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Hull 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.

$21M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$9.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$9.9MPhilanthropy$7.3MHealth$2.4MHousing & Shelter$1.2MEnvironment$816kPublic Benefit$550kEducation$534kCommunity Improvement$424kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k4 grants · $670k
  • $250k+7 grants · $20M
$344,301
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
11881664 GENERATION IM GLOBAL EQ ON 7124 BV XXX-XX-XXXX$9,721,221
HULL FAMILY FUND DONOR ADVISED FUND$6,562,564
1428833504 MICRO VEST SDF - TRA A ON 4124 WITH BV OF 2353207$2,114,673
XXX-XX-XXXX ELEVAR EQUITY III ON 3124 BV 20790500$903,651
XXX-XX-XXXX CONSERVATION FOREST III ON 33124 BV 26120134$407,611
XXX-XX-XXXX SJF VENTURES III LP ON 1124 BV 17836306$344,301
XXX-XX-XXXX SARONA FRNTR MRKTS 2 ON 4124 BV 25371428$341,451
XXX-XX-XXXX C LOOP V II INTEREST ON 33124 WITH BV OF 23082046$202,980
XXX-XX-XXXX EVRNU SER A-2 PREF ON 2924 BV 18345780$179,783
XXX-XX-XXXX LEAPFROG FINANCIAL IN II ON 4124 BV 14487700$165,088
91000000 EVRNU SERIES B PREFERRED ON 2924 BV 7893120$121,940
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOUTHEAST ASIAN MAA COALITION INC: $5k → 22%ANNIECANNONS INC: $10k → 10%MAKE THE ROAD STATES INC: $10k → 20%KANA SAMURAI FOUNDATION: $25k → 5%URBAN DREAMS: $15k → 10%PUBLIC ALLIES INC: $15k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 10%SOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND INC: $15k → 13%MISERICORDIA HOME: $10k → 14%MISERICORDIA HOME: $5k → 14%ANNIECANNONS INC: $10k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $25k → 14%CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER - CARECEN - OF CA: $20k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $10k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
ID
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

10%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 44 repeat orgs$22M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
82

Total granted

$2.4M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+7%

Still filing today

98%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21M 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
EducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $250k · revenue +157%
  • CV
    CONSERVATION VOTERS FOR IDAHO EDUCATION FUND INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $210k · revenue +29% · 33% of their budget
  • GW
    GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • UA
    UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +150%
  • Vanderbilt University
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -1%
  • UF
    UNCONDITIONAL FREEDOM
    one grant, 2022 · $38k · revenue -22%
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
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
4
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
5
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
6
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
7
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

—
8
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
9
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
10
Voteamerica

The mission of voteamerica is to strengthen united states democracy by increasing voter turnout.

Civil Rights
11
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
12
UltraViolet Education Fund

Ultraviolet education fund (uvef) is a 501c3 organization. ultraviolet is the premier national organization advocating for gender justice issues using creative, strategic campaigning and digital-first organizing. ultraviolet drives…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy; the most unlike its peers is The 5 Gyres Institute. 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

122 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 122 of the 145 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
121/122
Grantees still filing
78/122
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

11881664 GENERATION IM GLOBAL EQ ON 7124 BV XXX-XX-XXXX: $9,721,221 · Other11881664 GENERATION IM GLOBAL EQ ON 7124 BV XXX-XX-XXXXHULL FAMILY FUND DONOR ADVISED FUND: $6,562,564 · OtherHULL FAMILY FUND DONOR ADVISED FUND1428833504 MICRO VEST SDF - TRA A ON 4124 WITH BV OF 2353207: $2,114,673 · Other1428833504 MICRO VEST SDF - TRA A ON 4124 WITH BV OF 2353207XXX-XX-XXXX ELEVAR EQUITY III ON 3124 BV 20790500: $903,651 · Other+78 more: $3,460,254 · Other+78 moreRUSH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $165,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND: $40,000 · PhilanthropySolidaire Network Inc: $35,000 · PhilanthropyEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCONSERVATION VOTERS FOR IDAHO EDUCATION FUND INC: $210,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $80,000 · Civil RightsMISSISSIPPI VOTES: $50,000 · Civil RightsPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC: $30,000 · Civil RightsMI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $30,000 · Civil RightsA HEALTHIER DEMOCRACY INC: $30,000 · Civil RightsVOTERIDERS: $30,000 · Civil RightsChicago Votes: $25,000 · Civil RightsGeorgia Muslim Voter Project: $20,000 · Civil RightsHEAD COUNT INC: $20,000 · Civil Rights+3 more: $25,000 · Civil RightsUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR AMERICAS FUTURE INC: $80,000 · EducationVanderbilt University: $50,000 · EducationButler University: $30,000 · Education+10 more: $92,000 · EducationGeorge Mark Childrens Fund: $160,000 · HealthMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC: $45,000 · HealthBLACKJACK HALL OF FAME INC: $30,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY: $20,000 · HealthFORWARD MT FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthDYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,000 · Health+5 more: $28,000 · HealthTIDES CENTER: $70,000 · Human ServicesIEA CHILDRENS FUND: $30,000 · Human ServicesDC BOOKS TO PRISONS: $30,000 · Human ServicesKana Samurai Foundation: $25,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $25,000 · Human ServicesAnnieCannons Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCentral American Resource Center - CARECEN - of California: $20,000 · Human ServicesURBAN DREAMS: $15,000 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA HOME: $15,000 · Human ServicesPUBLIC ALLIES INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND INC: $15,000 · Human Services+2 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesUNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy Inc: $95,000 · Public BenefitLoud Light: $50,000 · Public BenefitTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $35,000 · Public BenefitKENTUCKY COALITION INC: $15,000 · Public Benefit
Other$22,762,363Philanthropy$570,000Civil Rights$550,000Education$502,000Health$318,000Human Services$315,000Public Benefit$295,000

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 budgetRUSH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCONSERVATION VOTERS FOR IDAHO EDUCATION FUND INC: $210,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $165,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC: $165,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetGeorge Mark Childrens Fund: $160,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSTARLINGS VOLLEYBALL USA: $100,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetUNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $95,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR AMERICAS FUTURE INC: $80,000 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetKIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $78,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION DIGNITY INC: $63,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLoud Light: $50,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI VOTES: $50,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetGREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE: $45,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNCONDITIONAL FREEDOM: $38,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $38,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $38,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetButler University: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHABITABLE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBLACKJACK HALL OF FAME INC: $30,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetIEA CHILDRENS FUND: $30,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetDC BOOKS TO PRISONS: $30,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetA HEALTHIER DEMOCRACY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVOTERIDERS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe 5 Gyres Institute: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $26,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Votes: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBay Area Community Services Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlameda County Homeless Action Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKana Samurai Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% 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.

NEO Philanthropy IncNew Venture FundAmalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationEast Bay Community Fo…ImpactassetsincWindward FundThe San Francisco Fou…Rockefeller Philanthr…Silicon Valley Commun…Alliance for Youth Or…Marin Community Found…
NEO Philanthropy IncNY38.6× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Windward Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Alliance for Youth Organizing · Marin Community 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 Hull Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hull Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

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    How do I get to Hull Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hull 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 145 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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