· Private foundation
The Jim Hicks 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $521k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANGELES CREST CHRISTIAN CAMP | $60,000 |
| SOLIDARITY | $40,000 |
| Door of Hope | $35,000 |
| HERITAGE HOUSING PARTNERS | $30,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY RESCUE MISSION | $30,000 |
| AG IN THE CLASSROOM | $30,000 |
| URBAN YOUTH WORKERS INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| FOOD FORWARD | $30,000 |
| FULLER YOUTH INSTITUTE | $27,000 |
| UNION RESCUE MISSION | $25,000 |
| STARS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $20,000 |
| THOMAS HOUSE FAMILY SHELTER | $20,000 |
| IMMIGRATION RESOURCE CENTER | $20,000 |
| EISENHOWER FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $396k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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 +7% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 50 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- ACANGELES CREST CHRISTIAN CAMP8× · 2017–2024 · $323k · revenue +118%
- HMHISPANIC MINISTRY CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $180k · revenue +31%
- FFFOOD FORWARD INC5× · 2020–2024 · $138k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- TRThe Rightway Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +535%
- FTFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -23%
- BGBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCHgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +97%
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.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
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…
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
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…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is One Section At a Time. 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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
89 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. 89 of the 136 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 ANGELES CREST CHRISTIAN CAMP ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds SOLIDARITY ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE HOUSING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOMEWORK HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds STARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Eisenhower Foundation ↗
- Who funds DOOR OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds THOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER ↗
- Who funds CLARIS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TEDY'S TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds POMONA HOPE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PIH Health Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds WILD PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH 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: Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · California Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Eric Javits Family Foundation · John P & Kathryn G Evans Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Sandra & Lawrence Post Family Foundation · Liferay Foundation · Weingart 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 Jim Hicks 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.
- 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.