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Caroline Hunter Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$650k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
17%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$70,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$325,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 7
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$5.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Caroline Hunter Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$650k17%
FY20246$650k17%
FY20236$580k0%
FY20227$570k0%
FY20217$570k14%
FY20206$450k0%
FY20196$450k0%
FY20176$450kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$2.6MEducation$1.5MArts & Culture$250k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Atlantic Cape Community College Foundati$255,00056%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.1M), not named here.

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How do I get to Caroline Hunter Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Caroline Hunter Charitable Trust 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.

About Caroline Hunter Charitable Trust

How much does Caroline Hunter Charitable Trust give?
Caroline Hunter Charitable Trust reported 6 grants totaling $650,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Caroline Hunter Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (59%), Education (35%), Arts & Culture (6%).
Who are Caroline Hunter Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Atlantic Cape Community College Foundati ($255k).
Does Caroline Hunter Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Caroline Hunter Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Caroline Hunter Charitable Trust based?
Caroline Hunter Charitable Trust is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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