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Mary Lynne Hickey Foundation at a glance

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Mary Lynne Hickey 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.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$33kRecreation & Sports$8kReligion$5kHuman Services$4kEnvironment$2kEducation$1kPublic Benefit$1kAnimals$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$600
Median grant
3
States reached
$114k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION$5,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIV KELLOGG PT MBA PR$1,000
TURNING POINT USA$1,000
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR$1,000
OVER THE RAINBOW ASSOCIATION$1,000
LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION$600
CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDENS$300
HOLY NAME CATHEDRAL$200
GOLD COAST NEIGHBORS ASSOCIATION$200
WTTW$100
MISERICORDIA$100
INTERNATIONAL CHURCHILL SOCIETY$100
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TURNING POINT USA: $1k → 11%INTERNATIONAL CHURCHILL SOCIETY: $100 → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $200 → 14%MARYGROVE: $250 → 11%AMERICAN HEARING RESEARCH: $100 → 7%LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $600 → 8%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $1k → 14%INTERNATIONAL CHURCHILL SOCIETY: $100 → 14%AASH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF: $100 → 11%LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $100 → 8%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $1k → 14%INTERNATIONAL CHURCHILL SOCIETY: $100 → 14%AASH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF: $100 → 11%LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $100 → 8%CENACLE SISTERS: $500 → 14%INTERNATIONAL CHURCHILL SOCIETY: $100 → 14%LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $100 → 8%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $500 → 14%INTERNATIONAL CHURCHILL SOCIETY: $100 → 14%CENACLE SISTERS: $350 → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $200 → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIV KELLOGG PT MBA PR: $1k → 14%CARMELITE MONASTERY: $700 → 14%CARMELITE MONASTERY: $500 → 14%ST JOSEPH PARISH: $2k → 14%CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDENS: $300 → 14%GOLD COAST NEIGHBORS ASSOCIATION: $250 → 14%CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN: $200 → 14%GOLD COAST NEIGHBORS ASSOCIATION: $200 → 14%CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDENS: $200 → 14%JUNIOR LEAGE OF CHICAGO: $200 → 14%CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDENS: $130 → 14%GOLD COAST NEIGHBORS ASSOCIATION: $200 → 14%CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDENS: $129 → 14%626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%HOLY NAME CATHEDRAL: $400 → 14%BOYS HOPE GIRSL HOPE: $150 → 14%HOLY NAME CATHEDRAL: $200 → 14%OVER THE RAINBOW ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%PRECIOUS BLOOD MINISTRY: $1k → 14%CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION: $110 → 14%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$48k · 15 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
10

Total granted

$48k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+45%

Still filing today

53%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsAnimalsCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • 6L
    626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +88%
  • Northwestern University
    3× · 2020–2022 · $8k · revenue +33%
  • LF
    LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH PARISH
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • PB
    PRECIOUS BLOOD MINISTRY
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • CC
    CHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE
    one grant, 2021 · $250 · revenue -48%
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
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
University of Illinois Alumni Association

The mission of the university of illinois alumni association is to enhance and advance the relationship between the university of illinois at urbana-champaign (the university) and all its alumni; to inspire lifelong loyalty and pride among…

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4
Concordia University Chicago

Steadfast in jesus christ as revealed in the holy scriptures, concordia university chicago promotes academic rigor in its liberal arts and professional programs; grounds students in objective truth, integrity, and excellence; and practices…

Education
5
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
6
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
7
Lincoln Park Conservancy

The mission of the lincoln park conservancy is to preserve and enhance the inspiring beauty of chicago's largest and most visited park for current and future generations. we believe that beauty matters. that it has the transformative power…

Recreation & Sports
8
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
9
Trinity Christian College Association

Provide a biblically informed liberal arts education to undergraduate and graduate college students. we strive to offer the highest quality of instruction to prepare students for excellence in further study and careers beyond trinity. all…

Education
10
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
11
Lehigh University

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…

Education
12
The American Institute of Architects

Vision: drive positive change through the power of design and focused activism.mission: aia inspires and empowers architects to improve society and transform the world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Horticultural Society; the most unlike its peers is Hope Ignites Chicago. 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

17 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. 17 of the 29 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Arts & Culture626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION+5 more: $1,910 · Arts & Culture+5 moreLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $2,500 · OtherLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POO…ST JOSEPH PARISH: $2,000 · OtherST JOSEPH PARISHCARMELITE MONASTERY: $1,200 · OtherCARMELITE MONASTERYOVER THE RAINBOW ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · OtherOVER THE RAINBOW ASSOCIAT…PRECIOUS BLOOD MINISTRY: $1,000 · OtherPRECIOUS BLOOD MINISTRYNORTHWESTERN UNIV KELLOGG PT MBA PR: $1,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN UNIV KELLOGG…TURNING POINT USA INC: $1,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCIndividual grant recipient: $850 · OtherIndividual grant recipien…HOLY NAME CATHEDRAL: $750 · OtherHOLY NAME CATHEDRAL+6 more: $900 · Other+6 moreNorthwestern University: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern Un…LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $1,100 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $959 · EnvironmentLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $500 · AnimalsTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $200 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $200 · EducationCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $250 · HealthTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CHICAGO INC: $200 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$31,910Other$12,200Recreation & Sports$7,500Environment$2,059Animals$500Education$400Health$250Community Improvement$200

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 budget626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetNorthwestern University: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $1,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $959 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGOLD COAST NEIGHBORS ASSOCIATION: $750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $520 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHURCHILL SOCIETY: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CHICAGO INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE IGNITES CHICAGO: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Architecture Foundation: $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIRISH AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER: $30 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.

AbbVie FoundationThe Chicago Community…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
AbbVie FoundationIL14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mary Lynne Hickey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Lynne Hickey 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
    2report 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 29 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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