Hunt Family Foundation

About Hunt Family Foundation

The Hunt Family Foundation’s recent giving is anchored by multiyear commitments to Texas universities, including a $3.2 million installment to The University of Texas at El Paso and a $2.25 million installment to Texas Tech Foundation Inc. Those grants sit inside larger campaign pledges, showing a preference for structured support that helps institutions move major projects forward over time. The foundation also backs campus facilities and academic programs tied to regional access, research capacity, and student support. Higher education is the clearest thread in the portfolio, but the foundation’s reach extends into related institutions that serve the Borderplex. It has funded El Paso’s children’s museum, a regional economic and policy research effort at UTEP, and scholarship support through university foundations in Texas and New Mexico. The pattern points to philanthropy centered on institutions that shape the region’s educational pipeline and civic infrastructure. Several grants also connect directly to El Paso and West Texas. The foundation has supported UTEP stadium and Sun Bowl renovations, the Paso Del Norte Community Foundation, and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center dental school in El Paso. Across these awards, the emphasis is on place-based institutional support rather than broad, open-ended grantmaking.

What Hunt Family Foundation Funds

Higher education capacity is the foundation’s strongest theme. In 2025, it gave $500,000 to New Mexico State University Foundation Inc for the Arrowhead Center’s economic developments efforts, and in 2023 it gave $175,000 to The University of Texas at El Paso for development of a regional economic and policy research institute. Both grants connect university infrastructure to regional planning and analysis. Student support appears in several awards. The foundation gave $250,000 to the University of Texas at Austin for scholarships to students from the Borderplex region and another $250,000 to Sw Foundation for Osteopathic Education and Research for student scholarships. It also backed the Texas Tech Foundation Inc with $1.75 million for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center dental school in El Paso. Cultural and community institutions are part of the mix as well. The Epc Museum received $275,000 in 2023 to support the El Paso Children’s Museum, and later $500,000 in 2025 on a multiyear commitment.

How Hunt Family Foundation Gives