· Private foundation
Hunterward Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $189k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST | $150,000 |
| KEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR | $100,000 |
| ATLANTIC PUBLIC MEDIA | $25,000 |
| THE STARS OF TOMORROW PROJECT | $20,000 |
| BAHAMA VILLAGE MUSIC PROGRAM | $17,500 |
| TERRENCE MCNALLY NEW WORKS INC | $15,000 |
| RED BARN THEATRE | $15,000 |
| A POSITIVE STEP OF MONROE COUNTY INC | $15,000 |
| KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDENS | $11,000 |
| FRINGE THEATRE OF KEY WEST | $10,000 |
| MONROE COUNCIL OF THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| THE MEMORY PROJECT PRODUCTION INC | $10,000 |
| TENNESSEE WILLIAMS THEATER | $10,000 |
| TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| QUEER KEYS COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
48 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 23 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- TSTHE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +7% · 49% of their budget
- KWKEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR INC7× · 2017–2024 · $390k · revenue +175%
- FTFRINGE THEATER OF KEY WEST INC5× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +199%
Funded once
- KWKEY WEST MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY AT THE CUSTOME HOUSEone grant, 2021 · $55k
- TSTAKE STOCK OF THE CHILDRENone grant, 2020 · $40k
- TWTENNESSEE WILLIAMS FINE ARTS CENTERone grant, 2020 · $40k
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.
Kwtcs is a theater, community stage and gathering place, that serves as a springboard to ignite creative excellence, quality entertainment, intellectual stimulation, challenge and opportunity.
To promote moving-picture media as an essential art form to educate and engage members and visitors through the presentation of film, video, and new media. To maintain and develop Tropic Cinema as the principal venue for the Key West Film…
Provide performing arts to the florida keys.
Dedicated to the conservation and preservation of the waters in and around south florida through wise fishery & watermanagement practices, while recognizing the importance of sport fishing to the local economy and the cultural heritage of…
Promotion of the arts in key west by providing a cultural center to be used for art exhibits, education, and the encouragement of artistic development throughout the community.
To preserve Key Wests Little White House, Floridas only presidential museum, and programming that supports civic engagement, education, and the historic and cultural influences of the Truman era.
Rescue, rehabilitate, and release native and migratory wild birds harmed or displaced; provide or locate a humane shelter for those birds that cannot be released; and educate the public.
To Provide financial support for the Monroe County Public Library in Key West, FL
The mission of the key west art and historical society is to preserve the culture of the florida keys through exhibiting and displaying regional art, architecture, and history for the purpoose of educating the community and visiting public.
Operate a community center for the benefit of the citizens of the key peninsula.
Film Florida was formed to proide a leadership role in Floridas film and entertainment production industry.
Kwwc's mission is to ensure the future of lower key's native wildlife through timely rescues and quality rehabilitation with hope of return to the wild. we provide educational services via our aviary and relocation and care services of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Studios of Key West and the most unlike its peers is Point Foundation. 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 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 64 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 THE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds BAHAMA VILLAGE MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FRINGE THEATER OF KEY WEST INC ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds A POSITIVE STEP OF MONROE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Reef Relief Inc ↗
- Who funds POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE STARS OF TOMORROW PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE MEMORY PROJECT PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS COMPANY THEATRE 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Florida Keys · The Dogwood Foundation · Edward B and Joan T Knight Foundati Foundation Inc · Harry & Harriet Ruchman Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Pantano Family Foundation Inc · The Ferris Foundation · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Hunterward 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.
- Atlantic Public Media Inc — 5% of income from government
- Ah of Monroe County — 1% of income from government
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 0% of income from government
- Monroe Council of the Arts Corporation — 0% of income from government
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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