How much does The Jim Hicks Family Foundation give?

The Jim Hicks Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $769,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Jim Hicks Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Housing & Shelter (16%), Youth Development (12%).

Who are The Jim Hicks Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Angeles Crest Christian Camp ($383k), Hispanic Ministry Center ($215k), Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ($194k).

Does The Jim Hicks Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Jim Hicks 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 Jim Hicks Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Edwards Lifesciences Foundation, The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.

Where is The Jim Hicks Family Foundation based?

The Jim Hicks Family Foundation is based in CA.

The Jim Hicks Family Foundation

The Jim Hicks Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Jim Hicks 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.

$770k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$70k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$816kHousing & Shelter$694kYouth Development$509kHealth$501kPublic Benefit$338kRecreation & Sports$332kCivil Rights$251kArts & Culture$198kOther$0

02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $17k
$10k–50k22 grants · $573k
$50k–250k3 grants · $180k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$10M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Door of Hope	$70,000
ANGELES CREST CHRISTIAN CAMP	$60,000
FULLER YOUTH INSTITUTE	$50,000
SOLIDARITY	$45,000
HERITAGE HOUSING PARTNERS	$45,000
ORANGE COUNTY RESCUE MISSION	$40,000
AG IN THE CLASSROOM	$35,000
URBAN YOUTH WORKERS INSTITUTE	$35,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOMEWORK HOUSE	$35,000
UNION RESCUE MISSION	$30,000
FOOD FORWARD	$30,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS	$25,000
IMMIGRATION RESOURCE CENTER	$25,000
STARS FOUNDATION	$25,000
EISENHOWER FOUNDATION	$22,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $483k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.7M · 81 repeat orgs$281k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

81 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.7M

$276k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

Still filing today

72%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsPublic BenefitHealthArts & CultureOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

AC
ANGELES CREST CHRISTIAN CAMP
9× · 2017–2025 · $383k · revenue +118%
HM
HISPANIC MINISTRY CENTER
7× · 2019–2025 · $215k · revenue +31%
HH
HERITAGE HOUSING PARTNERS
5× · 2021–2025 · $170k · revenue +18%

Funded once

TR
The Rightway Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +535%
FT
FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -23%
BG
BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCHgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +97%

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.

04Its field

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.

United States Naval Institute

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.

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American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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…

Social Science

Augustana College

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…

Education

Foreign Policy Research Institute

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…

International

Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment

American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

—

Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education

Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education

Ucla Foundation

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…

Education

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

American Gas Association

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…

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

90 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 90 of the 137 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

89/90

Grantees still filing

60/90

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,598,765Education$665,000Human Services$508,144Housing & Shelter$403,500Recreation & Sports$383,000Arts & Culture$221,348Health$220,000

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.

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.

Edwards Lifesciences FoundationCA16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Jim Hicks Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jim Hicks Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home