Delaware · Private foundation
The Henkes 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.
- $26k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $216k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Henkes Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 36 | $25k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $21k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $15k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $16k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $14k | 34% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $9k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $7k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $10k | 53% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samaritan's Purse | $3,050 | 8 | 0% |
| Trauma Intervention Programs Inc | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| City of Hope National Medical Center | $2,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $2,450 | 8 | 0% |
| Henri Nouwen Society | $2,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Independent Medical Alliance | $2,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Renovare Inc | $2,100 | 6 | 0% |
| CS Lewis Institute | $2,100 | 7 | 0% |
| Prager University Foundation | $1,650 | 6 | 0% |
| Environmental Working Group | $1,450 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 85 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($66k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Henkes Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Abstraction Fund · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Farrell Family Foundation · John Templeton Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Brenneman Family Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Henkes Foundation
- How much does The Henkes Foundation give?
- The Henkes Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $25,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Henkes Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (60%), Health (10%), Education (7%).
- Who are The Henkes Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Samaritan's Purse ($3k), Trauma Intervention Programs Inc ($3k), City of Hope National Medical Center ($3k).
- Does The Henkes Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Henkes Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Henkes Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Bradley Impact Fund Inc, Christian Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Henkes Foundation based?
- The Henkes Foundation is based in DE.
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