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T Kendall Hunt Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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T Kendall Hunt Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$796k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.7MHealth$801kRecreation & Sports$700kPhilanthropy$479kEducation$411kHuman Services$405kYouth Development$78kFood & Nutrition$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $83k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO ACADEMY OF ARTS$250,000
CHICAGO ACADEMY OF ARTS$250,000
HEPHZIBAH CHILDRENS ASSOCIATION$75,250
CHICAGO ACADEMY OF ARTS$50,000
FRANK LLYOD WRIGHT TRUST$25,000
OAK PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$12,894
WASATCH PEAKS RANCH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
NCCA- 19TH CENTURY CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION$10,000
COLLABORATION FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD$10,000
MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY$9,542
Individual grant recipient$8,592
MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY$8,441
Individual grant recipient$7,777
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$7,203
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%WASATCH PEAKS RANCH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%SARAHS INN: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
MI
IN
OH
CA
UT
MS
FL
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 18 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
30

Total granted

$3.7M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+30%

Still filing today

56%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $612k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FL
    FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST
    6× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +1%
  • PP
    Planned Parenthood of Illinois
    4× · 2019–2023 · $775k · revenue +74%
  • HC
    HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $370k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • PF
    PARKS FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK
    one grant, 2021 · $350k · revenue -93%
  • PF
    PARKS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $300k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI ADVANCEMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $87k
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
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
2
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
3
Children's Museum of Oak Park

To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.

Arts & Culture
4
Aia Chicago Foundation

Aia chicago foundation invests in chicago's next generation of architectural change-makers by awarding scholarships, grants, and recognition.

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5
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
6
Chicago Parks Foundation

The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.

Recreation & Sports
7
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
8
Oakton Community College Educational Foundation

To enable student success.

Education
9
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
10
The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education
11
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
12
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Parks Foundation. 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

34 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. 34 of the 59 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/34
Grantees still filing
23/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHICAGO ACADEMY FOR ARTS: $742,160 · OtherCHICAGO ACADEMY FOR ARTSCHICAGO ACADEMY OF ARTS: $550,000 · OtherCHICAGO ACADEMY OF ARTSHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $370,250 · OtherHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATIONOPRF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $192,256 · OtherOPRF COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS: $175,000 · OtherTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS+34 more: $627,771 · Other+34 moreFRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST: $1,100,000 · Arts & CultureFRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRU…+3 more: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $775,000 · HealthPlanned Parentho…+1 more: $25,000 · HealthPARKS FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK: $350,000 · PhilanthropyPARKS FOUNDA…OAK PARK-RIVER FOREST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $270,500 · PhilanthropyOAK PARK-RIV…+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPARKS FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Public BenefitCOLLABORATION FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD: $40,000 · EducationPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationPROJECT SYNCERE: $15,000 · EducationONE MILLION DEGREES: $10,000 · EducationA HOUSE IN AUSTIN: $10,000 · EducationMOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $7,206 · EducationKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $5,862 · EducationSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION: $4,840 · EducationILLINOIS COLLEGE: $4,300 · EducationTHE HEPH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Community Improvement
Other$2,657,437Arts & Culture$1,130,000Health$800,000Philanthropy$625,500Public Benefit$300,000Education$122,208Community Improvement$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST: $1,100,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $775,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $370,250 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPARKS FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK: $350,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetOAK PARK-RIVER FOREST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $270,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS: $175,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetOAK PARK EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $52,500 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCOLLABORATION FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD: $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellness House: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HEPH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OAK PARK AND RIVER FOREST: $22,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetOAK PARK MUTUAL AID INC: $20,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $17,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSARAH'S INN: $10,040 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE MILLION DEGREES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Nineteenth Century Charitable Association: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSTEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA HOUSE IN AUSTIN: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION OF OAK PARK: $10,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $5,862 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING FORWARD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION: $4,840 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS COLLEGE: $4,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT PINK NFP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Oak Park-River Forest…Good Heart Work Smart…John D and Catherine …The Chicago Community…Robert R McCormick Fo…AbbVie FoundationCme Group FoundationThe Lumpkin Family Fo…United Way of Metropo…Tim and Maureen Hunte…The Manaaki FoundationJoseph R & Helen Shak…
Oak Park-River Forest Community FoundationIL30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation · Good Heart Work Smart Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Robert R McCormick Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Cme Group Foundation · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Tim and Maureen Hunter Charitable Foundation · The Manaaki Foundation · Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family 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 T Kendall Hunt Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from T Kendall Hunt Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 T Kendall Hunt Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to T Kendall Hunt Family Foundation Inc 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 59 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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