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Vard Hunt Family Foundation Inc

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.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$88kEducation$39kYouth Development$31kCivil Rights$20kArts & Culture$7kReligion$4kFood & Nutrition$4kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$201k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KAUAI NORTH SHORE LIONS FOUNDATION$20,000
KILAUEA SCHOOL PTSA$10,600
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII-KAUAI$8,500
ZONTA FOUNDATION OF HANALEI$3,000
GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL$2,500
KILAUEA POINT NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE$1,000
HELPING ELDERS LIVE PRODUCTIVELY$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $1k) 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%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $800 → 14%Seasons Hospice Foundation: $300 → 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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$157k · 9 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +148% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
25

Total granted

$157k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+148%
+28%

Still filing today

22%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • KN
    KAUAI NORTH SHORE LIONS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2025 · $87k
  • ZF
    ZONTA FOUNDATION OF HANALEI
    7× · 2018–2025 · $20k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII-KAUAI
    3× · 2023–2025 · $17k

Funded once

  • NE
    Namahana Education Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +63%
  • MB
    MANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +28%
  • OR
    OUR RESCUE
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +21%
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
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
2
E Kupaku Ka Aina - the Hawaii Land Restoration Institute
Environment
3
Hawaii Exemplary State Foundation
Community Improvement
4
Na Mamo o Kawa

to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.

Environment
5
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
6
Malama Kua Aina
Environment
7
Ka Ha O Ka Aina
Environment
8
Na Hoa Aloha O Ka Pu Uhonua O Honaunau

For the benefit and inspiration of ALL, Na Hoa Aloha o ka Pu'uhonua o Honaunau participates with NPS and other partners to protect and preserve cultural and natural resources, guided by the aacestral knowledge of South Kona.

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9
The Ohana Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Hanalei River Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Kauai Ballet Academy Foundation
Arts & Culture
12
Aloha Foundation
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Albatross Foundation. 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

16 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. 16 of the 37 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KAUAI NORTH SHORE LIONS FOUNDATION: $87,350 · OtherKAUAI NORTH SHORE LIONS FOUNDATIONZONTA FOUNDATION OF HANALEI: $20,000 · OtherZONTA FOUNDATION OF HANALEINamahana Education Foundation: $20,000 · OtherNamahana Education FoundationBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII-KAUAI: $16,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII-KAUAIBoys Girls Club of Hawaii - Kauai: $12,245 · OtherBoys Girls Club of Hawaii - KauaiKilauea School PTSA: $10,700 · OtherKilauea School PTSA+20 more: $18,905 · Other+20 moreMANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3,500 · EducationKAUAI HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2,580 · EducationOUR RESCUE: $2,500 · Arts & CultureHEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $250 · Arts & CultureAlbatross Foundation: $1,000 · PhilanthropyKAUAI NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $800 · Human ServicesSEASONS HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $300 · Human ServicesAINA HOOKUPU O KILAUEA: $1,000 · Food & NutritionThe Rescue Tube Foundation: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$185,700Education$6,080Arts & Culture$3,750Philanthropy$1,500Human Services$1,100Food & Nutrition$1,000Recreation & Sports$1,000

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 budgetNamahana Education Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKilauea School PTSA: $10,700 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetMANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR RESCUE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAINA HOOKUPU O KILAUEA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Rescue Tube Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetAlbatross Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAUAI NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEASONS HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $145 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 Namahana Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Kilauea School PTSA ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KAUAI HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds THE GARDEN ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds HEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AINA HOOKUPU O KILAUEA ↗
  • Who funds The Rescue Tube Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Albatross Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds KAUAI NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SEASONS HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds OHANA OASIS INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA11.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Vard Hunt Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Vard Hunt Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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