· Private foundation
The Hunt Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k52 grants · $179k
- $10k–50k47 grants · $954k
- $50k–250k39 grants · $4.3M
- $250k+6 grants · $7.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO | $3,200,000 |
| TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC | $2,250,000 |
| NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| THE EPC MUSEUM | $500,000 |
| SW FOUNDATION FOR OSTEOPATHIC ED RES | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO | $200,000 |
| PASO DEL NORTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE | $200,000 |
| UNIV OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CTR | $200,000 |
| CREEED FOUNDATION | $187,500 |
| CREEED FOUNDATION | $187,500 |
| WESTERN RESOURCE ADVOCATES | $150,000 |
| TEXAS 2036 | $150,000 |
| CREEED | $130,353 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $478k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of The Hunt Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 80% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
114 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TTTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $10M · revenue +14%
- NMNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +148%
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +193%
Funded once
- CECOMMUNITY EN ACCIONone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -66% · 50% of their budget
- BBBORDERPLEX BI-NATIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION FKA EL PASO REGgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $135k · revenue +47% · 54% of their budget
- CGClaremont Graduate Universityone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -18%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To recruit new industry and facilitate the retention and expansion of new jobs and capital investment in the greater el paso, las cruces and juarez region.
The el paso chamber exists to operate exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific, and literary purposes relating to the city of el paso. the chamber foundation serves as its supporting organization to pursue grants to fund…
Our mission:project bravo builds bridges to opportunities that help individuals and families thrive in our community.
The mission of El Paso Leadership Academy is to prepare its students to obtain a four year college degree and to become engaged leaders in their community.
To create a permanent endowment fund to support the el paso museum of art. a portion of the capital appreciation and earnings are distributed annually to the el paso museum of art and used for acquisitions, conservation and preservation,…
The mission of el paso chamber of commerce is to support business and our community by providing opportunities for connecting, coaching, advocating, and innovating.
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
Paso del Norte Health Information Exchange exists to promote the health of El Paso County and surrounding communities by facilitating the creation and operation of a health information exchange. The central activity of the organization is…
The foundation was formed to receive gifts and to invest, manage and distribute such gifts for the benefit of the el paso community college and its students. the foundation promotes education and other related activities of the college.
The purpose of the organization is to develop and facilitate the implementation of goals and programs that will enhance educational opportunities.
El paso symphony foundation is a separate corporation which provides the el paso symphony orchestra association with charitable and educational support.
Lead efforts to identify and support initiatives that improve college readiness and ensure more students graduate with a college degree or certification. partner with education leaders, funders, and regional, state, and national…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community En Accion and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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.
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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
136 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 136 of the 176 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds New Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EPC MUSEUM DBA LA NUBE ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Paso del Norte Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Texas 2036 ↗
- Who funds EL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER ↗
- Who funds SW FOUNDATION FOR OSTEOPATHIC ↗
- Who funds EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Western Resource Advocates ↗
- Who funds El Paso Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds Lydia Patterson Institute ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BUSINESS IMMIGRATION COALITION ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds YSLETA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foundation for a Globally Competitive Texas ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY EN ACCION ↗
- Who funds El Paso Civic Education Organization ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ARRIBA ↗
- Who funds El Paso Museum of History Foundation ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EL PASO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL CENTER OF THE AMERICAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EL PASO GUIDANCE CENTER INC dba EL PASO CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Paso del Norte Community Foundation · El Paso Community Foundation · Hervey Foundation · The Electric Company Charitable Foundation · Robert E & Evelyn McKee Foundation · Paul L Foster Family Foundation · United Way of El Paso County · Gecu Foundation · Wilma Donohue Moleen Foundation Xxxxx7003 · Paso del Norte Health Foundation · Feinberg Foundation · The Shiloff Family 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 organization The Hunt 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.
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 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.
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