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J Michael & Marilyn P Hickey Charitable Foundation at a glance

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J Michael & Marilyn P Hickey Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 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 FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$26k
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 2024.

Philanthropy$151kEducation$127kHealth$32kAnimals$10kHuman Services$7kFood & Nutrition$600Housing & Shelter$500
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRANITE UNITED WAY$26,450
GRANITE UNITED WAY$8,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATE$7,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE SPCA$2,000
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE$2,000
JAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION INC$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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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%HAVEN-VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $1k → 5%JAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 5%JAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $750 → 5%HAVEN-VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $500 → 5%JAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $500 → 5%JAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $500 → 5%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$325k · 8 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$325k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • GU
    GRANITE UNITED WAY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $151k · revenue +40%
  • UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    8× · 2017–2024 · $127k · revenue +35%
  • NH
    New Hampshire Association for the Blind D/B/A Future in Sight
    4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • CM
    Crotched Mountain Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -47%
  • RN
    ROCKINGHAM NUTRITION AND MEALS ON WHEELS PROGRAM
    one grant, 2020 · $600 · revenue +22%
  • CR
    Cross Roads House Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +22%
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
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Central New Hampshire Vna & Hospice

Promoting dignity, independence and well-being through the delivery of quality home health, hospice and community-based care services.

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3
New Hampshire Hospital Association

The NHHA mission is to lead through advocacy, education, and information in support of its member hospitals and health systems as they strive to improve the health of the individuals and communities they serve.

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4
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation

We achieve our purpose by: supporting New Hampshire's nonprofit organizations and students; connecting generous people with pressing community needs and effective ways to give; collaborating, building relationships and learning from all of…

Philanthropy
5
New Hampshire Historical Society

To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.

Arts & Culture
6
New England Animal Health Inc
Science & Tech
7
Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation of Nh
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8
Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health
9
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
10
Northern New Hampshire Healthcare Collaborative Inc

Northern New Hampshire Healthcare Collaborative, Inc. will ensure access to quality care within the communities in which our patients live, provide local and high quality care with positive outcomes to our patients in Coos County while…

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11
Manchester Neighborhood Housing Services Inc

NeighborWorks Southern New Hampshire enhances people's lives and the community environment by providing access to quality housing services, revitalizing neighborhoods and supporting opportunities for personal empowerment. The target market…

Housing & Shelter
12
Monadnock Community Hospital

Monadnock Community Hospital is committed to improving the health and well-being of our community. We will elevate the health of our community by providing accessible, high quality and value based care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Granite United Way; the most unlike its peers is New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRANITE UNITED WAY: $150,998 · OtherGRANITE UNITED WAYNew Hampshire Association for the Blind D/B/A Future in Sight: $20,000 · OtherNew Hampshire Association for the Blind D/B/A Future in SightANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $8,055 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $126,954 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCO…KREMPELS BRAIN INJURY CENTER: $12,300 · PhilanthropyJAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $2,750 · Human ServicesCrotched Mountain Foundation: $2,500 · Human ServicesHAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $1,500 · Human ServicesNEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,300 · AnimalsROCKINGHAM NUTRITION AND MEALS ON WHEELS PROGRAM: $600 · Food & NutritionCross Roads House Inc: $500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$179,553Education$126,954Philanthropy$12,300Human Services$6,750Animals$2,300Food & Nutrition$600Housing & Shelter$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGRANITE UNITED WAY: $150,998 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $126,954 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNew Hampshire Association for the Blind D/B/A Future in Sight: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKREMPELS BRAIN INJURY CENTER: $12,300 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $8,055 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $2,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCrotched Mountain Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCKINGHAM NUTRITION AND MEALS ON WHEELS PROGRAM: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCross Roads House Inc: $500 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.

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.

New Hampshire Charita…Eastern Bank Foundati…Bangor Savings Bank F…Abraham Burtman Chari…Eversource Energy Fou…Lincoln Financial Fou…The Pfizer Foundation…Foundation for Seacoa…Bank of New Hampshire…A Caring Community IncCharities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Abraham Burtman Charity Trust · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Foundation for Seacoast Health · Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · A Caring Community Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization J Michael & Marilyn P Hickey Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Michael & Marilyn P Hickey Charitable 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
    5report 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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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