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Hunzeker Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$80k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Food & Nutrition$128kAnimals$104kHousing & Shelter$53kHuman Services$45kYouth Development$15kReligion$9kHealth$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIDWEST FOOD BANK$11,500
PEORIA FOOD BANK$11,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$8,500
PETS FOR SENIORS$7,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$7,000
FRIENDS OF STRAYS$7,000
HOMETOWN RESCUE$4,000
FOSTER PET OUTREACH$4,000
WOUNDED WARRIORS$3,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$3,000
MISSION K9 RESCUE$2,500
K9S FOR WARRIORS$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
ST JUDE$2,000
KEMMERER VILLAGE$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KEMMERER VILLAGE: $4k → 16%KEMMERER VILLAGE: $3k → 16%KEMMERER VILLAGE: $2k → 16%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $14k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $12k → 14%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $9k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$343k · 15 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against -44% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
2

Total granted

$343k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
-44%

Still filing today

73%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +12%
  • MF
    MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP
    3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +14%
  • PF
    Pets for Seniors
    6× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • TS
    TESSA SUTTON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -44%
  • OA
    OPEN ARMS FOOD PANTRY
    one grant, 2024 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Furever Friends Rescue

Adoption services for orphaned pets

2
Pets for Vets Inc

Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…

Public Benefit
3
K911

To rescue abandoned and displaced cats and dogs, bring them back to health, provide all medical and prepare them for their new home

Animals
4
Their Lives Matter

Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home

Animals
5
Paws Need People

Paws need people strive to rescue pets from shelters and provide a place they can stay until they are adopted. they provide pets to veterans through its therapy pet program.

6
K9s On the Front Line

Supplying service dogs to verterans with post traumatic stress disorder.

Health
7
Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation

Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…

Animals
8
Leave No Paws Behind Inc

Conduct animal rescues, rehabilitation and rehome senior animals abandoned to the shelter's system.

Animals
9
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
10
Wise Tails - a Senior Dog Sanctuary
11
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
12
Fuzzy Pawz Rescue Llc

Fuzzy Pawz is a small group of dedicated volunteers who open their homes and their hearts to unwanted dogs and cats. Our non-profit rescue does not have a facility but rather places each animal into a private home. We supply all vet care,…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is K9S for Warriors Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tessa Sutton 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PEORIA FOOD BANK — $80,500 · OtherPEORIA FOOD BANKHOMETOWN RESCUE CO — $17,000 · OtherHOMETOWN RESCUE COMETAMORA FOOD BANK — $9,500 · OtherMETAMORA FOOD BANKST JUDE — $9,000 · OtherST JUDE+5 more — $12,500 · Other+5 moreMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP — $34,500 · Human ServicesMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFPPets for Seniors — $31,500 · Human ServicesPets for SeniorsWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $13,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCKEMMERER VILLAGE INC — $9,000 · Human ServicesKEMMERER VILLAGE INCFRIENDS OF STRAYS INC — $31,500 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF STRAYS INCFOSTER PET OUTREACH — $19,000 · AnimalsFOSTER PET OUTREACHMission K9 Rescue Inc — $11,000 · AnimalsMission K9 Rescue IncK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $11,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INCNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $35,500 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOO…GARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $19,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER PEORIA INC — $11,500 · Youth DevelopmentTESSA SUTTON FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthNIEKRO ANEURYSM AND AVM FOUNDATION — $1,500 · Health
Other$128,500Human Services$88,500Animals$72,500Community Improvement$35,500Philanthropy$19,000Youth Development$11,500Health$6,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $35,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP — $34,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF STRAYS INC — $31,500 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetPets for Seniors — $31,500 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetFOSTER PET OUTREACH — $19,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER PEORIA INC — $11,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMission K9 Rescue Inc — $11,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKEMMERER VILLAGE INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTESSA SUTTON FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budget
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 NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF STRAYS INC
  • Who funds Pets for Seniors
  • Who funds FOSTER PET OUTREACH
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER PEORIA INC
  • Who funds Mission K9 Rescue Inc
  • Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC
  • Who funds KEMMERER VILLAGE INC
  • Who funds TESSA SUTTON FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NIEKRO ANEURYSM AND AVM FOUNDATION

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Hunzeker Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Hunzeker Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hunzeker Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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