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JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN
JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN (North Carolina) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,145,532 to it, the largest being SAUL ZAENTZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($6,850,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $37M
- Net assets
- $12M
What James B Hunt Jr Institute for Educational Leadership & Policy Fdn does
Mission
To secure america's future through quality education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hunt-kean leadership fellows:senior, state-level political leaders who have the skill and will to be effective, reform-minded education policymakers in their states with leading minds in education, policy, and politics. The hk fellows curriculum is designed to equip participants with knowledge, relationships, and inspiration they need to engage in critical conversations about equity and lead on education reform in their current roles and as they pursue higher office. Each cohort includes at least 20 hk fellows, with each representing a different state and with the cohort maintaining a bipartisan balance.
$1,746,349 spent16% of program spendingState engagement:the institute is currently partnering with illinois, missouri, north carolina, north dakota, ohio, oklahoma, and virginia to provide a series of programming designed to build the capacity of state legislators as they tackle the education challenges facing their states. In each of its partner states, the institute hosts a state legislators retreat (slr) and offers ongoing learning experiences to legislators, such as access and invitations to the institute's national programming, virtual convenings and/or policy discussions that successfully connects a bipartisan group of policymakers with key national experts in education policy.
$1,314,060 spent12% of program spendingCross-state team engagement:the hunt institute continues to recognize the value of fostering both inter- and intra-state learning by convining state teams from across the country to discuss topics from across the education continuum. Our program, policy and content teams have expertise in early childhood, k12, educator workforce pipelines, and higher education. These convenings can be topical in nature, such as the early childhood summit, governors advisors retreats, hbcu convenings, attainment summits, literacy initiatives or geared toward convening state teams including governors' advisors/policy directors, state chiefs, higher education reps, legislators, and others to discuss topical issues addressing the full education continuum.
$7,924,595 spent$1,064,369 earned by the program72% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,985,004.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $19M (+65%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
85% of JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Javaid Siddiqi Phd
President and CEO
Board chair
Arne Duncan
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $101k → $5.9M.
9 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
33% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 38% · 2019 33% · 2020 33% · 2021 19% · 2022 25% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN?
- JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN (North Carolina) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,145,532 to it, the largest being SAUL ZAENTZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($6,850,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $37,145,532 in grants to JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN?
- SAUL ZAENTZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 49 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing