How much does The James Huntington Foundation give?

The James Huntington Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $952,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 66 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The James Huntington Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (81%), Human Services (8%), Arts & Culture (3%).

Who are The James Huntington Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Merit School of Music ($410k), University of Arizona Foundation ($345k), University of Nebraska Foundation ($120k).

Does The James Huntington Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The James Huntington Foundation 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.

Where is The James Huntington Foundation based?

The James Huntington Foundation is based in IL.

The James Huntington Foundation

The James Huntington Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$953k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$271k

Largest

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

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$21MHuman Services$2.1MArts & Culture$847kHealth$810kEducation$595kRecreation & Sports$126kInternational$120kEnvironment$103kOther$0

02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k11 grants · $45k
$10k–50k13 grants · $215k
$50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$250k+2 grants · $543k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SALVATION ARMY - CHICAGO	$271,250
SALVATION ARMY - TUCSON	$271,250
MAYO CLINIC	$75,000
MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC	$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION	$45,000
TUCSON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION	$25,000
PROPUBLICA	$20,000
LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO	$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION	$20,000
OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL	$15,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA	$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA	$10,000
OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC	$10,000
TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART	$10,000
ARIZONA PUBLIC MEDIA	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.4M · 64 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.4M

$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+34%

Still filing today

78%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

MS
MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC
6× · 2020–2025 · $410k · revenue ×16
University of Arizona Foundation
5× · 2020–2024 · $345k · revenue +54%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +31%

Funded once

GS
GREATER SANTA BARBARA ICE SKATING ASSOCIATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +159%
DC
DELPHOS CANAL COMMISSIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +34%
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ACHIEVE TAHOE
one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +14%

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.

04Its field

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.

Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture

The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals

Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy

Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

United States Naval Institute

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.

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National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

American Water Works Association

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.

Public Benefit

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 87 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

66/67

Grantees still filing

48/67

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$21,380,353Other$2,841,500Arts & Culture$725,000Health$627,500Education$541,500International$120,000Environment$89,000

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.

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.

Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ24.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The James Huntington Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James Huntington Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home