Hickory Foundation

• Because Hickory Foundation supports only preselected organisations and does not accept unsolicited requests, a cold application is unlikely to be considered, so any approach should be built around that invitation-only route.
• Its giving centres on economic freedom, education and the arts, so your work should clearly fit one of those themes.
• No geographic focus is stated, so your location should not count against you on the foundation's own terms.
• Typical grants fall between $5,000 and $200,000, with a median of $20,000 and half of grants at $20,000 or less, so a request near the lower end of that range matches its usual practice, though its largest grant was $300,000.
• Repeat funding makes up 72% of its grant dollars, so it leans towards organisations it has funded before, and nothing here sets a timetable for approaching it.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• New York Public Library · Charitable
  $300,0002023 tax year
• Witherspoon Institute · Charitable
  $250,0002023 tax year
• Encounter for Culture & Education · Charitable
  $250,0002023 tax year
• Federalist Society · Charitable
  $225,0002023 tax year
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History · Charitable
  $200,0002023 tax year
• Special Operations Warrior Foundation · Charitable
  $200,0002023 tax year
• Hospital for Special Surgery · Charitable
  $200,0002023 tax year
• Children's Scholarship Fund · Charitable
  $200,0002023 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.