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The Hickey Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $87k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+12 grants · $5.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $908,309 |
| INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS | $600,000 |
| NPH-USA | $575,000 |
| Children's Global Health Fund | $550,000 |
| PROJECT PEANUT BUTTER | $500,415 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS | $450,000 |
| ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $325,000 |
| Shared Hope International | $300,000 |
| Middle East Children's Institute | $280,000 |
| SONS OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE | $274,575 |
| Regents of the University of Califo | $250,000 |
| CULTURE REFRAMED | $250,000 |
| Arizona Legal Women And Youth Servi | $215,000 |
| OCJ Kids | $200,000 |
| MEDS FOOD FOR KIDS | $200,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $4.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 30% of The Hickey Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $431k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +10%
- IMINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +24%
- CGCHILDRENS GLOBAL HEALTH FUND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +224% · 45% of their budget
Funded once
- PPPhoenix Police Dept FBO HEAT Unitone grant, 2022 · $249k
- COCITY OF PHOENIXone grant, 2020 · $200k
- UOUniversity of AZ Foundationone grant, 2022 · $127k
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.
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.
The arizona pet project creates systemic change and provides resources, so no families are forced to balance their own basic needs of food, shelter, and safety and the needs of their companion animals, often the only meaningful connection…
Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…
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,…
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
Pca promotes healing and justice for sexually abused children in philadelphia. using a multidisciplinary approach, we collaborate with our partners in child protection, law enforcement, and medical and mental health services to provide…
To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Orphans D/B/a Nph-Usa and the most unlike its peers is Womens Justice Now. 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 24 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 58 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 ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PEANUT BUTTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS GLOBAL HEALTH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURE REFRAMED INC ↗
- Who funds OCJ KIDS ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds VALLEY BLOOM ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN PARK HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ANGELS ON PATROL INC ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds Starfish Partnerships Corporation ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE THE CITY ↗
- Who funds AZ IMPACT FOR GOOD ↗
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: Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Ibis Foundation of Arizona co Casey LeSueur Getz CPAs PLLC · Burton Family Foundation · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · American Express Foundation · Gannett Foundation Inc · The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation
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.
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.
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