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Hunter Houle Memorial Foundation
Hunter Houle was an 18-year old snowmobile racer from Forest Lake, MN, who lost his life in a practice accident in January of 2017.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $150,450 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $186,851 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $36,401 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SnoCross Mobile Medical Team Inc | $40,000 |
| Bethel University BUILD Program | $25,000 |
| Crescent Cove | $15,000 |
| Young Mens Christian Foundation of the North | $10,000 |
| Every Meal | $10,000 |
| American Institute for Avanlanche Research and Education Inc | $10,000 |
| Wings for Life USA | $10,000 |
| Northwestern Minnesota Juvenile Center | $7,750 |
| Compass Program | $7,700 |
| Sleep In Heavenly Peace Inc | $7,500 |
| The Education Foundation of the Forest Lake Area | $7,500 |
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 (FY23–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- SMSnocross Mobile Medical Team Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +18%
- CCCRESCENT COVE2× · 2023–2024 · $23k · revenue +29%
- AIAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR AVALANCHE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- RFREACH FOR RESOURCES INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +33%
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.
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United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
Promote health through skiing
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
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…
To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reach for Resources Inc and the most unlike its peers is Snocross Mobile Medical Team Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 12 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 Snocross Mobile Medical Team Inc ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT COVE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR AVALANCHE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds Wings for Life USA - Spinal Cord Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE FOREST LAKE AREA ↗
- Who funds REACH FOR RESOURCES INC ↗
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.
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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 Houle Memorial 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.
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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