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.

The Henkes Foundation

The Henkes Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$7k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$74kHealth$12kEducation$8kPublic Benefit$7kArts & Culture$3kInternational$3kCivil Rights$3kSocial Science$3kOther$0

02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$216k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FULLERTON	$7,000
PROJECT VERITAS	$2,000
RENOVARE INC	$1,000
BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION	$1,000
INDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE INC	$1,000
AMERICA FIRST LEGAL FOUNDATION	$1,000
SAMARITANS PURSE	$1,000
TURNING POINT USA INC	$750
HILLSDALE COLLEGE	$500
AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY	$500
COME AND SEE FOUNDATION INC	$500
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-ANAHEIM	$500
MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER INC	$500
COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS	$500
California School for the Deaf-Riverside	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $350) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$111k · 47 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$111k

$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+20%

Still filing today

83%

79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationReligionArts & CulturePublic BenefitHealthCivil RightsOther

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

SP
SAMARITAN'S PURSE
8× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +134%
TI
Trauma Intervention Programs Inc
6× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +109%
CO
CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
8× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +229%

Funded once

TI
TRAUMA INTERVENTION PROGRAMS INC
one grant, 2020 · $500
LC
LIBERTY COUNSEL INC
one grant, 2021 · $250
RM
REVELATION MEDIA INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $250 · revenue +35%

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.

Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion

The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…

Religion

Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

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.

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The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International

Allbritton Journalism Institute

Allbritton journalism institute aims to train a new generation of non-partisan political reporters from diverse backgrounds to produce high-quality, fact-based journalism.

Education

Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science

Center of Theological Inquiry

The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…

Religion

Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science

American Law Institute

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…

Crime & Legal

International Republican Institute

Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. 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

80 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. 80 of the 96 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

77/80

Grantees still filing

50/80

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$88,230Education$9,600Religion$7,000Health$6,400Arts & Culture$4,350Public Benefit$3,950Crime & Legal$2,750

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.

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.

Donors Trust IncVA35.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Henkes Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Henkes Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

6report 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, 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home