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Huffner Familiy Foundation Inc at a glance

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Huffner Familiy Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$60kReligion$46kHealth$36kEmployment$5kArts & Culture$5kEducation$3kAnimals$3kPublic Benefit$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST ANDREW CHURCH$15,000
HO'OLA NA PUA$12,500
OVER THE RAINBOW ASSOCIATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,100
SHEPHERD CENTER$4,000
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SOLDIERS & SAILORS MUSEUM: $5k → 11%WATCHFUL SHEPERD: $2k → 12%CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%THE HONOR FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%ST JUDE: $5k → 17%ST BENEDICT SCHOOL: $2k → 8%SOUTHEASTERN BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%ST TIMOTHY: $500 → 14%ST FRANCIS XAVIER SCHOOL: $1k → 14%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY: $10k → 17%OVER THE RAINBOW ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%WATCHFUL SHEPHERD USA: $1k → 12%ST JUDE: $1k → 17%ARCHDIOCESE OF ATLANTA: $1k → 8%SOUTHEAST BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%WATCHFUL SHEPHERD USA: $1k → 12%LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $1k → 8%SOUTHEAST BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%WATCHFUL SHEPERD: $1k → 12%ST ANDREW CHURCH: $15k → 13%ST ANDREW CHURCH: $15k → 13%ST ANDREW CHURCH: $6k → 13%BLESSED TRINITY: $5k → 13%ST ANDREW CHURCH: $3k → 13%THE SHEPHERD CENTER: $5k → 13%SHEPHERD CENTER: $4k → 13%ST BENEDICT CHURCH: $3k → 13%ST JOHN'S CHURCH: $3k → 13%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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$124k · 8 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
16

Total granted

$124k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
0%

Still filing today

38%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEmploymentPublic BenefitCrime & LegalOther
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

  • HN
    HO'OLA NA PUA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $48k · revenue +65%
  • SC
    SHEPHERD CENTER INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +18%
  • WS
    WATCHFUL SHEPHERD USA
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +39%
  • CR
    CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue -2%
  • SB
    SOUTHEASTERN BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Sharon Strauss Parker Lymphoma Research Foundation Inc dba Life Lover Found

Funding Cancer Research

Health
2
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
3
Spinal Research Foundation D/B/a National Spine Health Foundation
Health
4
Quick Reaction Foundation

Quick reaction foundation (qrf) is a non-profit organization founded by veterans to provide rapid response to the developing needs of elite operators and their families from within select u.s. special operations command ("ussocom") teams.…

Public Benefit
5
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
6
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
7
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children

To provide the highest quality care to improve the lives of children with orthopedic and related conditions and specific learning disabilities. texas scottish rite hospital for children focuses on patient care, research and education.

Health
8
Soteria Precision Medicine Foundation Inc

Soteria Precision Medicine Foundation is dedicated to empowering patients and physicians with personalized precision medicine solutions.

Health
9
Hopper-Belmont Foundation

Cancer research support

Science & Tech
10
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
11
Solving Kids' Cancer Inc

Skc impacts children through the initiation of clinical research trials of investigative treatment strategies. our vision is to continue expanding the armamentarium of effective and less toxic treartment strategies for pediatric…

Health
12
The Search Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is 50 for the Fallen. 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 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST ANDREW CHURCH: $39,000 · OtherST ANDREW CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $10,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY: $10,000 · OtherCHRIST CHILD SOCIETYOVER THE RAINBOW ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · OtherOVER THE RAINBOW ASSOCIATIONSOUTHEAST BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherSOUTHEAST BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATIONST JUDE: $6,000 · OtherST JUDECHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF ATLANTA: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherSOLDIERS & SAILORS MUSEUM: $4,500 · Other+7 more: $12,500 · Other+7 moreHO'OLA NA PUA: $47,500 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA PUACYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $12,000 · HealthCYSTINOSIS RESEA…SOUTHEASTERN BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthSOUTHEASTERN BRA…SHEPHERD CENTER INC: $9,000 · HealthSHEPHERD CENTER …+1 more: $1,000 · HealthGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINIS…THE HONOR FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Employment50 For The Fallen: $2,500 · Public BenefitWATCHFUL SHEPHERD USA: $2,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$109,600Human Services$47,500Health$32,000Philanthropy$20,000Employment$5,000Public Benefit$2,500Crime & Legal$2,000

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 budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $47,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetOVER THE RAINBOW ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF ATLANTA: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budget50 For The Fallen: $2,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetWATCHFUL SHEPHERD USA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds HO'OLA NA PUA ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEASTERN BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OVER THE RAINBOW ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HONOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF ATLANTA ↗
  • Who funds 50 For The Fallen ↗
  • Who funds WATCHFUL SHEPHERD USA ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Huffner Familiy Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Huffner Familiy Foundation Inc. 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Huffner Familiy Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Huffner Familiy Foundation Inc 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 25 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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