· Private foundation
Hufty 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k109 grants · $200k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Archbold Expeditions | $72,600 |
| MOVIE GUIDE | $20,000 |
| The Leadership Insitute | $10,000 |
| Prager University | $10,000 |
| Archbold Biological Research Statio | $8,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Bay Area Barns and Trails | $6,000 |
| Christ Church | $6,000 |
| Wolf | $5,000 |
| Freedom Works | $4,200 |
| Commonwealth Foundation | $4,200 |
| Heritage Foundation | $4,000 |
| Judicial Watch | $4,000 |
| Barking Out Loud Rescue | $4,000 |
| National Right to Work Foundation | $3,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
106 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AEARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $222k · revenue +197%
- RSRare Species Conservatory Foundation7× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +813%
- OOORGANIZATION OF BIOLOGICAL FIELD STATIONS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +173%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- IFInspiring Film Foundationone grant, 2018 · $5k
- CACALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCESone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +20%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
See schedule odedicated to rescuing, protecting and providing sanctuary for elephants worldwide. our founding directors and elephant care specialist consult internationally for the wellbeing of captive elephants. currently based in brazil,…
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bay Area Barns and Trails. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
94 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 94 of the 177 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Rare Species Conservatory Foundation ↗
- Who funds Childrens Jubilee Fund ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION OF BIOLOGICAL FIELD STATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE CHIMPS INC ↗
- Who funds Capstone Legacy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Bay ↗
- Who funds Environmental Volunteers Inc ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Center for Children and Adults Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Elkind Family Foundation · The James and Rebecca Morgan Family Foundation · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Texas Instruments Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · The Palo Alto Community Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community 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 Hufty 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Archbold Expeditions Inc — 9% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
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.