· Private foundation
Phil & Karen Hunke Fam Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEST NATURE SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,000 |
| GLADYS PORTER ZOO | $12,500 |
| UT HEALTH SAN ANTONIO | $10,000 |
| SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIV | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BERGHEIM VOL FIRE DEPT | $3,000 |
| DRISCOLL CHILD HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| LAST CHANCE FOREVER | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SISTER PROJECT | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CNCIBOLO NATURE CENTER3× · 2017–2019 · $110k
- NNNEST NATURE SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $100k
- VZVALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY6× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $62k
- DGDAS GREENHAUS INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -87%
- TATX A and M KINGSVILLEone grant, 2019 · $32k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization thatadvances Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs,partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our…
To support texas land trusts and promote land conservation efforts in texas. host texas land conservation conference to educate conservation related professionals and volunteers from across the state.
Support nonprofit organizations by managing & distributing charitable gifts
Kelsey Research Foundation (KRF) was founded in 1956 for the purpose of encouraging and assisting research and education programs in the field of medicine.
To fund neurofibromatosis research and education and to provide for support groups for those facing the illness.
Texas oncology foundation is organized exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, and educational purposes, including, for the purpose of making distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under…
Texans for vaccine choice exists to directly influence vaccine choice public policy and legislation
The Coastal Prairie Conservancy (CPC) works to sustain a resilient Texas by preserving coastal prairies, wetlands, farms, and ranches to benefit people and wildlife forever. Continued on Schedule OCPC conserves land, restores and enhances…
We acquire properties to be donated to the National Park Service and state entities and advocate for protection of Big Thicket natural resources.
Texas Food & Wine Alliance is dedicated to fostering awareness and innovation in the Texas culinary community through grants, educational programing, and events.
Alaska Whale Foundation is dedicated to marine mammal conservation through research monitoring and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baylor Oral Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rebecca's Wish. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DAS GREENHAUS INC ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M University - Kingsville Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAST CHANCE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Taking Care of Texas ↗
- Who funds VANNIE E COOK JR CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds REBECCA'S WISH ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP 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.
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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 Phil & Karen Hunke Fam 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.
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.