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The Hullar Foundation

Portland, OR · EIN 20-3622315. Reported 42 grants totalling $425,100 to 36 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,250median grant
$425,100granted, 2021-2024
36organizations funded
15%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,362,356assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Hullar Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,250. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,100 and $10,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $107,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
14 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
13 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
12 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Finger Lakes Land TrustIthaca, NY$144,500332023
Fingers Lake Land TrustIthaca, NY$30,000112024
Planned Parenthood of OregonPortland, OR$28,000332023
Ace MakerspaceOakland, CA$15,000112024
ACLU FoundationPortland, OR$15,000112024
French International SchoolPortland, OR$15,000112024
Razom for UkraineNew York, NY$15,000112023
John Hopkins Wilmer Eye InstituteFrederick, MD$12,500222023
Planned Parenthood National OfficeNew York, NY$10,100222022
Fisher Center Alzheimer ResearchNew York, NY$10,000112024
Planned Parenthood - InternationalNew York, NY$10,000112024
Tucker Maxon SchoolPortland, OR$10,000112023
Va Research Fdn of PortlandPortland, OR$10,000112024
Yurok Tribe Wildlife DepartmentKlamath, CA$10,000112023
Fisher Center Alzheimers Research FoundationNew York, NY$9,000112023
ACLU - NationalNew York, NY$8,500112021
Adirondack ExperienceBlue Mountain Lake, NY$7,500112021
Southern Poverty Law CenterMontgomery, AL$5,500112021
Finca InternationalWashington, DC$5,000112024
Nature ConservancyArlington, VA$5,000112023
Southern Utah Wilderness AllianceS Salt Lake City, UT$5,000112021
Suquamish FoundationSuquamish, WA$5,000112024
University of Houston - Conrad N Hilton CollegeHouston, TX$5,000112022
Willamette Falls Land TrustOregon City, OR$5,000112023
Greater Yellowstone CoalitionBozeman, MT$4,500112021
Doctors Without BordersNew York, NY$4,000112021
ACLU - OregonPortland, OR$3,000112021
Fisher Center for Alzheimer's ResearchNew York, NY$3,000112021
New Mexico Wilderness AllianceAlbuquerque, NM$3,000112021
Oregon SymphonyPortland, OR$3,000112021
The Wilderness SocietyPasadena, CA$3,000112021
National Museum of African American History & CultureWashington, DC$1,500112021
National Museum of the American IndianNew York, NY$1,500112021
Library FoundationStayton, OR$1,000112021
National Resources Defense CouncilNew York, NY$1,000112021
Oregon Public BroadcastingPortland, OR$1,000112021

4 of 36 (11%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 15%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 14 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Environment
7 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants
International Affairs
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Crime & Legal
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202120$81,100$3,050
20224$129,000$8,500
20239$100,000$10,000
20249$115,000$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 60% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$254K
Oregon
$91K
California
$28K
Maryland
$12K
District of Columbia
$6K
Alabama
$6K
Virginia
$5K
Washington
$5K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,250. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Hullar Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 2545 Sw Terwilliger Blvd 836, Portland, OR, 97201. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 20-3622315 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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