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Edward & Helene Hills Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$750
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
1
Organizations funded FY2020
0%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$750
Largest grant, FY2020
$750
Organizations funded a year
1 to 20
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 0% of the organizations Edward & Helene Hills Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Human ServicesAnimalsInternationalArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY20201$7500%
FY201916$13k25%
FY201814$14k43%
FY201720$16kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Religion$16kEducation$15kArts & Culture$3kHealth$2kHuman Services$2kEnvironment$1kInternational$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 20 grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($19k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Edward & Helene Hills Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLehigh University: $15,030 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Schola Cantorum: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeninsula Open Space Trust: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House California: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe San Francisco Aeronautical Society: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPacific Crest Trail Association: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForum Charitable Fund Fka Forum Health Fund: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLifemoves: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeninsula Volunteers Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Services Agency of Mountain View Los Altos and Los Altos Hills Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVilla Siena: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOkmulgee County Humane Society: $50 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPeninsula Humane Society & Spca: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriendship Circle: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society Silicon Valley: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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 18.

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA18.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Edward & Helene Hills Foundation

How much does Edward & Helene Hills Foundation give?
Edward & Helene Hills Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $750 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Edward & Helene Hills Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Religion (37%), Education (35%), Arts & Culture (7%).
Who are Edward & Helene Hills Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Lehigh University ($15k), The Schola Cantorum ($2k), Holy Family ($2k).
Does Edward & Helene Hills Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Edward & Helene 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 Edward & Helene Hills Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, AbbVie Foundation, The Intuit Foundation.
Where is Edward & Helene Hills Foundation based?
Edward & Helene Hills Foundation is based in CA.

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 30 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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