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James E and Betty J Huffer Foundation at a glance

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James E and Betty J Huffer 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.

$235k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$541kArts & Culture$533kHousing & Shelter$245kEnvironment$159kReligion$114kPublic Safety & Disaster$97kHuman Services$88kPhilanthropy$79kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYO CLINIC$50,000
NEIGHBORHOOD CREATIVE ARTS CENTER$30,000
PROJECT HEAL HELP TO EAT ACCEPT & LIVE$25,000
IMMOKALEE FAIR HOUSING ALLIANCE$20,000
DEEPLY INGRAINED INC$10,000
HOPE INC$10,000
BRADLEY CLEVELAND PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS$10,000
OKEFENOKEE SWAMP PARK INC$10,000
THE CANCER FOUNDATION INC$10,000
PROJECT LIFT$5,000
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF ATHENS$5,000
CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER$5,000
ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART$5,000
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REPERTORY THEATRE$5,000
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 (FY17–22, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RYANS CASE FOR SMILES: $5k → 6%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $5k → 10%RYANS CASE FOR SMILES: $5k → 6%CHILD CARE OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $33k → 11%CHILD CARE OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $25k → 11%VALERIES HOUSE INC: $20k → 11%ATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING: $1k → 27%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
NY
NV
IN
PA
CA
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 27 repeat orgs$308k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
24

Total granted

$1.7M
$166k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+30%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k 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
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TN
    THE NUCI PHILLIPS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $145k · revenue +19%
  • CC
    CHILD CARE OF SW FLORIDA INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $58k · revenue +48%
  • PH
    PROJECT HEAL HELP TO EAT ACCEPT & LIVE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $54k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • GG
    GLOBAL GIFT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • VH
    VALERIE'S HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -24%
  • A
    ATHICA
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
3
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…

Community Improvement
4
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
5
Atlanta Celebrates Photography Inc

Atlanta celebrates photography (dba atlanta center for photography) (acp) advances new perspectives in lens-based media from the american south. through artwork commissions, community collaborations, and dynamic programs, acp supports…

Arts & Culture
6
People Inc

People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…

Human Services
7
Oncology and Kids Inc

To help kids and families heal the emotional scars of childhood cancer and learn to thrive.

Human Services
8
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
9
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
10
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
11
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
12
Naples Zoo Inc

Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Athens Area Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is North Naples Education Center Inc. 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

52 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. 52 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
34/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC: $270,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICATHENS HOMELESS SHELTER: $215,000 · OtherATHENS HOMELESS SHELTERATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $150,985 · OtherATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTLEE COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR THE ARTS INC: $110,000 · OtherLEE COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR THE ARTS INCIndividual grant recipient: $87,940 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPROJECT SAFE ATHENS: $82,000 · OtherPROJECT SAFE ATHENSBEACON OF HOPE: $60,300 · OtherART WITH A HEART INC: $55,000 · Other+32 more: $363,000 · Other+32 moreTHE NUCI PHILLIPS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $145,000 · HealthTHE NUCI PH…PROJECT HEAL HELP TO EAT ACCEPT & LIVE: $53,500 · HealthPROJECT HEA…THE CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Health+2 more: $2,000 · HealthAthens Film Arts Institute Inc DBA Cine: $44,300 · Arts & CultureKIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureWild Rumpus Events Inc: $29,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REPERTORY THEATRE: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $3,647 · Arts & CultureCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $55,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $30,000 · EnvironmentATHENS LAND TRUST INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentGEORGIA FORESTWATCH INC: $15,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,500 · EnvironmentCHILD CARE OF SW FLORIDA INC: $58,000 · Human ServicesVALERIE'S HOUSE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesRYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $10,000 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,040 · Human ServicesAthens Area Community Foundation Inc: $60,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCANDID: $8,530 · Philanthropy+2 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyPARTNERSHIPS FOR LAWRENCE INC: $50,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,394,225Health$210,500Arts & Culture$132,447Environment$131,500Human Services$94,040Philanthropy$80,530Community Improvement$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NUCI PHILLIPS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $145,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetLEE COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR THE ARTS INC: $110,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetAthens Area Community Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCHILD CARE OF SW FLORIDA INC: $58,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $55,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetART WITH A HEART INC: $55,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetPROJECT HEAL HELP TO EAT ACCEPT & LIVE: $53,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetPARTNERSHIPS FOR LAWRENCE INC: $50,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetAthens Film Arts Institute Inc DBA Cine: $44,300 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetKIDS DANCE OUTREACH INC: $30,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATHENS LAND TRUST INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWild Rumpus Events Inc: $29,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA: $20,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetVALERIE'S HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $19,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREEF BALL FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetGEORGIA FORESTWATCH INC: $15,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEEPLY INGRAINED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetRYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetExtra Special People Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BIGGER VISION OF ATHENS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHOPE Inc Helping Other People be Empowered: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCANDID: $8,530 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH NAPLES EDUCATION CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMOUNTAIN CIRCUIT CASA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REPERTORY THEATRE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPROJECT LIFT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARTS IN HEALTH OCALA METRO INC: $3,647 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHESS & COMMUNITY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGEORGIA RIVER NETWORK INC dba GEORGIA RIVERS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATHENS COMMUNITY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $1,040 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHARACTER LAB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSend Me on Vacation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPARK MICROGRANTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Future Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,000 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.

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.

Athens Area Community…The Richard M Schulze…The Community Foundat…Jackson Emc Foundatio…The Winthrop Foundati…The Newland Family Fo…Glickman Family Found…The League Club IncThe Thomas M and Iren…Christel DeHaan Famil…Allen Whitehill Clowe…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…
Athens Area Community Foundation IncGA19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Athens Area Community Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Jackson Emc Foundation Inc Attn Amy Rouse · The Winthrop Foundation of Athens G · The Newland Family Foundation Inc · Glickman Family Foundation · The League Club Inc · The Thomas M and Irene Kirbo Charitable Foundation · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial 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 James E and Betty J Huffer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James E and Betty J Huffer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Lee County Alliance for the Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Arts in Health Ocala Metro Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
  • North Naples Education Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Valerie's House Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to James E and Betty J Huffer Foundation?

Find your warmest path to James E and Betty J Huffer 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 68 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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