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Hunter Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$493k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
34
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$56,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 20
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Hunter Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthOther
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 arriving34$493k44%
FY202419$26k0%
FY202319$26k0%
FY202220$26k0%
FY202120$26k0%
FY202020$26k5%
FY201919$26k5%
FY201819$26k16%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$321kEducation$128kHuman Services$67kRecreation & Sports$66kAnimals$38kInternational$27kReligion$12kYouth Development$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
NY
MA
CA
VA
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($208k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hunter Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Carroll Center for the Blind Inc: $61,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $39,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetIslands Community Medical Services: $37,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $34,700 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $32,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTailored for Education Inc: $32,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAtaxia Telangiectasia Children's Project Inc: $24,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetAlzheimer's Foundation of America Inc: $23,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetColby-Sawyer College: $23,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBuddy Dog Humane Society Inc: $22,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetPerkins School for the Blind: $17,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bethania Foundation: $17,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetYankee Golden Retriever Rescue Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFather's Daymother's Day Council Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $9,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $8,380 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSemper Fi & America's Fund: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetA Place To Turn Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpark Kindness Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 21.

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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.

Community Foundation for MetroWest IncMA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · MutualOne Charitable Foundation · The Sudbury Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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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About Hunter Family Charitable Trust

How much does Hunter Family Charitable Trust give?
Hunter Family Charitable Trust reported 34 grants totaling $493,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Hunter Family Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (46%), Education (18%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Hunter Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc ($62k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($39k), Islands Community Medical Services ($38k).
Does Hunter Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hunter Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hunter Family Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc, Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc, MutualOne Charitable Foundation.
Where is Hunter Family Charitable Trust based?
Hunter Family Charitable Trust is based in MA.

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 39 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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