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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 it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$388k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONTEREY RAPE CRISIS CENTER$3,000
CARMEL FOUNDATION$3,000
COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES$2,000
MONTAGE HEALTH FDN$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
Individual grant recipient$2,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OUTREACH$2,000
ROTARY FOUNDATION OF MONTEREY$1,000
GATEWAY CENTER$1,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$1,000
MONTEREY ACADEMY OF OCEANOGRAPHIC$1,000
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 (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 its 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
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
3

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
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

  • MP
    Monterey Peninsula College Foundation
    5× · 2017–2021 · $19k · revenue +15%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +214%
  • FO
    Friends of Monterey Academy of Oceanographic Science
    5× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +20%

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
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
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
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2
Monterey County Interfaith Alliance
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monterey Peninsula College Foundation; 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 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. 11 of the 32 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

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

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 Mildred Hitchcock Huff Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mildred Hitchcock Huff Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 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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