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The Thomas and Sandra Hunt Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$228k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$11,500
MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY$11,000
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS$5,000
UT PRESIDENTS ASSOCIATION$2,500
EX-STUDENTS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS$1,000
RIVER OAKS GARDEN CLUB$1,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $4k → 8%FULSHEAR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 8%UT PRESIDENTS ASSOCIATION: $3k → 10%MEDINA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 12%BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY: $18k → 14%ST LUKES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $1k → 16%CAESAR KLEBERG WILDLIFE RESEARCH: $3k → 27%CORVETTE SWEEPS SUPERCAR: $1k → 8%VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS: $5k → 15%DUCKS UNLIMITED: $3k → 17%SHELBY MUSEUM SWEEPSTAKE: $1k → 12%HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%ELKINS HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 8%EX-STUDENTS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $1k → 10%VAQUERO LEGACY PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%SALVATION ARMY WOMEN'S AUXILIARY: $600 → 16%DUCKS UNLIMITED: $1k → 17%HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%ELKINS HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 8%VAQUERO LEGACY PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $5k → 16%DUCKS UNLIMITED: $65 → 17%BANDERA AMERICAN LEGION POST 157: $5k → 12%CITIZENS FOR ANIMAL PROTECTION: $1k → 16%BANDERA ISD: $5k → 12%ST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $12k → 16%VAQUERO LEGACY PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%ST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $5k → 16%RIDIN' THE RIVER COWBOY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH: $5k → 12%ST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $5k → 16%BANDERA AMERICAN LEGION POST 157: $4k → 12%SAINT MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $5k → 16%HOPE & HEALING CENTER: $4k → 16%WAGS FUND: $1k → 16%ST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $4k → 16%JESUIT CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL OF HOUSTON INC: $1k → 16%JESUIT CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL OF HOUSTON INC: $500 → 16%MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $11k → 16%RIVER OAKS GARDEN CLUB: $6k → 16%RIVER OAKS GARDEN CLUB: $1k → 16%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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$83k · 8 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
16

Total granted

$83k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+43%

Still filing today

50%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationFood & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RO
    River Oaks Garden Club
    2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +22%
  • HI
    HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $6k · revenue +188%
  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited Inc
    3× · 2019–2023 · $4k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • The Brookwood Community Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +48%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • VO
    VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
2
The Houston Audubon Society

To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…

Environment
3
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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4
Garden Club of Houston

The Club's mission is to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening and to protect the quality of the environment through programs and action in the fields of education, conservation, and civic improvement.

Environment
5
Houston Safari Club Foundation

Preserving the sport of hunting through education, conservation, and the promotion of our hunting heritage.

Animals
6
Hermann Park Conservancy

Hermann Park Conservancy is a citizens organization dedicated to the stewardship and improvement of Hermann Park - today and for generations to come.

Environment
7
Houston Zoo Inc

Mission: Connect communities with animals, inspiring action to save wildlife. Vision: Be a leader in the global movement to save wildlife. (Continued on Schedule O) Houston Zoo, Inc. (HZI) strives to be a zoo that practices exemplary…

Animals
8
Ducks Unlimited Inc Group Return

Ducks unlimited, inc. conserves, restores, and manages wetlands and associated habitats for north america's waterfowl. these habitats also benefit additional wildlife and people.

Environment
9
Forum of Civics Foundation

The Forum of Civics Foundation's mission is to support the River Oaks Garden Club by providing ongoing financial support to maintain the Forum of Civics building.

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10
Houston Parks Board

The Houston Parks Board mission is to expand, improve, and protect parks and greenspace in the Houston region.

Philanthropy
11
Houston Arboretum & Nature Center

The mission of the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center is to provide education about the natural environment to people of all ages and to protect and enhance the Arboretum as a haven and sanctuary for native plants and animals.

Environment
12
Texas Garden Clubs Inc

Preserve, protect and conserve the natural resources of this country through gardening and to maintain and enhance the beauty of our lands.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Park Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Medina Volunteer Fire Department Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $25,500 · OtherST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCHELKINS HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherELKINS HIGH SCHOOLBANDERA AMERICAN LEGION POST 157: $9,000 · OtherBANDERA AMERICAN LEGION POST 157Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS: $5,000 · OtherVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARSMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $5,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF FINE ARTSHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLSAINT MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherSAINT MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHRIDIN' THE RIVER COWBOY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH: $4,500 · OtherHOPE & HEALING CENTER: $4,400 · Other+9 more: $12,100 · Other+9 moreThe Brookwood Community Inc: $18,000 · EducationThe Brookwood Com…HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $5,975 · EducationHOFFMAN INSTITUTE…EX-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF UT: $1,000 · EducationMemorial Park Conservancy Inc: $11,000 · EnvironmentMemorial Park C…River Oaks Garden Club: $7,000 · EnvironmentRiver Oaks Gard…Ducks Unlimited Inc: $3,565 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited…VAQUERO LEGACY PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Food & NutritionVAQUERO LEGACY…Citizens For Animal Protection Inc: $1,000 · AnimalsMEDINA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $1,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$90,500Education$24,975Environment$21,565Food & Nutrition$20,000Animals$1,000Public Safety & Disaster$1,000

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

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
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.

  • Who funds VAQUERO LEGACY PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
  • Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
  • Who funds River Oaks Garden Club ↗
  • Who funds HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
  • Who funds Citizens For Animal Protection Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDINA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds EX-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF UT ↗

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 …Greater Houston Commu…Brazelton Family Foun…Shell USA Company Fou…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Raymond James Charita…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Thomas and Sandra Hunt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thomas and Sandra Hunt 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 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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