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The Hull Family Foundation at a glance

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The Hull Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$255k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$410kEducation$291kArts & Culture$97kHuman Services$90kAnimals$82kPublic Safety & Disaster$54kYouth Development$18kScience & Tech$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETHANY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FUND$50,000
HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL$30,000
JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$30,000
BROWARD HEALTH FOUNDATION$30,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY$20,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$20,000
BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE$10,000
BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION$10,000
WOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY$10,000
MARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$10,000
FLORIDA NATIONAL GUARD FOUNDATION$5,000
COAST GUARD FOUNDATION$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BROWARD$5,000
THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$984k · 26 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
12

Total granted

$984k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+63%

Still filing today

54%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureOther
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

  • HC
    HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $143k · revenue +43%
  • NB
    NORTH BROWARD HOSPITAL DISTRICT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $118k · revenue +728%
  • MC
    MARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • NS
    NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • BC
    BROWARD COLLEGE FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • FL
    FORT LAUDERDALE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +63%
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
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
2
Us Navy Memorial Foundation

The navy memorial mission is to honor, recognize and celebrate the men and women of the sea services and the important contributions made by them while serving in the united states navy, marine corps, coast guard and merchant marine. the…

Arts & Culture
3
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…

Environment
4
Mote Marine Laboratory Inc

The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…

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5
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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6
Florida Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc

Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.

—
7
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
8
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
9
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
10
For the Fishes

To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…

Animals
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
12
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coast Guard Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Fund for American Studies. 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

21 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. 21 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BETHANY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FUND: $120,000 · OtherBETHANY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FUNDBROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $42,500 · OtherBROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INCMARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION: $40,000 · OtherMARINE CORPS ASSOCIATIONTHE SALVATION ARMY: $35,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient: $28,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBROWARD COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $28,000 · OtherBROWARD COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BROWARD: $17,500 · OtherTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $15,500 · Other+19 more: $108,500 · Other+19 moreHOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC: $142,500 · HealthHOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INCJOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 · HealthJOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDAT…NORTH BROWARD HOSPITAL DISTRICT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $117,500 · HealthNORTH BROWARD HOSPITAL DISTRICT CHARITAB…+2 more: $10,000 · HealthHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $105,000 · EducationHILLSDALE …HUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $50,000 · AnimalsBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $20,000 · AnimalsWOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · Public BenefitFlorida National Guard Foundation Inc: $16,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$460,500Health$410,000Education$105,000Animals$70,000Human Services$55,000Public Benefit$17,500Public Safety & Disaster$16,000

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 budgetHOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC: $142,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH BROWARD HOSPITAL DISTRICT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $117,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $105,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $42,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida National Guard Foundation Inc: $16,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFORT LAUDERDALE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $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.

  • Who funds HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH BROWARD HOSPITAL DISTRICT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Florida National Guard Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FORT LAUDERDALE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTH FLORIDA 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.

Community Foundation …Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Broward IncFL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Broward Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Hull Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hull Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Goodwill Industries of South Florida Inc: 24% of income from government
  • International Game Fish Association Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Holy Cross Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get 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 · 0–60%
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.

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 40 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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By state
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