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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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 its 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
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

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IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
AZ
KS
TN
NC
OK
LA
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

+11%
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
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

  • PM
    PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +366%
  • 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%
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
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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2
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
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.

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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
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
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
Jobs for America's Graduates - Kansas I

Jag-k is committed to partnering with students to help them overcome challenges, graduate from high school, and prepare for college or career pathways that will help them reach their full potential as leaders for their families, employers,…

Education
11
Nurture Kc

Nurture kc is a community collaboration dedicated to reducting infant mortality and improving family health. we work together to change policy for broad impact, transform systems to improve health outcomes at a local level, and provide…

Health
12
Generating Income for Tomorrow

To provide assistance to minority-owned businesses in kansas city, mo low-income areas in the form of business grants and back office business support services.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Breakthrough Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

100 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. 100 of the 308 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/100
Grantees still filing
49/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 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, 0.1% 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 budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetKANBE'S MARKETS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYouth Guidance: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEAMSMILE INC: $23,963 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER KANSAS CITY SPORTS FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetKANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYOUTH AMBASSADORS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetRoberts Family Development Center: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SOUPER BOWL OF CARING INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALTCAP: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDERON CHERRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNORTH KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $11,354 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABILITY KC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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

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 Hunt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hunt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 308 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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