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The Nancy and Herbert Hunt Family 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.

$80k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$3.3MHealth$202kYouth Development$65kHuman Services$63kArts & Culture$41kPhilanthropy$10kEducation$6kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$186k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Retina Foundation of the Southwest$60,000
Circle Ten Council Boy Scouts of America$10,000
The Crystal Charity Ball$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Clayton Dabney for Kids with Cancer: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
$3.7M · 6 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
14

Total granted

$3.7M
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+9%

Still filing today

83%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RF
    RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST
    6× · 2019–2024 · $195k · revenue +47%
  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +28%
  • TC
    THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • CW
    CHILDREN WITH JESUS SCULPTURE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · 57% of their budget
  • FF
    Farrah Fawcett Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • SO
    Sons of The Flag
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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.

1
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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3
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
4
Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

—
5
The Real Estate Council Inc

Trec's mission is to cultivate relationships in the commercial real estate industry to catalyze community investment, influence policy, propel careers and develop the leaders of tomorrow.we believe relationships are the lifeblood of career…

—
6
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

—
7
Texas Children's Hospital Foundation

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

Health
8
Cook Children's Health Plan

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
9
Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
10
Cook Children's Physician Network

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
11
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
12
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Crystal Charity Ball; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

15 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. 15 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGHLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $3,332,733 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH+11 more: $31,900 · OtherRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST: $195,200 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $60,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN WITH JESUS SCULPTURE INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureThe Prayer Covenant Inc: $10,000 · ReligionCLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$3,364,633Health$196,200Youth Development$65,000Philanthropy$60,000Arts & Culture$30,500Religion$10,000Human Services$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST: $195,200 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL: $65,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN WITH JESUS SCULPTURE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetThe Prayer Covenant Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN VILLAGE NORTH FOREFRONT LIVING: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Health Resources Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOULS HARBOR INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Bunker Sands Wetland Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRISWELL COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalesmanship Club of Dallas: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Communities Foundatio…The Rosewood Foundati…The Perot FoundationThe Rees-Jones Founda…The Dallas FoundationChristian Community F…Texas Instruments Fou…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX18.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Rosewood Foundation · The Perot Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Nancy and Herbert Hunt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nancy and Herbert Hunt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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