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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.

$56k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$110kArts & Culture$109kPhilanthropy$74kAnimals$66kEnvironment$48kScience & Tech$23kEducation$21kYouth Development$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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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.

area typical 11%WINDMARK SAILING FOUNDATION: $250 → 6%OUT SIDE IN: $1k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 8%GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 8%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$482k · 37 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
12

Total granted

$482k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
+147%

Still filing today

68%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • JB
    JOHN BALL ZOO
    5× · 2017–2022 · $53k · revenue +252%
  • HC
    History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff
    4× · 2017–2020 · $31k · revenue +16%
  • BI
    BEAVER ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • NS
    NORTHWOOD SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -20%
  • OR
    OPEN ROADS ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +72%
  • BI
    BEAVER ISLAND COMMUNITY HOUSE
    one 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.

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
The Little Forks Conservancy Inc

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.

Environment
2
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment
3
Legacy Land Conservancy

Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever

Environment
4
Leelanau Conservancy

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.

Environment
5
Islesboro Islands Trust

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…

Philanthropy
6
Alaska Whale Foundation

Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.

Environment
7
Lake Superior Center

To engage and inspire, encouraging stewardship of wildlife and water.

Environment
8
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
9
Third Coast International Audio Festival

To cultivate a growing international culture of listening.

Arts & Culture
10
Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal
11
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
12
Glacial Lakes Conservancy Inc

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Forest Open Lands Association; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
29/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOST TREE CHAPEL INC: $46,000 · OtherLOST TREE CHAPEL INCST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $41,000 · OtherST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCHHistory Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff: $30,500 · OtherHistory Center of Lake Forest-Lake BluffTHE LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FND: $25,000 · OtherTHE LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FNDLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $20,000 · OtherLost Tree Village Charitable FoundationIndividual grant recipient: $15,500 · OtherST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH - EPISCOPAL VICARAGE: $14,000 · OtherBEAVER ISLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL: $11,700 · OtherBEAVER ISLAND CULTURAL ARTS: $12,000 · Other+26 more: $92,870 · Other+26 moreBEAVER ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $25,000 · EnvironmentBEAVER ISLAND…Little Traverse Conservancy Inc: $21,000 · EnvironmentLittle Traver…LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $19,040 · EnvironmentLAKE FOREST O…JOHN BALL ZOO: $52,500 · AnimalsJOHN BALL ZO…ORPHANS OF THE STORM: $4,000 · AnimalsORPHANS OF T…+2 more: $3,000 · AnimalsGRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 · PhilanthropyBISSELL Pet Foundation: $4,450 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyBEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLORADO STATE FAIR FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureRagdale Foundation: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $22,500 · Science & TechYOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION OF THE PAL: $18,800 · Youth Development+1 more: $300 · Youth Development
Other$308,570Environment$65,040Animals$59,500Philanthropy$32,950Arts & Culture$29,000Science & Tech$22,500Youth Development$19,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHN BALL ZOO: $52,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHistory Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff: $30,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetGRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBEAVER ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $25,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetBEAVER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN: $25,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $21,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $19,040 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION OF THE PAL: $18,800 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetBEAVER ISLAND CULTURAL ARTS: $12,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetNORTHWOOD SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeaver Island Rural Health Center: $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGorton Community Center: $6,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJustWorld International Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINDEPENDENCE PASS FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOPEN ROADS ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBISSELL Pet Foundation: $4,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetORPHANS OF THE STORM: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetA Way Out Inc: $3,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE FOREST FOUNDATION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $3,250 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetLake Forest Police Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLake Forest College: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO STATE FAIR FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHOOVED ANIMAL RESCUE & PROTECTION SOCIETY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRagdale Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUT SIDE IN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAspen Indigenous Foundation: $750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Chicago Community Partners: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING POWER INC: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELAWA FARM FOUNDATION: $250 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 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.

Anne Hunting FoundationMI20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hunting Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hunting Foundation 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 53 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-PF 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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