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Hancock Family Foundation

Savannah, GA · EIN 72-1612871. Reported 20 grants totalling $1,254,818 to 17 recipients across tax years 2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$35,000median grant
$1,254,818granted, 2023
17recipients, as named on its returns
$4,603,651assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Hancock Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $35,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $9,265 and $61,000; the smallest was $3,750 and the largest $500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
4 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant
$25,000 - $50,000
4 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
6 grants
$100,000 and Up
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Second Harvest of Coastal GeorgiaSavannah, GA$500,000112023
CcviKansas City, MO$158,170112023
Savannah Country Day SchoolSavannah, GA$150,000212023
Metro Lutheran MinistryKansas City, MO$66,383112023
The Whole PersonKansas City, MO$61,000112023
Matthew Reardon Center for AutismSavannah, GA$50,000112023
St Paul SchoolSavannah, GA$50,000112023
The Light Family Resource CenterKansas City, MO$50,000112023
Horizons SavannahMaryville, MO$40,000112023
Assistance League of KcGladstone, MO$30,000112023
Hope Network of RaytownRaytown, MO$25,000112023
Loop It Up SanvanahSavannah, GA$25,000112023
Elevate SavannahSavannah, GA$20,000112023
Fresh Air HomeTybee Island, GA$9,265112023
Kansas State UniversityManhattan, KS$7,500212023
The University of KansasLawrence, KS$7,500212023
Clark Atlanta UniversityAtlanta, GA$5,000112023
Plus 29 grants to individuals totalling $2,068,759 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 9 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Education
4 grants
Food & Nutrition
2 grants
Youth Development
1 grant
Recreation & Sports
1 grant
Human Services
1 grant

Where its money goes

64% of its giving went to organizations in Georgia. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Georgia
$809K
Missouri
$431K
Kansas
$15K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program6 shared recipientsThe Savannah Community Foundation5 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc5 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $35,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Georgia.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Hancock Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 1 Diamond Causeway 21, Savannah, GA, 31406. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 72-1612871 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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