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Edward & Helene Hills Foundation at a glance

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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
States reached
$750
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 2020.

Religion$16kEducation$15kArts & Culture$3kHealth$2kHuman Services$2kEnvironment$1kInternational$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0
02FY2020 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$750
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST SIMON CHURCH$750
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 (FY17–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $500 → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%FORUM HEALTH FUND: $100 → 8%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS: $100 → 7%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $100 → 8%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40k · 14 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2020, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
16

Total granted

$40k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+105%

Still filing today

36%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsEducationEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • LU
    LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +69%
  • PO
    PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST
    2× · 2017–2019 · $700 · revenue +164%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF DEER HOLLOW FARM
    2× · 2017–2019 · $450 · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +9%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +197%
  • HI
    HIAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +114%
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
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
2
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
Sempervirens Fund

To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…

Environment
4
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
5
Friends of Oakland Animal Services

Our mission is to provide homes, health, and happiness to oakland's animals in need. our primary focus has been to fund programs and activities at oakland animal services to greatly increase lifesaving of shelter animals.

Animals
6
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
7
Union Station Homeless Services

We work to end homelessness through housing solutions, supportive services, and connection to community. we advocate for equitable and just systems that ensure all individuals and families will have a safe place they can call home.

Human Services
8
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
9
Kitsap Humane Society

Providing positive life changing solutions to people and animals in need.

Animals
10
Sweet Dreams Senior Pet Sanctuary

The mission of sweet dreams senior pet sanctuary is to support elderly individuals who can no longer care for their senior pets by providing a safe and loving home for their cherished companions. the sanctuary offers two primary programs…

Animals
11
Sutter Valley Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
12
Bay Area Barns and Trails
Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifemoves; the most unlike its peers is Okmulgee County Humane Society. 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

19 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. 19 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
17/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST SIMON CHURCH: $12,870 · OtherST SIMON CHURCHPATHWAYS HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · OtherPATHWAYS HOSPICE FOUNDATIONKAINOS: $2,000 · OtherKAINOSHOLY FAMILY: $2,000 · OtherHOLY FAMILY+12 more: $3,150 · Other+12 moreLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $15,030 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYThe Schola Cantorum: $2,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INC: $600 · Arts & CultureTHE SAN FRANCISCO AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY: $100 · Arts & CultureAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $500 · Human ServicesFORUM CHARITABLE FUND FKA FORUM HEALTH FUND: $100 · Human ServicesPENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC: $100 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC: $100 · Human ServicesPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $700 · EnvironmentHIAS INC: $500 · InternationalPENINSULA HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA: $50 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY: $50 · AnimalsFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $50 · Youth Development
Other$22,020Education$15,030Arts & Culture$2,700Human Services$1,800Environment$700International$500Animals$100Youth Development$50

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

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
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.

Silicon Valley Commun…AbbVie FoundationThe Intuit FoundationGordon E and Betty I …The David and Lucile …Texas Instruments Fou…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 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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