· Private foundation
The Hooker 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Arkansas Business School | $10,000 |
| University of Arkansas Foundation | $5,000 |
| K-9s For Warriors | $5,000 |
| Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country | $3,000 |
| St Pauls Methodist Church | $2,500 |
| Community Foundation of Lincoln County | $1,000 |
| Texas Search and Rescue | $1,000 |
| Gruver Farm Scholarship Foundation | $1,000 |
| Isner Family Foundation | $689 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +15% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% 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
- UOUniversity of Arkansas Business School2× · 2024–2025 · $20k
K9S FOR WARRIORS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue 0%- SPSt Pauls Methodist Church2× · 2024–2025 · $5k
Funded once
- RPROLLING PLAINS QUAIL RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
- SWSHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUSTone grant, 2024 · $2k
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF LINCOLN COUNTYone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +11%
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.
Provide temporary and permanent housing for abandoned animalsand provide veterinary care for those animals
Local humane society animal shelter and animal rescue.
The foundation exists to build god's kingdom by serving donors in the mid-south as they seek to provide resources for god's work in our community and throughout the world.
To foster excellence in the tift county public schools.
The texas veterinary medical foundation is committed to supporting the veterinary profession and our communities in texas by providing resources, education, and programs for the responsible stewardship of animals.
To provide college scholarships for deserving graduates of seymour, tx high school and to support activities of seymour independent school district.
To encourage charitable giving, enhancing healthcare and education provided by syracuse area health.
Provide scholarships to qualifying students at private schools.
Animal rescue foundation inc (arf) rescues homeless dogs and cats in the tulsa area and helps them find loving homes. we do this by rescuing homelss animals out of area shelters, accepting owner surrendered pets, placing them in foster…
To provide support to the morrill county community hospital
To support the educational programs and mission of christ the king diocesan schools in lubbock, tx.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 14 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 K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ROLLING PLAINS QUAIL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GRUVER FARM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF LINCOLN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ISNER FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MESILLA VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hooker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hooker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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