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Jim and Diana Huckle Family 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.

$960k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$333k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$1.7MYouth Development$1.3MPhilanthropy$803kRecreation & Sports$750kEmployment$462kArts & Culture$240kEducation$200kCommunity Improvement$192kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $550k
  • $250k+1 grant · $333k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GRAND TRAVERSE BAY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCI$333,334
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC$200,000
INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS$125,000
FRIENDS OF THE GRAND TRAVERSE CONSERVATION DISTRIC$100,000
PADDLE ANTRIM$75,000
WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN$50,000
GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
GENERATIONS AHEAD$15,000
WARM HEARTS FOUNDATION$10,000
GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,100
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 (FY17–25, $270k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SOARING UNLIMITED: $36k → 16%WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $50k → 9%SOARING UNLIMITED: $20k → 16%SOARING UNLIMITED: $20k → 16%SOARING UNLIMITED: $10k → 16%SOARING UNLIMITED: $10k → 16%SOARING UNLIMITED: $10k → 16%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%SOARING UNLIMITED: $10k → 16%SOARING UNLIMITED: $8k → 16%SOARING UNLIMITED: $5k → 16%SOARING UNLIMITED: $5k → 16%SOARING UNLIMITED: $5k → 16%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $15k → 10%SOARING UNLIMITED: $4k → 16%SOARING UNLIMITED: $4k → 16%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $10k → 10%SOARING UNLIMITED: $3k → 16%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $10k → 10%SOARING UNLIMITED: $3k → 16%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $10k → 10%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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.8M · 21 repeat orgs$556k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
21

Total granted

$4.8M
$506k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+9%

Still filing today

86%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
EnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureEmploymentInternationalYouth 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

  • GT
    GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $999k · revenue +321%
  • TA
    TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $585k · revenue +219%
  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $457k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • SH
    SAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +60%
  • CO
    CITY OPERA HOUSE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -11%
  • BO
    Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State
    one grant, 2024 · $50k

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
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
2
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
3
Little Traverse Conservancy Conservation Trust

To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.

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4
Lake Superior Community Partnership Inc

To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.

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5
Top of Michigan Trails Council

We advocate and facilitate the development of a network of multipurpose recreational trails in Northern Lower Michigan.

Recreation & Sports
6
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
7
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
8
Fund for Lake Michigan Inc

Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…

Environment
9
Six Rivers Land Conservancy Fka Six Rivers Regional Land Conservancy

To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special

Environment
10
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
11
Land Information Access Association

Liaa is a community service organization working to increase the sustainability of communities and expand civic engagement. our mission statement is: helping people to shape better communities through: participation, education, information…

Environment
12
Michigan Trails & Greenways Alliance

Michigan trails & greenways alliance is the statewide voice for nonmotorized trail users, helping people build, connect and promote trails for a healthier and more prosperous michigan.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%14%5–10yr24%23%10–20yr18%17%20–35yr16%34%35–55yr12%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%4%<5yr13%6%5–10yr24%12%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr16%42%35–55yr12%6%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
7%
89/1,243

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

35 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
23/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE GRAND TRAVERSE BAY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCI — $1,000,002 · OtherTHE GRAND TRAVERSE BAY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSO…TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC — $585,000 · OtherTRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS…NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE — $200,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGEBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWE — $154,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEGROUNDWORK CENTER FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES INC — $150,000 · OtherGROUNDWORK CENTER FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES INCTRAVERSE CITY CENTER OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $124,500 · Other+17 more — $403,000 · Other+17 moreGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY — $998,833 · EnvironmentGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND …FRIENDS OF THE GRAND TRAVERSE CONSERVATION DISTRICT — $200,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE GRAND TRAVERSE…FOR LOVE OF WATER — $182,500 · EnvironmentFOR LOVE OF WATERPADDLE ANTRIM — $105,000 · EnvironmentPADDLE ANTRIM+3 more — $120,000 · Environment+3 moreGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $780,600 · PhilanthropyGRAND TRAVERSE…+1 more — $22,500 · PhilanthropyGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC — $457,000 · Employment+1 more — $5,000 · EmploymentSOARING UNLIMITED DBA CENTRE DE SANTE SOARING PISTER — $150,000 · Human ServicesWomens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesGENERATIONS AHEAD — $45,000 · Human ServicesFATHER FRED FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $130,000 · Arts & CultureCITY OPERA HOUSE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKES — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureNORTE YOUTH CYCLING — $111,000 · Youth DevelopmentBurr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State — $50,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,617,002Environment$1,606,333Philanthropy$803,100Employment$462,000Human Services$270,000Arts & Culture$235,000Youth Development$161,000

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 budgetGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY — $998,833 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $780,600 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetTRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC — $585,000 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC — $457,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GRAND TRAVERSE CONSERVATION DISTRICT — $200,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetFOR LOVE OF WATER — $182,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWE — $154,500 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetGROUNDWORK CENTER FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES INC — $150,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetSOARING UNLIMITED DBA CENTRE DE SANTE SOARING PISTER — $150,000 over 8y, 9.2% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $130,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTRAVERSE CITY CENTER OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $124,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetNORTE YOUTH CYCLING — $111,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetPADDLE ANTRIM — $105,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetIMMIGRATION LAW & JUSTICE MICHIGAN — $85,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetMT HOLIDAY INC — $60,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCITY OPERA HOUSE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKES — $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGENERATIONS AHEAD — $45,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetGRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA INC — $40,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetFATHER FRED FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN — $22,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWARM HEARTS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE BAY WATERSHED INITIATIVE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUTOPIA FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST MICHIGAN WORKS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFISHTOWN PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Grand Traverse Region…Rotary Charities of T…Oleson FoundationThe Art and Mary Schm…Consumers Energy Foun…Les & Ann Biederman F…Dte Energy FoundationCharlevoix County Com…Petoskey-Harbor Sprin…Harry a and Margaret …Frey FoundationShell USA Company Fou…
Grand Traverse Regional Community FoundationMI61.5× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Oleson Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc · Dte Energy Foundation · Charlevoix County Community Foundation · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Frey Foundation · Shell USA Company 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 Jim and Diana Huckle 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    13report 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

    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.

    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 44 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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