· Private foundation
The James Huntington Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of The James Huntington Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The James Huntington Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 19 organizations, $953k. It is dated, not current.
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+2 grants · $543k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY - CHICAGO | $271,250 |
| SALVATION ARMY - TUCSON | $271,250 |
| MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $75,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| TUCSON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PROPUBLICA | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO | $20,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| FRESH AIR FUND | $10,000 |
| OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
64 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- MSMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC6× · 2020–2025 · $410k · revenue ×16
University of Arizona Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $345k · revenue +54%- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- GSGREATER SANTA BARBARA ICE SKATING ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +159%
- DCDELPHOS CANAL COMMISSIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +34%
- ATACHIEVE TAHOEone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -11%
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.
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Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Delphos Canal Commission. 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 46 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 9% 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.
67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 87 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TMC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds Tucson Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORIC BLOCK INC ↗
- Who funds The Amerind Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SABINO CANYON INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SONORAN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG NAPERVILLE SINGERS ↗
- Who funds Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE WOMAN'S BOARD OF NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON AREA COMM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Phi Delta Theta Foundation ↗
- Who funds TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS ↗
- Who funds ORINDA NETWORK FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON AREA CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds REWILD ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Yellow-Crowned Foundation · Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Hayt Family Charitable Fund · The Corwith Fund · The Stonewall Foundation · D and R Charitable Fund
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 James Huntington 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.
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% 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.