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Jack Holt Family Foundation % Heidi U Holt

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.

$975
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$400
Largest
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$8kCrime & Legal$3kAnimals$1kHealth$1kEducation$900Arts & Culture$300Youth Development$250Other$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
2
States reached
$1k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION$400
PROTECT THE HARVEST$300
LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$275
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PROJECT VERITAS: $100 → 9%NCHA FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%JUDICIAL WATCH: $600 → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $400 → 14%CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE: $500 → 8%JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES: $4k → 10%FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%PROTECT THE HARVEST: $300 → 5%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $450 → 7%PROJECT VERITAS: $100 → 9%NCHA CHARITIES FOUNDATION: $250 → 11%JUDICIAL WATCH: $500 → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $250 → 14%CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE: $300 → 8%JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES: $4k → 10%FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%PROTECT THE HARVEST: $250 → 5%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $400 → 7%PROJECT VERITAS: $100 → 9%JUDICIAL WATCH: $450 → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $250 → 14%CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE: $250 → 8%JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES: $3k → 10%FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%PROTECT THE HARVEST: $250 → 5%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $275 → 7%JUDICIAL WATCH: $250 → 14%CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE: $250 → 8%JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES: $2k → 10%FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%PROTECT THE HARVEST: $225 → 5%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $225 → 7%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $100 → 14%CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE: $250 → 8%JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES: $1k → 10%FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $250 → 14%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $100 → 7%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $100 → 14%JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES: $1k → 10%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $100 → 7%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $100 → 7%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $100 → 7%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $50 → 7%ALEC: $100 → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25k · 8 repeat orgs$1k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$25k
$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+36%

Still filing today

50%
33%

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
Public BenefitYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • EF
    EVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $6k · revenue +363%
  • CP
    CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue +74%
  • PV
    PROJECT VERITAS
    3× · 2019–2021 · $300 · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • NF
    NCHA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • NC
    NCHA CHARITIES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250 · revenue +36%
  • A
    ALEC
    one grant, 2019 · $100
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
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
2
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…

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3
Frontiers of Freedom Institute

To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…

Public Benefit
4
Liberty Justice Center

To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…

Crime & Legal
5
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
6
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
7
Institute for Humane Studies

The Institute discovers, develops, and supports students, scholars, and other intellectuals who maintain the highest standard of academic excellence and who share an interest in the principles of the classical liberal tradition.

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8
Hudson Institute Inc

Hudson Institute is a research organization promoting American leadership for a secure, free, and prosperous future.

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9
American Press Institute Inc

American press institute acts as a scout on the frontier of technology and audience behavior to identify where change is occurring and helps news organizations learn how to implement and scale that change successfully so they have a…

Arts & Culture
10
The American Antitrust Institute Inc

Promote competition that protects consumers, businesses, and society.

Social Science
11
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
12
Center for European Policy Analysis

See schedule othe center for european policy analysis (cepa) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public policy institution headquartered in washington, dc with hubs in london and brussels, focused on strengthening the transatlantic alliance…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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 13 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $13,550 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $5,500 · OtherEVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATIONJUDICIAL WATCH: $1,800 · OtherJUDICIAL WATCHCASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE: $1,550 · OtherCASCADE POLICY INSTITUTEPACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $1,150 · OtherPROTECT THE HARVEST: $1,025 · OtherNCHA FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Other+2 more: $400 · OtherHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $900 · EducationLeadership Institute: $650 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $200 · Public BenefitNCHA CHARITIES FOUNDATION: $250 · Youth Development
Other$25,975Education$900Public Benefit$850Youth Development$250

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 budgetEVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE: $1,550 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROTECT THE HARVEST: $1,025 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNCHA CHARITIES FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 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 EVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds PROTECT THE HARVEST ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
  • Who funds NCHA CHARITIES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jack Holt Family Foundation % Heidi U Holt funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack Holt Family Foundation % Heidi U Holt. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 13 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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