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Hancock Family Foundation

Savannah, GA · EIN 72-1612871. Reported 20 grants totalling $1,254,818 to 17 organizations 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
17organizations funded
$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. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

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 recipient's own IRS classification, for the 8 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

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

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 64% of this one's giving went to organizations in Georgia. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund7 shared recipientsThe Savannah Community Foundation4 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program4 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc4 shared recipientsGreater Kansas City Community Foundation4 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $35,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  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). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

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, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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