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Chip and Debi Hills Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL SERVICES FOUNDATION INC$20,000
MAYO CLINIC$20,000
THE ISABELLA SANTOS FOUNDATION$20,000
CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOL$15,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$15,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF METROLINA INC$15,000
REEMPRISE FUND$15,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHARLOTTE INC$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$10,000
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC$5,150
PROJECT 2 HEAL$5,000
CAROLINA BREAST FRIENDS INC$5,000
PROJECT PURPLE INC$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE INC: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
IN
CT
CA
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$908k · 17 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
12

Total granted

$908k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+54%

Still filing today

71%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyAnimalsEducationInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +24%
  • TI
    The Isabella Santos Foundation
    6× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +77%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • NH
    NOVANT HEALTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +63%
  • FC
    FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +54%
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -25%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
City of Hope

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

Health
2
Cancer Research and Biostatistics

To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.

Health
3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

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…

Health
5
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
6
Unc Health Foundation Inc

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.

Education
7
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

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…

Health
8
Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region

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.

Human Services
9
Thompson Cancer Survival Center

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…

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10
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

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.

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11
The Presbyterian Hospital

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…

Health
12
City of Hope National Medical Center

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; 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.
04the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/32
Grantees still filing
19/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $259,500 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANMAYO CLINIC: $220,000 · OtherMAYO CLINIC+11 more: $20,000 · OtherCLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationCLARKSON UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE L…CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS: $15,000 · EducationCHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLSPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $67,500 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER…The Isabella Santos Foundation: $49,500 · HealthThe Isabella Sant…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $17,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'…PROJECT PURPLE INC: $6,500 · Health+7 more: $18,500 · Health+7 morePRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL SERVICES FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyReemprise Fund: $15,000 · PhilanthropyJeff Gordon Childrens Foundation: $4,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $750 · PhilanthropyHumane Society of Charlotte Inc: $12,000 · AnimalsProject 2 Heal: $9,250 · AnimalsGREATER CHARLOTTE SPCA: $1,000 · AnimalsWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 · InternationalSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$499,500Education$280,000Health$159,000Philanthropy$39,750Animals$22,250International$15,000Food & Nutrition$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 FoundationFoundation for the Ca…Albemarle FoundationTrue Homes Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …United Way WorldwideSynchrony FoundationThe Bank of America C…United Way of Greater…Enterprise Holdings F…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chip and Debi Hills Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chip and Debi Hills Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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