Illinois · Private foundation
The Hickey Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $491k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 40
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Hickey Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k 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 | 44 | $491k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $497k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $818k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $425k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $396k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $370k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Against Malaria Foundation | $509,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Catholic University of America | $505,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Givedirectly Inc | $214,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Direct Relief | $90,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cool Earth Action USA Inc | $87,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Globalgiving Foundation Inc | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hope Services Hawaii Inc | $57,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Chicago Architecture Foundation | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $49,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($644k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hickey Family 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: 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
How this is measured
About The Hickey Family Foundation
- How much does The Hickey Family Foundation give?
- The Hickey Family Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $490,505 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Hickey Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (26%), Education (24%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are The Hickey Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Against Malaria Foundation ($509k), The Catholic University of America ($505k), Givedirectly Inc ($214k).
- Does The Hickey Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hickey Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hickey Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is The Hickey Family Foundation based?
- The Hickey Family Foundation is based in IL.
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