· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ACCESS SUPPORTS FOR LIVING INC | $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 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,500 |
| NEIGHBORS LINK | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hunter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hunter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Hunter Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Hunter 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.
Play a game based on Hunter’s filings →