· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS | $2,500 |
| ELENA FARM FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACHES | $2,000 |
| BEAVER ISLAND RURAL HEALTH CENTER | $2,000 |
| BEAVER ISLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL | $2,000 |
| BEAVER ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,000 |
| A WAY OUT | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hunting Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hunting Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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