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Julius and Cynthia Huebner Foundation at a glance

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Julius and Cynthia Huebner 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$217k
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.

Arts & Culture$886kReligion$837kEducation$546kHuman Services$431kYouth Development$420kHealth$324kEnvironment$50kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC$216,650
YESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH$150,000
THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL$100,000
DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN$100,000
SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE$100,000
CHILDREN'S CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC$100,000
BRILLIANT DETROIT$100,000
START EARLY$100,000
DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY$75,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN BOSTON INC$75,000
CHABAD OF SMA INC$70,000
TZOHAR SEMINARY$60,000
ROXBURY STONE HOUSE$50,000
LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY$50,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $750k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $100k → 22%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN BOSTON INC: $75k → 16%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $50k → 22%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE INC: $50k → 16%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $25k → 22%ROXBURY STONE HOUSE: $50k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN BOSTON INC: $50k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN BOSTON: $25k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $15k → 16%CHILDERNS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $100k → 21%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $100k → 21%THE CHILDERNS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY: $25k → 21%THE CHILDERNS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY: $18k → 21%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $1k → 21%SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS: $31k → 21%THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $10k → 21%SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS: $10k → 21%THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $10k → 21%THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $5k → 21%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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 21 repeat orgs$269k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
13

Total granted

$3.3M
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+21%

Still filing today

81%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth 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

  • YA
    YESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH
    3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +1%
  • DI
    DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN
    5× · 2021–2025 · $288k · revenue +10%
  • BRILLIANT DETROIT
    4× · 2022–2025 · $270k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • NP
    NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -29%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGANgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +126%
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
Detroit Parent Network

To be a champion for parents of children in the community.

Human Services
2
Community Education Commission

CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.

Education
3
Detroit Public Schools Foundation

DPSFs mission is to create and enhance educational opportunities for over 50,000 Detroit Public Schools Community Districts students, families and educators. DPS Foundation was organized to ensure DPS, now DPSCD student and families to…

Education
4
Everyday Blooms Montessori Inc

We believe that the first six years of a childs life are the most critical. We offer a high quality learning environment to a diverse community of children and families.

Education
5
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
6
Children's Museum of Oak Park

To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.

Arts & Culture
7
Detroit Children's Fund

The mission of the detroit children's fund is to make high-potential investments to expand successful schools, greatly improve lower performing schools, and discover and develop talented educators so that every child in detroit has the…

Philanthropy
8
Diploma Equity Project

The organization works with k-12, higher education and other community partners to design and implement programs to improve rates of college persistence and completion.

Education
9
Detroit 90 90

The organization provides educational management services to public school academies in the State of Michigan

Education
10
The Detroit Creativity Project

The detroit creativity project ("dcp") seeks to empower and inspire detroit's young people through improvisation, an art form that helps people build confidence and develop a creative and collaborative approach to their lives.

Unclassified
11
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
12
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Epiphany School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sigma Gamma 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

29 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. 29 of the 37 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHABAD OF SMA INC: $430,000 · OtherCHABAD OF SMA INCYESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH: $300,000 · OtherYESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBUR…START EARLY: $250,000 · OtherSTART EARLYCHRIST CHURCH GROSSE POINTE: $42,000 · Other+12 more: $64,000 · Other+12 moreMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $550,000 · Arts & CultureMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSICDetroit Historical Society: $238,000 · Arts & CultureDetroit Historical SocietyTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $48,340 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART…+2 more: $35,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $243,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYN…SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $175,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIV…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN …ROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC: $115,000 · Human ServicesROXBURY STONE HOUSE INCSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $66,000 · Human ServicesSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZ…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesDETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN: $288,000 · HealthDETROIT IN…NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $25,000 · HealthNURSE-FAMI…+1 more: $5,000 · HealthBRILLIANT DETROIT: $270,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $100,000 · EducationTzohar Arts: $60,000 · EducationGROSSE POINTE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION: $16,300 · Education+2 more: $650 · EducationLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $50,000 · Environment
Other$1,086,000Arts & Culture$871,340Human Services$750,000Health$318,000Youth Development$270,000Education$176,950Environment$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 budgetMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $550,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetYESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH: $300,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetDETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN: $288,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT: $270,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSTART EARLY: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $243,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDetroit Historical Society: $238,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $175,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $150,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC: $115,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $66,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTzohar Arts: $60,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $48,340 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROSSE POINTE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION: $16,300 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetARTS & SCRAPS: $14,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLiving Arts: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIGMA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetREADING WORKS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTAU BETA ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCity of Grosse Pointe Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHospice of Michigan Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIGMA GAMMA ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWellesley College: $150 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.

Community Foundation …Lynn & Paul Alandt Fo…William & Martha Ford…Patrick and Christie …Young Woman's Home As…Detroit Industrial Sc…DTE Energy FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationAlice Kales Hartwick …Ethel and James Flinn…Children's Hospital o…The Skillman Foundati…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Lynn & Paul Alandt Foundation · William & Martha Ford Fund · Patrick and Christie Scoggin Family Foundation · Young Woman's Home Association of Detroit Michigan · Detroit Industrial School · DTE Energy Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Alice Kales Hartwick Foundation · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · The Skillman 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 Julius and Cynthia Huebner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Julius and Cynthia Huebner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Roxbury Stone House Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children - Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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Find your warmest path to Julius and Cynthia Huebner 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 37 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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