· Private foundation
The Hickey Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $119k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| GIVE DIRECTLY | $55,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| GLOBAL GIVING | $35,000 |
| FLORIDA AMERICAN LEGION-JOHN G DORAN MEMORIAL POST 158 | $25,000 |
| COOL EARTH | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO | $15,000 |
| HOPE SERVICES HAWAII | $12,000 |
| HOLUALOA FOUNDATION OF ARTS AND CULTURE | $10,000 |
| THE NIGHT MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $10,000 |
| HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| TAHIRIH JUSTICE CCENTER | $9,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TAThe Against Malaria Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $509k · revenue +29%
DIRECT RELIEF5× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +20%- CECOOL EARTH ACTION USA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $87k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- SCSOLARAID CHARITYone grant, 2024 · $100k
- BHBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF ILLINOIS SCHOLARSone grant, 2024 · $30k
- PHPROJECT HAWAII INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
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.
For over 20 years, chai's mission has been to save lives and improve health outcomes in low-and middle-income countries around the world. we do this by enabling the government and private sector to strengthen and sustain quality health…
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Ifac acts in the public interest and has no profit-making purpose. ifac serves the public interest by: speaking out and engaging as the voice for the global profession; leading and developing a future-ready accountancy profession; and…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Defense and the most unlike its peers is Cool Earth Action Usa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 81 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds COOL EARTH ACTION USA INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE SERVICES HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Architecture Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
- Who funds HOLUALOA FOUNDATION FOR ARTS & CULTURE ↗
- Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROGRAMS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds READING POWER INC ↗
- Who funds MALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Hickey 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.
- Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.