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The Hoak 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k55 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $111k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $1,002,000 |
| ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS | $51,500 |
| HOCKADAY SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| THE MADELEINE CHOIR SCHOOL | $26,000 |
| HOCKADAY SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,400 |
| THE VALENTINE | $5,000 |
| MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WATSON YOUTH GOLD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ASPIRE | $5,000 |
| VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION | $4,500 |
| YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% 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 +50% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
99 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- HSHOCKADAY SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $460k · revenue +44%
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +105%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769)8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- USUNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +38%
- UCUTAH CLEAN AIR PARTNERSHIP INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -35%
- TFTEXAS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT INC dba THE DA VINCI SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +39%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lamplighter School and the most unlike its peers is Del Monte Forest Conservancy. 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 39 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
100 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. 100 of the 150 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 HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds Hope Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds QUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GREENHILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · The Roberts Foundation · The Hoglund Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Riggs Family Foundation · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation 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 Hoak 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.
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