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Hunting Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $6,000 |
| THE LOST TREE CHAPEL | $6,000 |
| GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH ESPICOPAL VICARAGE | $5,000 |
| BEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY | $3,000 |
| ELENA FARM FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS | $2,500 |
| BEAVER ISLAND RURAL HEALTH CENTER | $2,000 |
| BEAVER ISLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL | $2,000 |
| BEAVER ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,000 |
| YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACHES | $2,000 |
| GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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.
37 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- JBJOHN BALL ZOO5× · 2017–2022 · $53k · revenue +252%
- HCHistory Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff4× · 2017–2020 · $31k · revenue +16%
- BIBEAVER ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- NSNORTHWOOD SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -20%
- OROPEN ROADS ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +72%
- BIBEAVER ISLAND COMMUNITY HOUSEone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.
To engage and inspire, encouraging stewardship of wildlife and water.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
To cultivate a growing international culture of listening.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
Glacial Lakes Conservancy, as a land trust, is a nonprofit organization that, as part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisitions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Forest Open Lands Association and the most unlike its peers is Bissell Pet 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 53 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 JOHN BALL ZOO ↗
- Who funds History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff ↗
- Who funds GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEAVER ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION OF THE PAL ↗
- Who funds BEAVER ISLAND CULTURAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Beaver Island Rural Health Center ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds Gorton Community Center ↗
- Who funds JustWorld International Inc ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE PASS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN ROADS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BISSELL Pet Foundation ↗
- Who funds ORPHANS OF THE STORM ↗
- Who funds A Way Out Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST FOUNDATION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION ↗
- Who funds Lake Forest Police Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lake Forest College ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOOVED ANIMAL RESCUE & PROTECTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
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: Anne Hunting Foundation · Clarks Fork Foundation · Butler Family Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Little Orchard Foundation · Hedberg Foundation Inc · Red Bird Hollow Foundation · Harold M & Adeline S Morrison Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Keystone Charitable Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Carney Family Foundation
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 Hunting 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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