· Private foundation
Phil & Karen Hunke Fam Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SISTER PROJECT | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against -8% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 44 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DAS GREENHAUS INC ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M University - Kingsville Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds VANNIE E COOK JR CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAST CHANCE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Taking Care of Texas ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds REBECCA'S WISH ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Phil & Karen Hunke Fam Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Phil & Karen Hunke Fam Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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