The Hooker Family Foundation
The site identifies the Hooker Family Foundation and states a mission of empowering children through education; it lists founders Ana and L. Janusz Hooker and describes international education projects and programs. Content and team pages align with authoritative registry entries (Candid/ProPublica) for EIN 93-2147689 and Dallas, TX.
Source: Website · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
Small to mid-sized education or youth-focused nonprofits, schools, community foundations, or university education programs that match the foundation's education/children mission and can make use of relatively small general support awards.
Good Fit
- • Work focused on education or youth development.
- • Ability to deploy modest general operating support (grants in the low-thousands range).
- • Located in or serving one of the states the foundation funded in 2024 (for example AR, NM, TX, FL, CA, NC).
- • Existing introduction or referral to the foundation's board or directors, or prior visibility to foundation leadership.
Geography
In the latest observed year grants were made to organizations in six different states, and the majority of giving went out of state rather than being confined to Texas.
Recipient Variety
The latest year shows ten distinct independent recipients (ten grants to ten organizations), indicating a moderate breadth of grantees for a micro private foundation; however, financial concentration is high with one large grant and the top five recipients capturing most dollars.
New Applicants
The foundation explicitly indicates it only funds preselected recipients and the declared application route is not open to general applicants; direct evidence of regular open entry is lacking despite many distinct recipients in the most recent year.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
