How much did The Hulston Family Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of The Hulston Family Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

southwest

2019

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2020

covid relieffoodriver

2021

riverscholarships

2022

literacyfoodreliefriver

2023

youthfoodclinicscholarshipsriver

2024

springfieldreadscholarshipsriver

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $15k
$10k–50k35 grants · $630k
$50k–250k8 grants · $405k
$250k+1 grant · $300k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$40M

Total assets

Largest grants

Greater Kansas City Community Fdn$300,000
Cox Health Foundation$55,000
Kanbe's Markets$50,000
Ozarks Food Harvest$50,000
Isabel's House Crisis Nursery$50,000
Springfield Victory Mission$50,000
Univ MO Law School Foundation$50,000
Ozarks Technical Community College$50,000
CASA of Southwest Missouri$50,000
Salvation Army$30,000
Amethyst Place$30,000
Habitat for Humanity$25,000
James River Basin Partnership$25,000
Pete's Garden$25,000
Generations Village$25,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $665k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.4M · 53 repeat orgs$948k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.4M

$695k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%

+151%

Still filing today

42%

32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEnvironmentHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

Greater Kansas City Community Fdn
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +119%
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Ozarks Technical Community College
5× · 2020–2024 · $225k · revenue +205%
OF
Ozarks Food Harvest
4× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +36%

Funded once

WC
Wilsons Creek National Battlefield
one grant, 2019 · $100k
FA
Foster Adopt Connectgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +317%
CM
Children's Miracle Network
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +2%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Care Center of Kansas City

Swope ridge geriatric center is a not for-profit corporation whose mission is to provide a continuum of long term care services to our community. we are committed to delivering quality health care with compassion and caring for adult…

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North Central Kansas Housing

Community Improvement

Community Builders of Kansas City

To change the landscape by igniting and fueling equity, access, opportunity, and advocacy.

Housing & Shelter

Community Health Center of Se Kansas

To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.

Health

Kc Common Good Inc

Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.

Employment

Empower Missouri

To secure basic human needs and equal justice for every person in our state through coalition-building and advocacy.

Human Services

Downtown Kansas City Civic Ventures

To improve the greater downtown and urban core of kansas city through educational and service programs, including providing coordinated social and community services to persons who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and lessen the…

Human Services

Community Health Center of Central Missouri

To provide medical, dental and mental health services to residents of cole, osage, moniteau and callaway counties regardless of ability to pay.

Human Services

Mercy Kansas Communities

As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.

Health

Kansas City Dream Center Co

The Kansas City Dream Center connects people in need to a community of support by offering free resources and services that address immediate and long-term needs in the areas of abuse, addiction, education, homelessness and poverty.

Housing & Shelter

Kansas City Community Land Trust

Expand homeownership via a community land trust model of real estate development.

Housing & Shelter

Kansas Appleseed Center

We believe Kansans, working together, can build a state full of thriving, inclusive, and just communities. We're working for a future where:- All Kansans have the resources they need to support themselves and raise healthy families.- All…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fosteradopt Connect Inc and the most unlike its peers is Earth Day Springfield Festival. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/43

the rest of the field

12%

808/6,998

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/39

Grantees still filing

37/39

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,501,000Philanthropy$2,285,000Human Services$665,000Food & Nutrition$345,000Health$235,000Environment$157,500Public Benefit$125,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation of the Ozarks IncMO45.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr · Musgrave Foundation · Health Care Foundation of Greater Kc · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Roy W Slusher Charitable Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation The Hulston Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Generations Village.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 821125195 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Generations Village, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Hulston Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Hulston Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

The Hulston Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Hulston Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

The Hulston Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Hulston Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph