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Chip and Debi Hills 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.

$160k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$2.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Chip and Debi Hills Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsPhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$160k46%
FY20242$15k0%
FY20235$123k40%
FY20226$125k33%
FY20215$9k60%
FY202015$145k33%
FY20199$145k22%
FY201813$23k46%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$666kEducation$282kAnimals$23kFood & Nutrition$17kPhilanthropy$16kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kEnvironment$5kInternational$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Regents of the University of Michigan$259,5003n/a
Clarkson University$250,00020%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$67,50090%
The Isabella Santos Foundation$49,50060%
Presbyterian Medical Services Foundation Inc$20,00018%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$17,00070%
World Central Kitchen Inc$15,0001n/a
Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc$15,00010%
Reemprise Fund$15,000119%
Charlotte Latin Schools$15,00010%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($224k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chip and Debi Hills Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClarkson University: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc: $67,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Isabella Santos Foundation: $49,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPresbyterian Medical Services Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReemprise Fund: $15,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCharlotte Latin Schools: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Charlotte Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject 2 Heal: $9,250 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetProject Purple Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNovant Health Inc: $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarolina Breast Friends Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFoothills Conservancy of North Carolina Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJeff Gordon Childrens Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCouncil for Childrens Rights Inc: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of America: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShare Our Strength: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject HALO Corporation: $1,500 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Charlotte Spca: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLungevity Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMecklenburg County Humane Society: $1,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetEskenazi Health Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPromising Pages Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way of Northern California: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope Cancer Ministries: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC23.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Albemarle Foundation · True Homes Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · United Way Worldwide · Synchrony Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Chip and Debi Hills Foundation

How much does Chip and Debi Hills Foundation give?
Chip and Debi Hills Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $160,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Chip and Debi Hills Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (65%), Education (27%), Animals (2%).
Who are Chip and Debi Hills Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Regents of the University of Michigan ($260k), Clarkson University ($250k), Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc ($68k).
Does Chip and Debi Hills Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Chip and Debi Hills Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Chip and Debi Hills Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, Foundation for the Carolinas, Albemarle Foundation.
Where is Chip and Debi Hills Foundation based?
Chip and Debi Hills Foundation is based in NC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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