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The Hunter Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
65% of The Hunter Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 33 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 $10k54 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND | $250,000 |
| NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP | $44,725 |
| US ROWING FOUNDATION | $13,519 |
| HOPKINS CENTER | $10,000 |
| DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $6,254 |
| MASTERVOICES INC NEW YORK | $5,000 |
| ACCESS SUPPORTS FOR LIVING INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS | $4,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC | $3,000 |
| DARTMOUTH HEALTH GIVING | $2,800 |
| NEIGHBORS LINK | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,500 |
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, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
66 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 16 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- NYNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC5× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +30%
- NHNEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2020–2023 · $43k · revenue +68%
- GCGUIDANCE CENTER OF WESTCHESTER INC2× · 2020–2021 · $33k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- ACACTBLUE CHARITIES INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -97%
- BPBRIDGE PRODUCTION FUNDING GROUPone grant, 2020 · $11k
- HIHELPHOPELIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +35%
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.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playwrights Horizons Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 118 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 JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDANCE CENTER OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS SUPPORTS FOR LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HILLTOP HANOVER FARM AND ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ACTBLUE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MASTERVOICES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS LINK CORP ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY ↗
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: The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Ibm International Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Nm Morris Family Foundation · Mbia Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Grunebaum Family Fund · Mt Roeschmore Foundation · Bauer 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 Hunter 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.
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- Northern Stage Company — 5% of income from government
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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