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John and Cheryl Hunt Charitable Foundation at a glance

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John and Cheryl Hunt Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$45kHealth$26kEducation$22kInternational$4kPhilanthropy$3kArts & Culture$2kHuman Services$1kYouth Development$850Other$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$600
Median grant
3
States reached
$862k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RYE PRESBYTARIAN CHURCH - WOMENS$10,100
MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE$5,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$850
THE RYE ARTS CENTER$600
RYE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$600
THE NED FUND$500
ADELPHI UNIVERSITY$250
THE APAWAMIS FOUNDATION$250
HARRISON PUBLIC LIBRARY$200
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $850) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $850 → 14%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

IL
NY
PA
CT
VA
AL
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$53k · 6 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
17

Total granted

$53k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+52%

Still filing today

83%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TR
    THE RYE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1k · revenue +3%
  • TA
    THE APAWAMIS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $750 · revenue +34%
  • RG
    RYE GARDEN CLUB INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $700 · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • BG
    BEAR GIVERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +112%
  • PC
    PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE TOWN OF RYE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • RP
    RYE PRESBYTARIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Rye Youth Soccer Club Inc

The program was formed to foster, promote, encourage and support the playing of soccer in the city of rye, new york.

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3
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
4
Yale University

To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.

Education
5
Associated Medical Schools of New York

Amsny, the statewide consortium of medical schools in new york, works with its academic, scientific, healthcare, patient advocacy and business partners to advance medical education, biomedical research, and healthcare delivery. this unique…

Education
6
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
7
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Westchester Community College Foundation Inc

See schedule othe purposes of the foundation shall be to aid and advance the mission of westchester community college, a public educational institution. recognizing that public education is a public responsibility, the foundation shall…

Philanthropy
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
Rye Free Reading Room

To serve as a dynamic gathering place and center for lifelong learnings for rye residents of all ages and interests.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Give to the World. 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

15 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. 15 of the 28 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RYE PRESBYTARIAN CHURCH - WOMENS: $26,300 · OtherRYE PRESBYTARIAN CHURCH - WOMENSPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE TOWN OF RYE: $10,000 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE TOWN OF RYERYE PRESBYTARIAN CHURCH: $8,000 · OtherRYE PRESBYTARIAN CHURCH+16 more: $6,820 · Other+16 moreBEAR GIVERS INC: $25,000 · HealthBEAR GIVERS INCCHAI LIFELINE INC: $1,000 · HealthMARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationMARYMOUNT MANHATTAN CO…THE APAWAMIS FOUNDATION: $750 · Education+1 more: $250 · EducationGive to the World: $4,000 · InternationalSEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $850 · Human ServicesGREENWICH COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INCORPORATED: $850 · Youth Development
Other$51,120Health$26,000Education$21,000International$4,000Philanthropy$1,000Human Services$850Youth Development$850

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 budgetBEAR GIVERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGive to the World: $4,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE RYE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,220 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INCORPORATED: $850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE APAWAMIS FOUNDATION: $750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRYE GARDEN CLUB INC: $700 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE RYE ARTS CENTER INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RYE TOWN PARK INC: $500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPART OF THE SOLUTION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHARING SHELF INC: $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.

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.

The Dunn Family Found…The Glickenhaus Found…The Joe & Sandy Sambe…Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Dunn Family FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dunn Family Foundation · The Glickenhaus Foundation · The Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 John and Cheryl Hunt Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Cheryl Hunt Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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, 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 John and Cheryl Hunt Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to John and Cheryl Hunt Charitable 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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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