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Phil & Karen Hunke Fam Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$115k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Phil & Karen Hunke Fam Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthCommunity ImprovementEducationAnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$115k36%
FY202310$118k60%
FY202210$109k70%
FY202110$82k80%
FY20206$93k67%
FY201910$90k90%
FY20185$99k80%
FY20172$70kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$317kEnvironment$163kHealth$101kAnimals$90kCommunity Improvement$50kHuman Services$28kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kReligion$12kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Valley Zoological Society$90,00060%
Das Greenhaus Inc$50,00016%
The Univ of Tx Health Science Ctr of Sa$30,0002n/a
Sam Houston State University$20,0004n/a
Texas A&M University - Kingsville Foundation Inc$11,00010%
Vannie E Cook Jr Cancer Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Last Chance Forever$10,00031%
American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Foundation$10,0001n/a
Taking Care of Texas$10,00010%
Baylor Oral Health Foundation$10,00010%
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All grantees of Phil & Karen Hunke Fam Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Valley Zoological Society$90,00060%
Das Greenhaus Inc$50,00016%
The Univ of Tx Health Science Ctr of Sa$30,0002n/a
Sam Houston State University$20,0004n/a
Texas A&M University - Kingsville Foundation Inc$11,00010%
Vannie E Cook Jr Cancer Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Last Chance Forever$10,00031%
American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Foundation$10,0001n/a
Taking Care of Texas$10,00010%
Baylor Oral Health Foundation$10,00010%
Women's Shelter of South Texas$5,50020%
Rebecca's Wish$5,00011%
Childhelp Inc$1,00010%
Kendall County Junior Livestock Associat$50010%

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($512k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Phil & Karen Hunke Fam Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetValley Zoological Society: $90,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDas Greenhaus Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTexas A&M University - Kingsville Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVannie E Cook Jr Cancer Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLast Chance Forever: $10,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTaking Care of Texas: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBaylor Oral Health Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWomen's Shelter of South Texas: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRebecca's Wish: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetChildhelp Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKendall County Junior Livestock Associat: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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 Blackbaud Giving FundSC9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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.

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About Phil & Karen Hunke Fam Foundation

How much does Phil & Karen Hunke Fam Foundation give?
Phil & Karen Hunke Fam Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $114,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Phil & Karen Hunke Fam Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (41%), Environment (21%), Health (13%).
Who are Phil & Karen Hunke Fam Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Valley Zoological Society ($90k), Das Greenhaus Inc ($50k), The Univ of Tx Health Science Ctr of Sa ($30k).
Does Phil & Karen Hunke Fam Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Phil & Karen Hunke Fam Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Phil & Karen Hunke Fam Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Phil & Karen Hunke Fam Foundation based?
Phil & Karen Hunke Fam Foundation is based in TX.

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 44 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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