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The Hendricks-Cox Foundation at a glance

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The Hendricks-Cox 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.

$72k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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$88kHealth$40kPhilanthropy$40kYouth Development$31kReligion$20kEducation$9kRecreation & Sports$7kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $22k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$805k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Schiele Museum of Natural History$50,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Cancer Services of Gaston County$3,500
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Gaston$2,000
First United Methodist Church$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Backpack Weekend Food Program$1,000
S Effingham Elem Sch PTO$1,000
Natl WASP WWII Museum$1,000
FENCE$500
Gaston Low-cost SpayNeuter Clinic$500
Gaston School of the Arts$500
St Judes Children's Hospital$500
Pisgah ARP Church$500
Whidbey Animals Improvement Fdn$400
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $800) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Grace International: $300 → 13%RideAbility Therapeutic Riding Center: $500 → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
PA
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$190k · 37 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
39

Total granted

$190k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+37%

Still filing today

68%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 & CultureAnimalsHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SM
    SCHIELE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND PLANETARIUM
    5× · 2021–2025 · $77k · revenue +47%
  • CS
    CANCER SERVICES OF GASTON CTY INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +27%
  • CS
    CANCER SERVICES INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $14k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • GS
    Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +31%
  • FU
    First United Methodist Ch
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • FU
    First United Methodist Church
    one grant, 2020 · $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.

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
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
4
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens

Hillwood estate, museum & garden's (hillwood) mission is to share the renowned art collections, exceptional gardens and related public and educational programs with a wide and diverse audience. since its opening, hillwood has served…

Arts & Culture
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
8
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
9
Galapagos Conservancy Inc

Our organization's mission is "conserving galpagos for nature and community," which we realize by saving imperiled species, restoring ecosystems, and building a more sustainable society in the galapagos archipelago.

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10
International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech
11
The Natural Science Center of Greensboro Inc Dba Greensboro Science Center

The mission of the center is inspiring curiosity and connecting communities through science and conservation. we accomplish this by providing ever-evolving experiences where exploration and imagination intersect, igniting a lifelong…

Arts & Culture
12
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dega Mobile Veterinary Care. 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

50 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. 50 of the 88 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
32/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER GAS: $20,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER GASGirl Scouts of Historic Georgia Inc: $10,000 · OtherGirl Scouts of Historic Georgia IncFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHCAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION: $7,100 · OtherCAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientS Effingham Elem Sch PTO: $5,000 · Other+51 more: $38,000 · Other+51 moreSCHIELE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND PLANETARIUM: $76,600 · Arts & CultureSCHIELE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AN…NATIONAL WASP WWII MUSEUM INC: $3,500 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $4,400 · Arts & CultureGASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $39,600 · PhilanthropyGASTON COMMUNITY …+2 more: $600 · PhilanthropyCANCER SERVICES OF GASTON CTY INC: $16,000 · HealthCANCER SERVIC…CANCER SERVICES INC: $14,000 · HealthCANCER SERVIC…+2 more: $800 · HealthBACKPACK WEEKEND FOOD PROGRAM INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC: $800 · Food & NutritionHumane World for Animals Inc: $800 · AnimalsDEGA Mobile Veterinary Care: $600 · AnimalsJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $600 · AnimalsKAREN BEASLEY SEA TURTLE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION CENTER: $500 · AnimalsRENEGADE PAWS RESCUE INC: $500 · AnimalsWHIDBEY ANIMALS IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION: $400 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $200 · Animals+2 more: $200 · AnimalsISHA FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · EducationPUT ON THE BRAKES INC: $400 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $100 · Education
Other$96,600Arts & Culture$84,500Philanthropy$40,200Health$30,800Food & Nutrition$3,800Animals$3,800Education$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSCHIELE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND PLANETARIUM: $76,600 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetGASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $39,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER GAS: $20,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCANCER SERVICES OF GASTON CTY INC: $16,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCANCER SERVICES INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGirl Scouts of Historic Georgia Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION: $7,100 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetNATIONAL WASP WWII MUSEUM INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBACKPACK WEEKEND FOOD PROGRAM INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetISHA FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFoothills Equestrian Nature Center Inc: $1,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROTARY COMMUNITY GARDEN OF GAST: $1,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKAREN BEASLEY SEA TURTLE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGASTON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIDEABILITY THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Gaston County Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRENEGADE PAWS RESCUE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUT ON THE BRAKES INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE INTERNATIONAL INC: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE CHARLOTTE REGION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNRDC ACTION FUND INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Dharma Retreat Center: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE: $100 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.

Duke Energy FoundationThe Carrie E and Lena…Gaston Community Foun…Foundation for the Ca…Ralph S Robinson Fami…The Stowe Foundation …Gaston Memorial Hospi…The David Belk Cannon…The Cannon Foundation…Carmax FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…The Blackbaud Giving …
Duke Energy FoundationNC25.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found · Gaston Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation · The Stowe Foundation Inc · Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc · The David Belk Cannon Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 The Hendricks-Cox Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hendricks-Cox Foundation. 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 88 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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