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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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2018
56
Grants FY2018
14
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$1.6MHealth$1.0MCivil Rights$1.0MEnvironment$265kYouth Development$140kArts & Culture$128kReligion$125kEmployment$125kOther$0
02FY2018 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k16 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $538k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+2 grants · $930k
$22,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ERIE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER$100,000
BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY$100,000
JOURNEYCARE FOUNDATION$100,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CHICAGO$75,000
BUILD ON$75,000
YOUTH BUILD LAKE COUNTY$65,000
NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK$60,000
RARE$50,000
WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL$50,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 8%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

NH
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
DC
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 36 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
1

Total granted

$3.6M
$500k

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $713k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • RT
    ROOM TO READ
    2× · 2017–2018 · $250k · revenue +37%
  • EF
    Erie Family Health Center Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +114%
  • R
    RARE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $80k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • LF
    LAKE FOREST NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
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
Lake Forest College

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…

Education
2
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

—
3
Lake Forest Academy

Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
5
University of New Haven

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…

Education
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
8
Furman University

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.

Education
9
Buckley Country Day School

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…

Education
10
Illinois College

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…

Education
11
South Shore Charter School

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…

Education
12
Golden Gate University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youthbuild Lake County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
34/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHOENIX PACT FUND ATTN CHRI KELLY PRESIDENT: $1,000,000 · OtherPHOENIX PACT FUND ATTN CHRI KELLY PRESIDENTLAKE FOREST NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL: $500,000 · OtherLAKE FOREST NORTHWESTERN HOSPITALNORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREP HS: $375,000 · OtherNORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREP HSBERNIE'S BOOKS BOOK BANK DONATIONS: $295,000 · OtherBERNIE'S BOOKS BOOK BANK DONATIONS+29 more: $1,023,000 · Other+29 moreROOM TO READ: $250,000 · EducationROOM TO R…Colby-Sawyer College: $50,000 · EducationColby-Saw…TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $40,000 · EducationTRUSTEES …North Chicago Community Partners: $22,500 · EducationNorth Chi…TABOR ACADEMY: $20,000 · EducationTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $15,000 · Education+2 more: $20,000 · EducationMETROSQUASH NFP: $380,000 · Recreation & SportsMETROSQUA…AQUANUT WATER SHOWS INC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsErie Family Health Center Inc: $200,000 · HealthPADS Lake County Inc: $50,000 · HealthKIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE: $25,000 · HealthRARE: $80,000 · EnvironmentLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $60,000 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentBRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS: $20,000 · EnvironmentGASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN: $10,000 · EnvironmentBARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentIMENTOR INC: $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentREADING POWER INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTHBUILD LAKE COUNTY INC: $65,000 · EmploymentNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $60,000 · Employment
Other$3,193,000Education$417,500Recreation & Sports$395,000Health$275,000Environment$225,000Youth Development$155,000Employment$125,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMETROSQUASH NFP: $380,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetROOM TO READ: $250,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetErie Family Health Center Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIMENTOR INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation): $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBRIDGES TO PROSPERITY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRARE: $80,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHistory Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff: $65,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetYOUTHBUILD LAKE COUNTY INC: $65,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $60,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $60,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPADS Lake County Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetColby-Sawyer College: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $43,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES: $40,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetREADING POWER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetKIDS FIRST HEALTH CARE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNorth Chicago Community Partners: $22,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetELAWA FARM FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTABOR ACADEMY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGorton Community Center: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAQUANUT WATER SHOWS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetLAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY & FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Hunter Family Foundat…The Chicago Community…The Buchanan Family F…Red Bird Hollow Found…Clarks Fork FoundationThe Gorter Family Fou…Butler Family Foundat…John and Kathleen Sch…Harold M & Adeline S …Hedberg Foundation IncThe Grainger Foundati…Northwestern Memorial…
Hunter Family FoundationIL47.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    8get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hunter Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hunter 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 57 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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