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Hunt Alternatives

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.

$984k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$100,771
Largest grant, FY2025
$409,706
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$1.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Hunt Alternatives funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Human ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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$564k83%
FY20242$12k50%
FY20234$187k50%
FY20227$33k100%
FY20212$265k50%
FY20207$31k86%
FY20193$60kn/a
64% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$430kHealth$62kCrime & Legal$28kHuman Services$17kCivil Rights$7kPublic Benefit$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MA
CA
CO
VA
SC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Center on Sexual Exploitation$530,77145%
Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc$250,0801n/a
Conservatory Lab Foundation Inc$200,00017%
Courtneys House Inc$12,0001n/a
Colorado Womens Hall of Fame$10,00012%
Egyptian Study Society Inc$2,0801n/a
Epik Project$2,00011%
Breaking Free Inc$1,7501n/a
Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc$1,75010%
Justice Resource Institute Inc$1,75010%
Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Hunt Alternatives by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Center on Sexual Exploitation$530,77145%
Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc$250,0801n/a
Conservatory Lab Foundation Inc$200,00017%
Courtneys House Inc$12,0001n/a
Colorado Womens Hall of Fame$10,00012%
Egyptian Study Society Inc$2,0801n/a
Epik Project$2,00011%
Breaking Free Inc$1,7501n/a
Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc$1,75010%
Justice Resource Institute Inc$1,75010%
Massachusetts Voter Education Network Inc$1,75010%
Organization for Prostitution Survivors$1,75010%
Mighty Is Her Call Inc$1,00010%

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($136k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hunt Alternatives supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Center on Sexual Exploitation: $530,771 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetConservatory Lab Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetColorado Womens Hall of Fame: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetEpik Project: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCasa Myrna Vazquez Inc: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJustice Resource Institute Inc: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Voter Education Network Inc: $1,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOrganization for Prostitution Survivors: $1,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMighty Is Her Call Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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.

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How do I get to Hunt Alternatives?

Find your warmest path to Hunt Alternatives 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 Hunt Alternatives

How much does Hunt Alternatives give?
Hunt Alternatives reported 8 grants totaling $983,637 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Hunt Alternatives fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (73%), Health (11%), Crime & Legal (5%).
Who are Hunt Alternatives's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: National Center on Sexual Exploitation ($531k), Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc ($250k), Conservatory Lab Foundation Inc ($200k).
Does Hunt Alternatives fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hunt Alternatives 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hunt Alternatives?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Hunt Alternatives based?
Hunt Alternatives is based in DC.

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 27 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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