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The Hunter Grubb Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$166k
Granted FY2020
19
Grants FY2020
19
Organizations funded FY2020
21%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 19
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
5
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 21% of the organizations The Hunter Grubb Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Food & NutritionArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202019$166k21%
FY201916$108k13%
FY201815$95k7%
FY201715$89kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Food & Nutrition$138kEnvironment$115kEducation$49kYouth Development$36kCivil Rights$30kArts & Culture$25kHuman Services$25kHealth$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of The Hunter Grubb Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Greenwave Organization Corp$40,00042%
City Seed Inc$40,00043%
Hartford Food System Inc$32,50032%
Third Sector New England Inc$30,00040%
Connecticut College$26,00040%
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc$25,00041%
Glynwood Center Inc$25,00040%
Equity Trust Inc$25,00043%
Partakers Inc$20,00044%
Yellow Farmhouse Education Center Inc$20,00026%
Naturebridge$20,00040%
Zero Foodprint$10,00011%
Sustainable Markets Foundation$10,00010%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($134k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hunter Grubb Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreenwave Organization Corp: $40,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCity Seed Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetHartford Food System Inc: $32,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetThird Sector New England Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut College: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Farmland Trust Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetGlynwood Center Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEquity Trust Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetPartakers Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetYellow Farmhouse Education Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetNaturebridge: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetZero Foodprint: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSustainable Markets Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

The Martha and Hunter Grubb Foundation IncCT22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Martha and Hunter Grubb Foundation Inc · The Robert Stern Family Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Hunter Grubb Foundation Inc

How much does The Hunter Grubb Foundation Inc give?
The Hunter Grubb Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $166,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does The Hunter Grubb Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (30%), Environment (25%), Education (11%).
Who are The Hunter Grubb Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Greenwave Organization Corp ($40k), City Seed Inc ($40k), Hartford Food System Inc ($33k).
Does The Hunter Grubb Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Hunter Grubb Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Hunter Grubb Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Martha and Hunter Grubb Foundation Inc, The Robert Stern Family Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is The Hunter Grubb Foundation Inc based?
The Hunter Grubb Foundation Inc is based in CT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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