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.

Where is The Hickey Family Foundation based?

The Hickey Family Foundation is based in IL.

The Hickey Family Foundation

The Hickey Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Hickey Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$491k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$793kEducation$719kHuman Services$400kEnvironment$276kArts & Culture$205kHealth$166kHousing & Shelter$105kYouth Development$55kOther$0

02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k30 grants · $119k
$10k–50k11 grants · $167k
$50k–250k3 grants · $205k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
DIRECT RELIEF	$10,000
MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION	$10,000
HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL	$10,000
HOLUALOA FOUNDATION OF ARTS AND CULTURE	$10,000
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA	$10,000
THE NIGHT MINISTRY	$10,000
TAHIRIH JUSTICE CCENTER	$9,000

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 (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 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.7M · 50 repeat orgs$287k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.7M

$238k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

-15%

Still filing today

78%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationOther

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

TA
The Against Malaria Foundation
6× · 2020–2025 · $509k · revenue +29%
DIRECT RELIEF
5× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +20%
CE
COOL EARTH ACTION USA INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $87k · revenue +7%

Funded once

SC
SOLARAID CHARITY
one grant, 2024 · $100k
BH
BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF ILLINOIS SCHOLARS
one grant, 2024 · $30k
PH
PROJECT HAWAII INC
one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%

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.

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc

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…

International

Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International

Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment

Project Drawdown

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;…

Education

Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science

International Federation of Accountants

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…

Education

Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International

Rainforest Alliance Inc

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.

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The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health

Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

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…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Defense; 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.

04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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)

56/57

Grantees still filing

33/57

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,075,005Health$598,000Education$566,500Human Services$304,000International$227,000Arts & Culture$141,000Environment$105,500

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA11.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get 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 · 0–40%

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