· Private foundation
The Hunter Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 450 BULL STREET FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| ELEVATE SAVANNAH | $50,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH GEORGIA | $15,000 |
| MEDBANK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BETHESDA ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| THE PISGAH CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EUELEVATE USA5× · 2019–2023 · $200k · revenue +200%
- ESELEVATE SAVANNAH2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +2%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $75k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- PHPLATT HEAL HOUSING ASSISTANCEone grant, 2024 · $5k
- SSSAFE SHELTER CENTER FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +60%
- SOSpanish Oaks Foundation Incone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -51% · 47% of their budget
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 savannah book festival is an annual event, free and open to the public, in celebration of the written work and its role in improving the human experience. our mission is to promote reading, writing, and civil conversation.
The Saluda Shoals Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization which serves as an advocate for the preservation and sustainability of Saluda Shoals Park through financial support, fostering partnerships, supporting programs and…
The Sacramento Tree Foundation is a community benefit organization working to grow thriving communities through stewardship of our urban forest.
The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…
The organization's primary mission is a grassroots initiative that advances sustainable development of natural, cultural and historic resources for enhanced quality of life and economic revitalization of communities in south carolina.
Florida state parks foundation preserves, protects, sustains and grows florida state parks.
To raise awareness and support the affordable and workforce housing initiatives in the greater savannah/chatham county area.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 16 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 ELEVATE USA ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE SAVANNAH ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds 450 BULL STREET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH TREE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDBANK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PISGAH CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SAFE SHELTER CENTER FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Spanish Oaks Foundation Inc ↗
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 Savannah Community Foundation Inc · The Hodge Foundation Inc · John G Kennedy Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hunter Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hunter Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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