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The Hallick Family 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.

$176k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$68k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Health$632kEducation$589kFood & Nutrition$130kArts & Culture$53kReligion$29kHousing & Shelter$21kHuman Services$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
$3,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MADISON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$68,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$22,500
LUNG CANCER RESEARCH GREATEST NEED$15,000
MAYO CLINIC$15,000
VERMONT LUTHERAN CHURCH$10,000
ICAN INTERNATIONAL CANCER ADVOCACY$10,000
BADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ARENA FOOD PANTRY$3,000
WAYFORWARD RESOURCES$3,000
THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY$3,000
ST JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH$3,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$3,000
PORCHLIGHT$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $6k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $6k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $3k → 10%WAYFORWARD RESOURCES: $3k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $3k → 10%WAYFORWARD RESOURCES: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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IL
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CA
CO
MD
AZ
DC
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$877k · 20 repeat orgs$401k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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8

Total granted

$877k
$358k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+22%

Still filing today

50%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • MADISON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $358k · revenue +41%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $198k · revenue +29%
  • BP
    BADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $32k · revenue +275%

Funded once

  • MC
    MET CRUSADERS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $252k
  • WY
    WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -39%
  • VL
    VERMONT LEGACY FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

2
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

To support scientific research within the uw-madison community by providing financial support, actively managing assets, and moving innovations to the marketplace for a financial return and global impact.

Education
3
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.

Community Improvement
4
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Madison Community Foundation

Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.

Philanthropy
7
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education
8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
9
University Research Park Incorporated

The organization acquires, holds, administers, and distributes real and personal property for the benefit of the university of wisconsin (uw)-madison.

Education
10
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

11
Michigan Biotechnology Institute

Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.

Education
12
The Morgridge Institute for Research Inc

Our mission is to improve human health by conducting, enabling and translating innovative, interdisciplinary biomedical research in partnership with the university of wisconsin-madison and others, by leveraging our collective strength in…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MADISON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $358,000 · EducationMADISON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $197,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Education+2 more — $13,000 · EducationMET CRUSADERS INC — $251,724 · OtherMET CRUSADERS INCJDRF WESTERN WISCONSIN CHAPTER — $35,000 · OtherJDRF WESTERN WISCONSIN CHAPTERMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER — $30,000 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERVERMONT LEGACY FUND — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $22,500 · OtherARENA FOOD PANTRY — $21,000 · OtherVERMONT LUTHERAN CHURCH — $20,000 · OtherICAN INTERNATIONAL CANCER ADVOCACY — $20,000 · Other+9 more — $67,000 · Other+9 moreMAYO CLINIC — $217,637 · HealthMAYO CLINICDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $30,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer I…BREAKTHROUGH T1D — $22,500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DBADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK INC — $32,000 · Food & NutritionTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC — $21,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $18,000 · Food & NutritionWISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureBLACK EARTH CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $3,000 · Arts & CultureWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC — $24,000 · Human ServicesPORCHLIGHT INC — $21,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$588,500Other$492,224Health$270,137Food & Nutrition$71,000Arts & Culture$28,000Human Services$24,000Housing & Shelter$21,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMADISON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $358,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $217,637 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $197,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK INC — $32,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC — $24,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $22,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC — $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPORCHLIGHT INC — $21,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK EARTH CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $3,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds MADISON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK INC
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
  • Who funds WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D
  • Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC
  • Who funds PORCHLIGHT INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI
  • Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds BLACK EARTH CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Madison Community FoundationWI17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · Madison Investments Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Hallick Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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