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David and Alice Hunt Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$12kArts & Culture$8kEducation$3kHealth$2kCommunity Improvement$900Food & Nutrition$240
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAY STREET THEATER$1,000
FUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC$500
BRIDGEHAMPTON VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRIDGEHAMPTON VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY: $400 → 7%NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $500 → 17%NTARUPT: $750 → 14%HEALTHY FUTURES: $200 → 9%JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC: $250 → 16%BRIDGEHAMPTON VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY: $400 → 7%FUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $500 → 17%NTARUPT: $470 → 14%JAZZ HOUSE KIDS: $100 → 16%BRIDGEHAMPTON VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY: $100 → 7%FUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $500 → 17%NTARUPT: $250 → 14%JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC: $100 → 16%BAY STREET THEATER: $1k → 7%FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $120 → 17%MY HOCKADAY SCHOOL: $600 → 14%BAY STREET THEATER: $1k → 7%THE FUND FOR PARK AVENUE: $250 → 17%HOCKADAY SCHOOL: $500 → 14%FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $120 → 17%HOCKADAY SCHOOL: $500 → 14%FUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $250 → 17%HOCKADAY SCHOOL: $500 → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY NEW YORK: $5k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LES ARTS FLORISSANTS: $2k → 17%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5k → 17%PREP FOR PREP: $500 → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LES ARTS FLORISSANTS: $2k → 17%SECOND STAGE THEATER: $500 → 17%THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14k · 9 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -21% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$14k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-21%

Still filing today

89%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LES ARTS FLORISSANTS INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $4k · revenue +66%
  • HS
    HOCKADAY SCHOOL
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2k · revenue +32%
  • BS
    BAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NATURE CONSERVANCY NEW YORK
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • PF
    PREP FOR PREP
    one grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue -32%
  • NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue -21%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
2
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
3
The New York Festival of Song Inc

NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among…

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4
The New Group Inc

The new group is an artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. while constantly evolving, we maintain an ensemble approach to all our work and an articulated style of emotional…

Arts & Culture
5
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
6
Theatre for a New Audience Inc

The mission of theatre for a new audience is to develop and vitalize the performance and study of shakespeare and classic drama. the theatre is dedicated to the language and ideas of writers - to a dialogue over centuries between…

Arts & Culture
7
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
8
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
9
Atlantic Theater Company

At Atlantic, our aim is singular: to empower simple and honest storytelling that fosters greater understanding of our shared world. Across our work, we are a family of artists dedicated to exploring essential truths onstage, be it a show…

Arts & Culture
10
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
11
Bow Street Theatre Trust
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12
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bridgehampton Village Improvement Society Inc. 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY NEW YORK: $5,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY NEW YORKNTARUPT: $1,470 · OtherNTARUPTBRIDGEHAMPTON VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC: $900 · OtherBRIDGEHAMPTON VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC+2 more: $411 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LES ARTS FLORISSANTS INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LES ARTS FLORIS…BAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureBAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INCTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INCNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS IN…JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC: $450 · Arts & CultureJAZZ HOUSE KIDS INCHOCKADAY SCHOOL: $2,100 · EducationHOCKADAY SC…PREP FOR PREP: $500 · EducationPREP FOR PR…FUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $1,500 · EnvironmentFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $240 · Community Improvement
Other$12,781Arts & Culture$7,950Education$2,600Environment$1,500Community Improvement$240

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LES ARTS FLORISSANTS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOCKADAY SCHOOL: $2,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEHAMPTON VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC: $900 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $240 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David and Alice Hunt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David and Alice Hunt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 29%
  • Jazz House Kids Inc: 29% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to David and Alice Hunt Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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