About Hickey Family Foundation
The Hickey Family Foundation focuses its giving on global child health and nutrition, emergency humanitarian response, and locally-rooted youth programs in Arizona. They support both operational medical work (clinic capital campaigns, pediatric health programs, autism-related care) and rapid-response relief in crisis settings, while also investing in community youth development and anti-trafficking efforts through a local community foundation. Grants tend to be large, multi-year, and targeted to organizations with established programmatic capacity.
Focus Areas
Child nutrition programs in low-income countries (e.g., therapeutic feeding and RUTF distribution)Emergency humanitarian medical response (Ukraine, Gaza, Somalia, Cameroon, Haiti)Pediatric clinical programs and medical innovation (Cleveland Clinic/Mobius Care, autism-related services)Dominican Republic family health clinics and capital campaignsArizona youth development and anti-trafficking initiatives (summer youth programs, regional designated funds)
Who They Fund
pregnant women and new motherschildren (including school-aged and malnourished children)
About Hickey Family Foundation
A distinctive feature of The Hickey Family Foundation is its use of large, repeat grants to fund medical innovation alongside youth and humanitarian work. The biggest recent awards in the record were $1,000,000 grants to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation for medical technology projects, including Mobius Care Inc. and a separate package for Zehna Therapeutics, Enspire DBS Therapy, Mitria Medical, and Method AI. That same pattern of scale appears in other parts of the portfolio: the foundation also backs child nutrition work, emergency medical relief, and youth services with six-figure awards. Its grantmaking reaches from university and medical-center research to direct service programs for children, youth, and families. In Arizona, it supports designated funds for summer youth programming and anti-trafficking work, while elsewhere it funds international humanitarian responses and clinic-building efforts through established nonprofit intermediaries. The portfolio shows a funder that favors targeted projects with clear operational purpose rather than broad, unrestricted support.
What Hickey Family Foundation Funds
In medical technology, the foundation gave $908,309 to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation for Zehna Therapeutics, NeuroTherapia, and Steelhead Therapeutics, showing sustained support for projects already underway at a major research institution. In child nutrition, it granted $601,255 to Project Peanut Butter for Sierra Leone facility upgrades and extension for pregnant women, treatment of childhood malnutrition in Payatas using RUTF, and feeding school children in Ivory Coast. In humanitarian response, International Medical Corps received $600,000 for emergency support tied to Gaza, Ukraine, Somalia, and Cameroon. The foundation also supports youth protection and local services: Shared Hope International received $300,000 for training program expansion, and Native American Connections received $450,000 for homeless youth services.
How Hickey Family Foundation Gives
Typical grants are large: the distribution runs from a 25th percentile of $65,000 to a median of $180,000 and a 75th percentile of $368,750. The record shows repeated funding to the same organizations across multiple years, including Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Arizona Community Foundation, Project Peanut Butter, International Medical Corps, Native American Connections, Nph-usa, and Children’s Global Health Fund. The foundation is classified as a regular funder and also funds individuals. Its active programs are invite-only, and the listed grant programs do not accept unsolicited requests.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$6.7M
Total Assets
$150.7M
Total Revenue
$5.6M
Total Expenses
$7.6M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $65K and $369K, with a median of $180K.
25th Percentile
$65K
Median
$180K
75th Percentile
$369K
Geographic Reach
National10 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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