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Hunter's Hope Foundation Inc

Hunter's hope foundation was established to address the acute need for information and research with respect to krabbe disease and related leukodystrophies.

$334k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.7M
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $267,290, the rows itemized in this filing. The $334,179 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $66,889 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $260k
$20,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUKE UNIVERSITY$40,000
COSTELLO MEDICAL INC$34,790
KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRIMARY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERGOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$20,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF SAN ANTONIO$20,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH - UPMC$20,000
ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO$20,000
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA$20,000
NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$15,000
ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$10,000
UC DAVIS HEALTH SYSTEM$7,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $40k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH - UPMC: $20k → 11%UC DAVIS HEALTH SYSTEM: $20k → 12%JOHN R OISHEI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALOKALEIDA HEALTH: $20k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERGOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $20k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRIMARY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $30k → 8%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $20k → 14%NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20k → 15%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $20k → 14%FOUNDATION OF MORRISTOWN: $20k → 4%KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE: $30k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $30k → 16%UC DAVIS HEALTH SYSTEM: $20k → 12%JOHN R OISHEI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO: $20k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERGOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRIMARY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $30k → 8%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $20k → 14%NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20k → 15%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $20k → 14%KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE: $30k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $20k → 16%UC DAVIS HEALTH SYSTEM: $20k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERGOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRIMARY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DR JOSHUA BONKOWSKY): $25k → 8%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $20k → 14%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $20k → 14%KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE: $20k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $20k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERGOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRIMARY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20k → 8%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $20k → 14%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $20k → 14%KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE: $20k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $20k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERGOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRIMARY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DR JOSHUA BONKOWSKY): $20k → 8%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $20k → 14%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $20k → 14%KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE: $20k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $20k → 16%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $140k → 11%COSTELLO MEDICAL INC: $35k → 16%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

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
MO
MD
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 10 repeat orgs$245k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
14

Total granted

$1.5M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+45%

Still filing today

50%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationOther
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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $350k · revenue +51%
  • Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    8× · 2018–2025 · $160k · revenue +44%
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    8× · 2018–2025 · $150k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • PC
    PRIMARY CHILDREN'S CANCER
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • FF
    Foundation for Morristown Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +28%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +144%
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
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
5
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
6
Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health
7
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
8
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
11
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
12
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Aidan Jack Seeger 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

16 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. 16 of the 28 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE INC: $180,000 · OtherKENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE INCMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $150,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $145,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $140,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTAUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $82,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISCOSTELLO MEDICAL INC: $34,790 · Other+7 more: $90,000 · Other+7 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $350,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $20,000 · EducationAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $160,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Child…Nationwide Children's Hospital Inc: $80,000 · HealthNationwide Children's Hosp…CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDA…Foundation for Morristown Medical Center: $20,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthKALEIDA HEALTH: $20,000 · Health+6 more: $60,000 · Health+6 more
Other$822,290Education$520,000Health$400,000

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 budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $350,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $160,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $150,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNationwide Children's Hospital Inc: $80,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKALEIDA HEALTH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIDAN JACK SEEGER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUCILE SALTER PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT STANFORD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $10,000 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.

  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds Nationwide Children's Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KALEIDA HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds AIDAN JACK SEEGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds LUCILE SALTER PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT STANFORD ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S NATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL ↗

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.

The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Hunter's Hope Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hunter's Hope Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    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.
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    How do I get to Hunter's Hope Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Hunter's Hope Foundation Inc 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 28 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 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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