· Private foundation
William and Diane Hunckler 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA | $20,000 |
| ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY | $5,000 |
| ASPEN WORDS | $5,000 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $5,000 |
| LA CLINICA | $5,000 |
| WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +243%- EIEnglish in Action4× · 2019–2022 · $18k · revenue +349%
- AJAspen Jewish Center2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- RIRehabilitation Institute of Chicagoone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +5%
- NINYAKA INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +53%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -40%
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.
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.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
We help leaders working for social change build and run more equitable, sustainable, and results-driven organizations.
To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…
To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families
Community organization dedicated to advancing a deep understanding of global affairs and cultures.
Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.
World coffee research unites the global coffee industry to drive science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come. our mission is to grow, protect,…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
How this is measured
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 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds English in Action ↗
- Who funds Aspen Jewish Center ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds NYAKA INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds A Way Out Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
- Who funds TUTORING CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William and Diane Hunckler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William and Diane Hunckler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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