%), Religion (6%).
Who are Hussey Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bright Futures Foundation ($46k), Strings Music Festival ($45k), Houston Parks Board ($17k).
Does Hussey Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hussey 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 Hussey Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Union Pacific Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc.
Where is Hussey Foundation based?
Hussey Foundation is based in IL.

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 63 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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