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The Hullar Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$227kHealth$122kCivil Rights$71kEducation$33kInternational$27kFood & Nutrition$23kArts & Culture$13kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $125k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FINGERS LAKE LAND TRUST$30,000
FRENCH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF OREGON$15,000
JOHN HOPKINS WILMER EYE INSTITUTE$15,000
TUCKER MAXON SCHOOL$10,000
CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND$10,000
FISHER CENTER ALZHEIMER RESEARCH$10,000
VA RESEARCH FDN OF PORTLAND$10,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$10,000
THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION$2,500
OREGON FOOD BANK$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING$1,000
STREET BOOKS$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ARIZONA: $4k → 11%TUSCON SYMPHONY: $5k → 15%CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND: $10k → 7%GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $5k → 10%ACE MAKERSPACE: $15k → 10%YUROK TRIBE WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT: $10k → 17%ADIRONDACK EXPERIENCE: $8k → 11%FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST: $107k → 16%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $6k → 18%FRENCH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $15k → 8%WILLAMETTE FALLS LAND TRUST: $5k → 8%TUCKER MAXON SCHOOL: $10k → 12%SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $5k → 8%SUQUAMISH FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5k → 7%JOHN HOPKINS WILMER EYE INSTITUTE: $15k → 6%FINGERS LAKE LAND TRUST: $30k → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD - INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 17%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $5k → 18%FRENCH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $15k → 8%TUCKER MAXON SCHOOL: $10k → 12%SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $5k → 8%JOHN HOPKINS WILMER EYE INSTITUTE: $8k → 6%FINGERS LAKE LAND TRUST: $30k → 16%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $4k → 17%SOUTHERN PROVERTY LAW CENTER: $4k → 18%SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $4k → 8%JOHN HOPKINS WILMER EYE INSTITUTE: $5k → 6%FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST: $25k → 16%FINCA INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 14%FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST: $13k → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD NATIONAL OFFICE: $7k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD NATIONAL OFFICE: $6k → 17%ACLU FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%RAZOM FOR UKRAINE: $15k → 17%ACLU FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%FISHER CENTER ALZHEIMER RESEARCH: $10k → 17%FISHER CENTER ALZHEIMER RESEARCH: $10k → 17%FISHER CENTER ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $9k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF OREGON: $15k → 12%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF OREGON: $13k → 12%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF OREGON: $10k → 12%VA RESEARCH FDN OF PORTLAND: $10k → 12%ACLU: $16k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF OREGON: $5k → 12%ACLU - NATIONAL: $9k → 17%VA RESEARCH FDN OF PORTLAND: $10k → 12%ACLU - NATIONAL: $8k → 17%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
MT
NY
OR
CA
UT
VA
MD
AZ
NM
DC
AL
TX
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$550k · 26 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
17

Total granted

$550k
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
0%

Still filing today

58%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalHealthCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • TF
    The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $205k · revenue +15%
  • FI
    FRENCH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF OREGON
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +4%
  • TUCKER MAXON SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • A
    ACLU
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
  • RAZOM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -32%
  • YT
    YUROK TRIBE WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
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
2
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
3
Amazon Conservation Team

The amazon conservation team (act) partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture.

Science & Tech
4
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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5
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
6
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)

Environment
7
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
8
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
9
International Snow Leopard Trust

The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…

Animals
10
The International Dark-Sky Association Inc

Darksky international restores the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation.

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11
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
12
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Wilderness Alliance; the most unlike its peers is The Amerind Foundation Inc. 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

26 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. 26 of the 47 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)
25/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF OREGON: $43,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF OREGONJOHN HOPKINS WILMER EYE INSTITUTE: $33,500 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS WILMER EYE INSTITUTEACLU FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherACLU FOUNDATIONFISHER CENTER ALZHEIMER RESEARCH: $20,000 · OtherFISHER CENTER ALZHEIMER RESEARCHVA RESEARCH FDN OF PORTLAND: $20,000 · OtherVA RESEARCH FDN OF PORTLANDTUCKER MAXON SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherTUCKER MAXON SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $17,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLANNED PARENTHOOD NATIONAL OFFICE: $16,600 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC: $16,500 · OtherACLU: $16,000 · Other+18 more: $96,500 · Other+18 moreThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $204,500 · EnvironmentThe Finger Lakes Land Trust IncSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $14,000 · EnvironmentSouthern Utah Wilderness AllianceGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $10,500 · EnvironmentNEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $8,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentFRENCH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF OREGON: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Arts & CultureOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $3,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $2,000 · Arts & CultureWild Earth Society Incorporated: $1,750 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureRAZOM INC: $15,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $7,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 · InternationalALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC: $7,000 · HealthSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $14,500 · Crime & LegalStreet Books: $1,000 · Education
Other$324,600Environment$238,000Arts & Culture$49,250International$27,000Health$17,000Crime & Legal$14,500Education$1,000

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 budgetThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $204,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetFRENCH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF OREGON: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTUCKER MAXON SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC: $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $14,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWild Earth Society Incorporated: $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARIZONA SENIOR ACADEMY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Amerind Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStreet Books: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE SOUTHERN FINGER LAKES INC: $500 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 The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRENCH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF OREGON ↗
  • Who funds TUCKER MAXON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC ↗
  • Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
  • Who funds GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC ↗
  • Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗

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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Hullar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hullar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Symphony Association: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
⤢ 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 47 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home