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Hunt Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
75
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$738k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Community Improvement$4.6MArts & Culture$2.1MEducation$1.5MHealth$851kPhilanthropy$691kHuman Services$684kCrime & Legal$482kFood & Nutrition$434kOther$0
02FY2025 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k41 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $553k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $580k
  • $250k+1 grant · $738k
$6,783
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$738,406
UNITED WAY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY$121,161
CITY YEAR INC$100,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS$77,810
CHIEFS AMBASSADORS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$74,824
HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK$55,000
JACKSON COUNTY CASA$51,545
ATHLETES IN ACTION SPORTS COMPLEX AND RETREAT CENTER INC$50,000
YMCA FOUNDATION OF MID-AMERICA$50,000
NEWHOUSE INC$45,000
KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$42,000
VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT$35,535
FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION$35,010
PETE'S GARDEN INC$30,750
EARLYSTART$25,600
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $609k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DONNIE EDWARDS BEST DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%PAY AWAY THE LAYAWAY INC: $3k → 14%UNCORNERED INC: $5k → 16%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $43k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $40k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $25k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $118k → 5%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $450 → 15%HOPE CENTER: $28k → 15%HOPE CENTER: $26k → 15%CHAMPIONSHIP GREATNESS: $7k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $26k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $25k → 15%THIRD & LONG FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%THIRD & LONG FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%THIRD & LONG FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%THIRD & LONG FOUNDATION: $15k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $10k → 15%DERRICK THOMASNEIL SMITH THIRD AND LONG FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%MOTHERS REFUGE: $20k → 15%MOTHER'S REFUGE: $10k → 15%EARLYSTART: $30k → 15%EARLYSTART: $26k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE: $9k → 15%PETE'S GARDEN INC: $31k → 15%PETE'S GARDEN INC: $25k → 15%PETE'S GARDEN INC: $15k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
AZ
KS
TN
NC
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 98 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +3% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

98 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

98
187

Total granted

$11M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
0%

Still filing today

48%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureOther

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

  • PM
    PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +65%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $398k · revenue +4%
  • CA
    CHIEFS AMBASSADORS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $331k · revenue ×13 · 62% of their budget

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF KS HEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2021 · $373k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2022 · $287k
  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR KANSAS CITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $72k · revenue +28%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
2
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.

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3
Kansas Children's Service League Foundation

To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.

Philanthropy
4
Greater Kansas City Sports Commission

Focus and organize community support for the sporting events the city enjoys and facilitate the acquisition of additional sporting events.

—
5
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
6
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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7
Kansas Association of Community Action Programs Inc

Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.

Public Benefit
8
Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc

Front Porch Alliance works together with residents of Kansas City, Missouris eastside and urban core to meet their changing needs at home and in school.

Community Improvement
9
Kansas City Urban Youth Academy Inc

To provide kansas city youth with the opportunity to develop into high character, productive members of society and learn the skills of baseball.

Recreation & Sports
10
Kansas City Pet Project

Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.

Animals
11
Kids Win Missouri

Kids Win Missouri furthers child well-being by advancing the health, education, safety and development of Missouri children and their families, especially those who are at-risk because of poverty, abuse, neglect, racial inequities or other…

Human Services
12
Southeast Kansas Community Action P

Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City and the most unlike its peers is The Signatry Corporation Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMilitary Veterans SupportUnited Way AffiliatesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…School District FoundationsDomestic Violence ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Dance Arts OrganizationsYouth Development ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyYouth Sports ProgramsLocal Food System Organizat…Animal Rescue and ShelterChristian Youth CampsCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsFood Banks and PantriesElementary Literacy TutoringLocal History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 25 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr12%15%5–10yr16%23%10–20yr15%20%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr24%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr12%5%5–10yr16%17%10–20yr15%10%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr24%43%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/113
the rest of the field
12%
4,544/39,378

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.

04the grantee network

100 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. 100 of the 308 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/100
Grantees still filing
47/100
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES — $4,371,034 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESTHE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS — $490,118 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF KANSASCITY YEAR INC — $397,676 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF KS HEALTH SYSTEM — $373,363 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM — $286,883 · Other+147 more — $1,904,825 · Other+147 morePEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE — $2,000,000 · Arts & CulturePEROT MUSEUM OF NAT…+4 more — $53,100 · Arts & CultureCORNERSTONES OF CARE — $143,894 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $143,296 · Human ServicesDERRICK THOMAS NEIL SMITH THIRD AND — $85,000 · Human ServicesPETES GARDEN — $70,750 · Human ServicesUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC — $55,600 · Human ServicesTHE HOPE CENTER INC — $53,500 · Human ServicesMothers Refuge — $30,190 · Human Services+5 more — $26,085 · Human ServicesCHIEFS AMBASSADORS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $331,412 · PhilanthropyGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $111,860 · PhilanthropyYMCA FOUNDATION OF MID-AMERICA — $101,500 · PhilanthropyRoberts Family Development Center — $20,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $23,800 · PhilanthropyMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT — $253,879 · Crime & LegalTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC — $65,502 · Crime & LegalPOLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY — $35,000 · Crime & LegalCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $30,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $10,000 · Crime & LegalHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $322,809 · Food & NutritionKANBE'S MARKETS — $25,000 · Food & NutritionTHE SOUPER BOWL OF CARING INC — $20,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $15,000 · Food & NutritionFOLDS OF HONOR KANSAS CITY INC — $72,214 · EducationKANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $72,000 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $70,950 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $59,534 · EducationTURN THE PAGE KC INC — $56,000 · EducationYouth Guidance — $25,000 · EducationNORTH KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $12,500 · Education+5 more — $6,800 · Education
Other$7,823,899Arts & Culture$2,053,100Human Services$608,315Philanthropy$588,572Crime & Legal$394,381Food & Nutrition$382,809Education$374,998

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE — $2,000,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $397,676 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHIEFS AMBASSADORS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $331,412 over 5y, 62% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $322,809 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT — $253,879 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc — $189,310 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF CARE — $143,894 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $143,296 over 2y, 0.3% of budget15 AND THE MAHOMIES FOUNDATION — $115,050 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $111,860 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $109,427 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYMCA FOUNDATION OF MID-AMERICA — $101,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetDERRICK THOMAS NEIL SMITH THIRD AND — $85,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City — $84,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY CASA — $79,045 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR KANSAS CITY INC — $72,214 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetKANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $72,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $70,950 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPETES GARDEN — $70,750 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetNEWHOUSE INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC — $65,502 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $59,534 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTURN THE PAGE KC INC — $56,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC — $55,600 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER INC — $53,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFOOTPRINTS INC — $49,208 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOPERATION SHOWER — $41,375 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPOLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY — $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMothers Refuge — $30,190 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Guidance — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKANBE'S MARKETS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTEAMSMILE INC — $23,963 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER KANSAS CITY SPORTS FOUNDATION — $23,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetYOUTH AMBASSADORS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetKANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SOUPER BOWL OF CARING INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetRoberts Family Development Center — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALTCAP — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetDERON CHERRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetWreaths Across America — $11,354 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABILITY KC — $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

United Way of Greater…Greater Kansas City C…Hallmark Corporate Fo…The Kansas City Royal…The H & R Block Found…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Jackson County Commun…Health Forward Founda…William T Kemper Foun…Oppenstein Brothers F…The Sunderland Founda…Commerce Bancshares F…
United Way of Greater Kansas City IncMO64× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · Health Forward Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Commerce Bancshares 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 Hunt Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
31report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Hunt Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 308 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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