· Private foundation
James and Susan Hooker Family Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k16 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| BRIGHT STARS OF BETHLEHEM | $6,340 |
| BLUFFTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $3,500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN OF HH | $3,000 |
| LUTHERAN DIACONAL ASSOCIATION | $1,250 |
| NEW DIRECTIONS | $1,000 |
| BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| WOMEN IN PHILANTHROPY | $1,000 |
| HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MARCUS CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $500 |
| URBAN PROMISE | $500 |
| CAMPOLO CENTER | $500 |
| PLAY FOR PINK | $400 |
| ETV OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $282 |
| HUNDRED ACRE HOLLOWS | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2022, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBRIGHT STARS OF BETHLEHEM NFP5× · 2017–2022 · $73k · revenue +111%
- EUEASTERN UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2021 · $12k · revenue +75%
- HCHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2022 · $8k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- LOLORD OF LIFE LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $3k
- LDLUTHERAN DEACONESS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $3k
- CICHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
To foster the study of international law and to promote international relations on the basis of law and justice.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Founded in 1780, the american academy of arts and sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together "to…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 52 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 BRIGHT STARS OF BETHLEHEM NFP ↗
- Who funds EASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN DIACONAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGOLAND LUTHERAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR A VIBRANT PALESTINIAN ECONOMY ↗
- Who funds SC GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL HILTON HEAD ↗
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 of the Lowcountry · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James and Susan Hooker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James and Susan Hooker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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