· Private foundation
The Hickerson Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k5 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Montpelier Foundation | $135,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,000 |
| The Boykin Spaniel Society | $40,000 |
| Hope's Legacy Equine Rescue | $35,000 |
| Madison Greene Humane Society | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +95% since the first grant, against +88% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMONTPELIER FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2023 · $405k · revenue +82%
- BSBOYKIN SPANIEL SOCIETY7× · 2017–2023 · $292k · revenue +40%
- FSFAUQUIER SPCA INC3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- SDService Dogs of VAone grant, 2018 · $15k
- BSBOYKIN SPANIEL RESCUE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +88%
- OSOC Sheriff's Prog K9one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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.
Old Dominion Humane Society provides well-matched, permanent homes for dogs in need through rescue, rehabilitation, and education.
Rescue animals
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
Dog rescue
The Humane Society of Union County exists to reduce the number of abused, abandoned, and neglected cats and dogs through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and spay and neuter.
we exist to spay and neuter unwanted pets in our local area trying to find them a home to thrive in until the end of their time
The Organization's mission is to rescue dogs from high-kill animal shelters and place them in loving forever homes. All dogs rescued are given necessary medical care prior to adoption, including required vaccinations. Dogs are placed in…
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MONTPELIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYKIN SPANIEL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOPE'S LEGACY EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON-GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREEN DOGS UNLEASHED INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYKIN SPANIEL RESCUE INC ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hickerson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hickerson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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