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The Hullinger Family Foundation at a glance

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The Hullinger Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$268k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$37k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$523kInternational$492kArts & Culture$250kHealth$193kAnimals$119kHuman Services$111kReligion$25kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $200k
$2,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL$37,241
CHAIR THE LOVE$31,822
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY$28,600
LDS CHURCH$25,500
HALE CENTER THEATER$22,800
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY$17,000
Individual grant recipient$16,871
PRIMARY CHILDRENS MEDICAL CTR$10,000
SHELTER BOX$10,000
NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION$8,000
KURDISTAN NURSING FOUNDATION$8,000
PHEASANTS FOREVER$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL$5,000
OLD MILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$4,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SHELTER BOX: $10k → 9%CHAIR THE LOVE: $32k → 11%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $8k → 7%SHELTER BOX: $10k → 9%CHAIR THE LOVE: $5k → 11%SHELTER BOX: $10k → 9%SHELTER BOX: $10k → 9%SHELTER BOX: $10k → 9%SHELTER BOX: $10k → 9%SHELTER BOX: $7k → 9%SHELTER BOX: $5k → 9%SHELTER BOX: $5k → 9%EAGLE CONDOR FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $1k → 8%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

NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
CA
UT
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
SC
DC
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 52 repeat orgs$237k to everyone else

52 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
59

Total granted

$1.5M
$182k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+47%

Still filing today

33%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalAnimalsArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyOther
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
    HALE CENTRE THEATRE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $119k · revenue +147%
  • SU
    SHELTERBOX USA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +147%
  • CT
    Chair The Love Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $37k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • MA
    MEETINGS AND FOUNDATION BUSINESS
    one grant, 2018 · $13k
  • TJ
    Thomas Jefferson School of Law
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -19%
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
Utah Geological Foundation
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2
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
3
Utah Public Health Association

The Utah Public Health Association (UPHA) is a statewide membership organization dedicated to improving the health of Utah communities by supporting and representing the public health workforce. UPHA advances public health through…

Health
4
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
5
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.

Environment
6
Utah Foundation

Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…

Public Benefit
7
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
8
Real Salt Lake Foundation
Human Services
9
Utah Zoological Society

Utah's hogle zoo creates champions for wildlife and is our community's gateway to animals, connecting our visitors with the natural world and engaging them in wildlife conservation action locally and worldwide.

Animals
10
The Community Foundation of Utah

We are utah's partner in philanthropy, pioneering innovation and collaboration to invest in our community today for a brighter tomorrow.

Philanthropy
11
Trails Utah

Trails Utah is dedicated to trails advocacy, planning, funding, and construction in needed areas throughout the state.

Environment
12
Sci Utah Foundation

To ensure the future of wildlife through conservation, education and hunting.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc; the most unlike its peers is William a Burnard Warming Center. 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

39 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. 39 of the 124 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/39
Grantees still filing
30/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LDS CHURCH: $244,916 · OtherLDS CHURCHBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY: $234,386 · OtherBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITYUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $155,700 · OtherUTAH STATE UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $100,994 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $90,078 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPRIMARY CHILDREN'S CANCER: $53,100 · OtherPHEASANTS FOREVER: $52,700 · Other+91 more: $486,427 · Other+91 moreSHELTERBOX USA INC: $77,000 · Human ServicesChair The Love Inc: $36,965 · Human ServicesNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $8,000 · Human Services+4 more: $9,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $92,646 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,000 · InternationalCHARITY ANYWHERE INC: $7,100 · International+4 more: $11,500 · InternationalHALE CENTRE THEATRE: $118,942 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureThomas Jefferson School of Law: $10,000 · EducationSOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · EducationCEDAR CITY ROTARY FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · EducationSEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC: $6,000 · HealthZahara Charity: $5,000 · HealthREEL RECOVERY INC: $4,500 · HealthTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $7,500 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $1,000 · Animals+1 more: $50 · Animals
Other$1,418,301Human Services$130,965International$125,246Arts & Culture$120,442Education$15,500Health$15,500Animals$8,550

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 budgetHALE CENTRE THEATRE: $118,942 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $92,646 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC: $77,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetChair The Love Inc: $36,965 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThomas Jefferson School of Law: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY ANYWHERE INC: $7,100 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE IRONMAN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREEL RECOVERY INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTHLINC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNASHUA COMMUNITY ARTS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS SAFE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLifting Hands International: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOPE ALLIANCE: $3,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR CITY ROTARY FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWilliam A Burnard Warming Center: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKostopulos Dream Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Amigo: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSalt Lake Education Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH NONPROFITS ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEAGLE CONDOR FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDays For Girls International: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590: $1,450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION IN: $60 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $50 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 HALE CENTRE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Chair The Love Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Thomas Jefferson School of Law ↗
  • Who funds New Hampshire Catholic Charities ↗
  • Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARITY ANYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds SEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC ↗

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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…Bill and Pat Child Fa…George S and Dolores …The Community Foundat…Texas Instruments Fou…Banks Charitable Fdn-…Michel FoundationGlobus ReliefKennecott Utah Copper…Beesley Family Founda…McCarthey Family Foun…Making a Difference F…
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT25.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Bill and Pat Child Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Texas Instruments Foundation · Banks Charitable Fdn-Nuveen · Michel Foundation · Globus Relief · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Making a Difference 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 Hullinger Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hullinger Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%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
    5get no government money at all
    10report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Hullinger Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Hullinger Family Foundation 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 124 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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