· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,400 |
| THE VALENTINE | $5,000 |
| WATSON YOUTH GOLD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ASPIRE | $5,000 |
| MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION | $4,500 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- MSMEADOWBROOK SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 QUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hoak Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hoak Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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