· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYO CLINIC | $20,000 |
| THE ISABELLA SANTOS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL SERVICES FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| REEMPRISE FUND | $15,000 |
| CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $15,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF METROLINA INC | $15,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHARLOTTE INC | $10,000 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC | $5,150 |
| CAROLINA BREAST FRIENDS INC | $5,000 |
| PROJECT PURPLE INC | $5,000 |
| PROJECT 2 HEAL | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +24%- TIThe Isabella Santos Foundation6× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +77%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC7× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- NHNOVANT HEALTH INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +63%
- FCFOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +90%
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -25%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.
Thompson Cancer Survival Center provides support services for cancer patients, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…
City of Hope National Medical Center's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Project 2 Heal. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds The Isabella Santos Foundation ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL SERVICES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Reemprise Fund ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds Project 2 Heal ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PURPLE INC ↗
- Who funds NOVANT HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Carolina Breast Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Council for Childrens Rights Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Project HALO Corporation ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHARLOTTE SPCA ↗
- Who funds MECKLENBURG COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Promising Pages Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Hope Cancer Ministries ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Chip and Debi Hills Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.