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The Thomas and Sandra Hunt 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.

$32k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
56%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$11,500
Organizations funded a year
4 to 9
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$228k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 56% of the organizations The Thomas and Sandra Hunt Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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
FY2024still arriving6$32k67%
FY20239$22k56%
FY20224$16k50%
FY20215$30k60%
FY20205$20k60%
FY20198$25k88%
FY20184$14kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$36kReligion$36kFood & Nutrition$20kRecreation & Sports$11kEnvironment$11kMembership Benefit$9kPublic Benefit$8kArts & Culture$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Martins Episcopal Church$25,5004n/a
Vaquero Legacy Preservation Foundation$20,0003n/a
The Brookwood Community Inc$18,00010%
Memorial Park Conservancy Inc$11,00010%
River Oaks Garden Club$7,00021%
Hoffman Institute Foundation$5,97530%
Ducks Unlimited Inc$3,56530%
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School of Houston Inc$1,5002n/a
St Lukes United Methodist Church$1,0001n/a
Citizens For Animal Protection Inc$1,00010%
Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of The Thomas and Sandra Hunt Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Martins Episcopal Church$25,5004n/a
Vaquero Legacy Preservation Foundation$20,0003n/a
The Brookwood Community Inc$18,00010%
Memorial Park Conservancy Inc$11,00010%
River Oaks Garden Club$7,00021%
Hoffman Institute Foundation$5,97530%
Ducks Unlimited Inc$3,56530%
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School of Houston Inc$1,5002n/a
St Lukes United Methodist Church$1,0001n/a
Citizens For Animal Protection Inc$1,00010%
Fulshear Volunteer Fire Department$1,0001n/a
Medina Volunteer Fire Department Inc$1,00010%
Ex-Students' Association of Ut$1,00010%
Wags Fund$1,0001n/a

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($61k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Thomas and Sandra Hunt Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMemorial Park Conservancy Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRiver Oaks Garden Club: $7,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHoffman Institute Foundation: $5,975 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $3,565 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens For Animal Protection Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedina Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEx-Students' Association of Ut: $1,000 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 8.

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 Brown Foundation IncTX15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Brazelton Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Thomas and Sandra Hunt Foundation

How much does The Thomas and Sandra Hunt Foundation give?
The Thomas and Sandra Hunt Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $32,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The Thomas and Sandra Hunt Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Religion (23%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
Who are The Thomas and Sandra Hunt Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: St Martins Episcopal Church ($26k), Vaquero Legacy Preservation Foundation ($20k), The Brookwood Community Inc ($18k).
Does The Thomas and Sandra Hunt Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Thomas and Sandra Hunt 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Thomas and Sandra Hunt Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Brown Foundation Inc, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Brazelton Family Foundation.
Where is The Thomas and Sandra Hunt Foundation based?
The Thomas and Sandra Hunt Foundation is based in TX.

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 28 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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