Texas · Private foundation
The Hook Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2022
- 12
- Grants FY2022
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2022
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Hook Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Hook Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2022
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $310,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 5
- Total assets, FY2022
- $160k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations The Hook Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 10 | $975k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $765k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $960k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $660k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $868k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 26 | $758k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Public Policy Foundation | $5,425,000 | 7 | 10% |
| True the Vote Inc | $2,025,000 | 6 | 39% |
| College of the Ozarks | $775,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $652,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Ptsd Foundation of America | $125,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Country of Houston Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Houston's Amazing Place Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $76,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cal Farley's Boys Ranch | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($553k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Hook Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Hildebrand Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Sterling-Turner Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Marek Family Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Hook Family Foundation
- How much does The Hook Family Foundation give?
- The Hook Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $1,135,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does The Hook Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (66%), Public Benefit (17%), Civil Rights (6%).
- Who are The Hook Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Texas Public Policy Foundation ($5.4M), True the Vote Inc ($2.0M), College of the Ozarks ($775k).
- Does The Hook Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hook Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hook Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Strake Foundation.
- Where is The Hook Family Foundation based?
- The Hook Family Foundation is based in TX.
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