· Private foundation
Hunzeker Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDWEST FOOD BANK | $11,500 |
| PEORIA FOOD BANK | $11,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $8,500 |
| FRIENDS OF STRAYS | $7,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| PETS FOR SENIORS | $7,000 |
| FOSTER PET OUTREACH | $4,000 |
| HOMETOWN RESCUE | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against -44% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +12%
- MFMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +14%
- PFPets for Seniors6× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- TSTESSA SUTTON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -44%
- OAOPEN ARMS FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2024 · $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.
Adoption services for orphaned pets
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…
To rescue abandoned and displaced cats and dogs, bring them back to health, provide all medical and prepare them for their new home
Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home
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.
Supplying service dogs to verterans with post traumatic stress disorder.
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…
Conduct animal rescues, rehabilitation and rehome senior animals abandoned to the shelter's system.
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.
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,…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, 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.
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 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 ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hunzeker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hunzeker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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