Roy A. Hunt Foundation

OUR STORY Roy Arthur Hunt and his wife, Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, established The Hunt Foundation in 1951. Following the passing of Mr. Hunt in 1966, his will created the Roy A. Hunt Foundation. The Foundation first met in 1967. The two foundations merged in 1994, however the original mission of the Hunt Foundation endures – to support organizations that strive to improve the quality of life. The Foundation’s early grants went to schools that family members attended and to nonprofits for which they volunteered. From 1960 to 1993, about half of the giving went to the development and annual support of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University. As more family members became Trustees, the grantmaking diversified to new communities and organizations. OUR MISSION In the early 1900s, Roy A. Hunt worked his way up from mill clerk to president of Alcoa, the company his father helped found. After establishing The Hunt Foundation in 1951, he established the Roy A. Hunt Foundation in 1966 as an endowed resource so that future generations could be involved in charitable giving as a family. (The foundations merged in 1994). Two generations of Hunt family members now serve as Trustees, annually granting approximately $3.4 million in the United States and abroad. Since inception, our mission has been to support organizations that strive to improve the quality of life through proposals invited by the trustees and through the Foundation’s four main special initiatives. The Roy A. Hunt Foundation values the quality work of its partner organizations, strives to make an impact in many facets of the community – from building stronger networks for healthy, thriving neighborhoods to working toward a greener, cleaner environment – and believes in the importance of strong leadership, community-driven partnerships, and innovative ideas.