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Hunter Family Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k16 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $538k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+2 grants · $930k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHOENIX PACT FUND ATTN CHRI KELLY PRESIDENT | $600,000 |
| METROSQUASH | $330,000 |
| NORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREP HS | $175,000 |
| BERNIE'S BOOKS BOOK BANK DONATIONS | $145,000 |
| ROOM TO READ | $140,000 |
| IMENTOR | $125,000 |
| JOURNEYCARE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY | $100,000 |
| ERIE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER | $100,000 |
| BUILD ON | $75,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CHICAGO | $75,000 |
| YOUTH BUILD LAKE COUNTY | $65,000 |
| NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK | $60,000 |
| RARE | $50,000 |
| WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $713k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RTROOM TO READ2× · 2017–2018 · $250k · revenue +23%
- EFErie Family Health Center Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +114%
- RRARE2× · 2017–2018 · $80k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- LFLAKE FOREST NORTHWESTERN HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $500k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The school's mission is grounded in the belief expressed by b. lord buckley that opening the eyes and awakening the mind is the essence of education. guided by that mission for almost a century, buckley has purposely focused on developing…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youthbuild Lake County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Johann Fust Library Foundation 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
41 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. 41 of the 57 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds METROSQUASH NFP ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds IMENTOR INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) ↗
- Who funds RARE ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBUILD LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
- Who funds Colby-Sawyer College ↗
- Who funds PADS Lake County Inc ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds READING POWER INC ↗
- Who funds INGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds North Chicago Community Partners ↗
- Who funds TABOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS ↗
- Who funds Gorton Community Center ↗
- Who funds ELAWA FARM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds AQUANUT WATER SHOWS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hunter Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Buchanan Family Foundation · Red Bird Hollow Foundation · Clarks Fork Foundation · The Gorter Family Foundation · Butler Family Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family Foundation · Hedberg Foundation Inc · The Grainger Foundation Inc · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group
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 Hunter 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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