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Mildred Hitchcock Huff Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$53kCrime & Legal$29kHealth$26kRecreation & Sports$25kPhilanthropy$23kFood & Nutrition$13kHuman Services$8kHousing & Shelter$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$388k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARMEL FOUNDATION$3,000
MONTEREY RAPE CRISIS CENTER$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES$2,000
MONTAGE HEALTH FDN$2,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OUTREACH$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,000
JOSEPHINE KERNS MEMORIAL POOL$2,000
MONTEREY PENINSULA COLLEGE$2,000
MONTEREY PUBLIC LIBRARY$2,000
ROTARY FOUNDATION OF MONTEREY$1,000
LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS$1,000
MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW$1,000
GATEWAY CENTER$1,000
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 (FY22–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CARMEL FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%CARMEL FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%PASS THE WORD MINISTRY: $1k → 12%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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$208k · 28 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
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Total granted

$208k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+100%

Still filing today

32%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther

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

  • CH
    COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +214%
  • FO
    Friends of Monterey Academy of Oceanographic Science
    5× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +20%
  • LS
    LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • MH
    MONTEREY HIGH SOBER GRADUATION NIGH
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • PT
    PASS THE WORD MINISTRY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +100%
  • VN
    VISITING NURSES ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $500

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
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
2
Monterey County Interfaith Alliance
3
Monterey Bay United
Recreation & Sports
4
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
5
Montage Health

To provide support services to the community hospital of the monterey peninsula and its affiliates.

Health
6
Community Foundation for Monterey County

To inspire philanthropy and be a catalyst for strengthening communities throughout monterey county.

Philanthropy
7
Health Projects Center

Health Projects Center supports people as they age to live safely at home by delivering high quality services and programs in the Monterey Bay Region.

Crime & Legal
8
Marin General Hospital

To be the destination for health and healing in the north bay.

Health
9
Monterey Bay Economic Partnership Inc

To improve the economic health and quality of life in the monterey bay region.

Community Improvement
10
Transportation Alternatives for Marin
Public Benefit
11
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula

Community hospital of the monterey peninsula is dedicated to identifying and meeting the changing healthcare needs of the people of the monterey peninsula and surrounding communities.we are committed to providing high-quality services at a…

Health
12
Vivalon

Vivalon advances independence, health and quality of life for older adults and people with disabilities. Through a comprehensive, integrated program of active aging services, we provide specialized transportation, nutrition programs,…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monterey Peninsula College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pass the Word Ministry 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MONTEREY RAPE CRISIS CENTER — $17,000 · OtherMONTEREY RAPE CRISIS CENTERMonterey Peninsula College — $10,000 · OtherMonterey Peninsula CollegeCITY OF MONTEREY RECREATION DIVISIO — $9,000 · OtherCITY OF MONTEREY RECREATION DIVISIOCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OUTREACH — $8,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OUTREACHIndividual grant recipient — $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJOSEPHINE KERNES MEMORIAL POOL — $8,000 · OtherJOSEPHINE KERNES MEMORIAL POOLMONTEREY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $8,000 · OtherMONTEREY PUBLIC LIBRARYGATEWAY CENTER — $7,500 · OtherGATEWAY CENTERMPC WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PROGRAM — $7,000 · OtherOUTREACH FUND — $7,000 · OtherJOSEPHINE KERNES MEMORIAL FOR EDUCA — $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $6,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE MONTEREY PUBLIC LIBR — $5,000 · OtherPASS THE WORD MINISTRY - ONE STARFI — $5,000 · OtherMONTEREY ACADEMY OF OCEANOGRAPHIC — $5,000 · Other+7 more — $20,000 · Other+7 moreMonterey Peninsula College Foundation — $19,000 · EducationMonterey Peninsu…Friends of Monterey Academy of Oceanographic Science — $10,000 · EducationFriends of Monte…MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW — $3,000 · EducationMONTEREY COLLEGE…COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES — $18,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY H…MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $4,000 · HealthMONTAGE HEA…LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS — $9,000 · Crime & LegalInland Empire Community Foundation — $7,000 · PhilanthropyMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionThe Carmel Foundation — $4,000 · Human ServicesPASS THE WORD MINISTRY INC — $1,000 · Human Services
Other$137,500Education$32,000Health$22,000Crime & Legal$9,000Philanthropy$7,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Human Services$5,000

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 budgetMonterey Peninsula College Foundation — $19,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES — $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Monterey Academy of Oceanographic Science — $10,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS — $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJOSEPHINE KERNES MEMORIAL POOL — $8,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetInland Empire Community Foundation — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Carmel Foundation — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPASS THE WORD MINISTRY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

  • Who funds Monterey Peninsula College Foundation
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES
  • Who funds Friends of Monterey Academy of Oceanographic Science
  • Who funds LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS
  • Who funds JOSEPHINE KERNES MEMORIAL POOL
  • Who funds Inland Empire Community Foundation
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA INC
  • Who funds The Carmel Foundation
  • Who funds MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MONTEREY COLLEGE OF LAW
  • Who funds PASS THE WORD MINISTRY INC

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.

Alexander F Victor FoundationCA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alexander F Victor Foundation · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Barnet Segal Charitable Trust · Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Mildred Hitchcock Huff Charitable Trust 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Mildred Hitchcock Huff Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Mildred Hitchcock Huff Charitable Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 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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