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Anne Hunting Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$54k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$54k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172022.

Philanthropy$54kArts & Culture$6kAnimals$2kHuman Services$1kFood & Nutrition$450Health$280Education$250Environment$200Other$0
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $104
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
$54,069
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$54,069
WILDLIFE DISCOVERY CENTER$104
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $250 → 8%FOREST PARK PRESERVATION: $250 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

12%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8k · 5 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +164% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$8k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+164%
+52%

Still filing today

80%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HC
    History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +16%
  • GC
    Gorton Community Center
    2× · 2018–2021 · $750 · revenue +164%
  • EF
    ELAWA FARM FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2021 · $450 · revenue +252%

Funded once

  • BP
    BISSELL Pet Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +137%
  • OO
    ORPHANS OF THE STORMgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $300 · revenue +187%
  • PC
    PORCHLIGHT COUNSELING SERVICES
    one grant, 2017 · $280

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Chicago Parks Foundation

The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.

Recreation & Sports
2
Forest Preserve Foundation Inc

The mission of the forest preserve foundation is to engage in protecting and restoring the treasured natural habitats within the forest preserve of cook county and to enhance outdoor experiences of all communities.we will do this by…

Environment
3
The Little Forks Conservancy Inc

To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.

Environment
4
Friends of Lake Forest Parks & Rec Foundation

The organization's mission is to provide funds for programs, facilities and events for the lake forest parks and recreation department which fall ouside the city of lake forest's budget.

Recreation & Sports
5
Glacial Lakes Conservancy Inc

Glacial Lakes Conservancy, as a land trust, is a nonprofit organization that, as part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisitions.

Environment
6
McHenry County Conservation Foundation

To promote, support, assist, sustain and encourage the charitable, educational, scientific and recreational programs, projects and policies of the McHenry County Conservation District and other open space organizations. This is…

Environment
7
Highland Park Conservancy Inc

The mission is to preserve Highland Park's unique heritage and to promote its vast horticultural, educational and recreational resources. Continued on Schedule OWe support planning, management and restoration, and engage the community…

Environment
8
North Shore Health Care Foundation

To expand equitable health care and healthy living in Cook County and champion solutions through funding, education and advocacy.

Health
9
The Forest Park Conservancy

To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…

Environment
10
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
11
Lake Forest Garden Club

To advance gardening, promote horticulatural knowledge and stimulate the community's interest in conservation and civic beautification.

Environment
12
Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Forest Open Lands Association and the most unlike its peers is Bissell Pet Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $54,069 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDLAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF HISTORY CENTER — $4,000 · OtherLAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF HISTORY CENTER+6 more — $3,284 · Other+6 moreBISSELL Pet Foundation — $1,350 · PhilanthropyGorton Community Center — $750 · Human ServicesFOREST PARK CONSERVANCY FKA FOREST PARK PRESERVATION CORPORATION — $250 · Human ServicesORPHANS OF THE STORM — $300 · AnimalsThe Anti-Cruelty Society — $200 · AnimalsELAWA FARM FOUNDATION — $450 · Arts & CultureNorth Chicago Community Partners — $250 · EducationLake Forest Police Foundation Inc — $200 · Crime & LegalLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION — $200 · Environment
Other$61,353Philanthropy$1,350Human Services$1,000Animals$500Arts & Culture$450Education$250Crime & Legal$200Environment$200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHistory Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGorton Community Center — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELAWA FARM FOUNDATION — $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST FOUNDATION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION — $450 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetORPHANS OF THE STORM — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Chicago Community Partners — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Anti-Cruelty Society — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Forest Police Foundation Inc — $200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Hunting FoundationFL20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hunting Foundation · Red Bird Hollow Foundation · Clarks Fork Foundation · Butler Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Robert G Shaw Family Foundation · Little Orchard Foundation · Carney Family Foundation · Hedberg Foundation Inc · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Dick Family Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Anne Hunting Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Anne Hunting Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Anne Hunting Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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