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Gilman and Lavon Hill Family Foundation at a glance

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Gilman and Lavon Hill Family 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.

$362k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$2.4MInternational$426kHuman Services$113kHousing & Shelter$78kHealth$69kYouth Development$51kPublic Safety & Disaster$43kCrime & Legal$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
$10,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$762k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILY FOUNDATIONS INTERNATIONAL$90,000
LAUGH OUT LOUD MINISTRIES$18,000
FAITH COMES BY HEARING$17,500
CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES$15,000
HANDS OF MERCY INTERNATIONAL$15,000
OPEN DOOR MINISTRIES DENVER$15,000
ARUNA PROJECT$15,000
SKYWATCH TV$12,500
SERVANTS OF CHRIST INTERNATIONAL$11,500
MERCY SHIPS$10,000
ALLEGRO MINISTRIES$10,000
SAVE THE STORKS$10,000
ALL THINGS POSSIBLE$10,000
JESUS FILM PROJECT$10,000
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION$10,000
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 (FY18–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%ZOE'S HOUSE ADOPTION AGENCY: $10k → 5%SKYWATCH TV: $13k → 13%ZOE'S HOUSE ADOPTION AGENCY: $3k → 5%SKYWATCH TV: $8k → 13%ZOE'S HOUSE ADOPTION AGENCY: $3k → 5%SKYWATCH TV: $7k → 13%SKYWATCH TV: $5k → 13%NEVER ALONE FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%SKYWATCH TV: $5k → 13%SKYWATCH TV: $3k → 13%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $10k → 7%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $10k → 7%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $5k → 7%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $5k → 7%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
OR
NV
OH
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 44 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
25

Total granted

$3.1M
$153k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
0%

Still filing today

55%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
ReligionInternationalHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • FF
    FAMILY FOUNDATION INTL
    8× · 2018–2025 · $877k · revenue +34%
  • CF
    CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $214k · revenue +35%
  • Mercy Ships International
    8× · 2018–2025 · $79k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • TK
    TTO KAMSA MISSION CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • LI
    LIVING IN THE FAITH
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
  • SI
    Servants International Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue +1%
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
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
2
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
3
Gods Promise Ministries International

Religious Purposes

Housing & Shelter
4
Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
5
Israel Restoration Ministries
Religion
6
Destiny Ministries International Inc

Provide oversight spititual support, evangelize the word help the poor and needy including aid in the translation of the nible

Religion
7
Women Intercessors for the Church and Nations

To reach the world with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ through Prayer and Intercession, Evangelism, Seminars, Mercy Missions, Leadership Training, Publications and Conferences and Outreaches.

Religion
8
GlobalServant Ministries Inc

Offers counsel, formal & informal teaching served in a pastoral role, mentored groups,filled numerous speaking invitations, conducted discipling groups & provided spiritual, emotional and

Religion
9
Discover Your Mission Inc

Supporing missionaries worldwide

Religion
10
Faithbytheword Incorporated

As Christs followers, we have the Holy Spirit residing within us, which means we have His power to fulfill this command. We cant save anyone, but its our responsibility to tell people about the God who can. How will they believe unless…

Human Services
11
A2 Ministries International Ltd
Religion
12
Fsi-Freedom Seekers International

Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Multiplied America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Morning Star Development. 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

42 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. 42 of the 74 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/42
Grantees still filing
26/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAITH COMES BY HEARING: $270,500 · OtherFAITH COMES BY HEARINGLAUGH OUT LOUD MINISTRIES: $239,000 · OtherLAUGH OUT LOUD MINISTRIESCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC: $107,500 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INCOPEN DOOR MINISTRIES DENVER: $106,500 · OtherOPEN DOOR MINISTRIES DENVERMESSIANIC VISION INC: $101,500 · OtherMESSIANIC VISION INCTHE A21 CAMPAIGN INC: $51,000 · OtherServants of Christ International: $48,050 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $47,500 · Other+35 more: $425,300 · Other+35 moreFAMILY FOUNDATION INTL: $876,500 · ReligionFAMILY FOUNDATION INTLCROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INC: $213,500 · ReligionCROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INCBE THE GIFT INCORPORATED: $62,000 · Religion+11 more: $137,230 · Religion+11 moreHands of Mercy International: $141,000 · InternationalHands of M…Mercy Ships International: $78,500 · InternationalMercy Ship…INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $45,500 · InternationalINTERNATIO…ARUNA PROJECT: $20,000 · InternationalARUNA PROJ…HANDS OF MERCY MINISTRIES: $11,000 · International+3 more: $17,000 · International+3 moreFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $65,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOORS INC: $43,500 · Human ServicesSKYWATCH TV CORPORATION: $40,500 · Human ServicesZOE'S HOUSE ADOPTION AGENCY INC: $15,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesSave the Storks: $58,500 · HealthSAMARITAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · HealthSHIELD 616 INC: $27,900 · Crime & LegalTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,396,850Religion$1,289,230International$313,000Human Services$169,000Health$63,500Crime & Legal$27,900Philanthropy$15,000

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 budgetFAMILY FOUNDATION INTL: $876,500 over 8y, 22% of budgetCROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INC: $213,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetHands of Mercy International: $141,000 over 8y, 50% of budgetMercy Ships International: $78,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $65,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBE THE GIFT INCORPORATED: $62,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetSave the Storks: $58,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE A21 CAMPAIGN INC: $51,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetServants of Christ International: $48,050 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $45,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN DOORS INC: $43,500 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetSKYWATCH TV CORPORATION: $40,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetEAGLES WINGS INTERNATIONAL INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSHIELD 616 INC: $27,900 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFrancis Myles International: $22,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetARUNA PROJECT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMERCY MULTIPLIED AMERICA INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetZOE'S HOUSE ADOPTION AGENCY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSTRATEGIC RESOURCE GROUP INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChrist In Action Ministries Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHANDS OF MERCY MINISTRIES: $11,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetServants International Inc: $10,730 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLOVE A CHILD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST FRUITS OF ZION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAgape Flights Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSEA INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSAMARITAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEVER ALONE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetSANCTUARY CLINICS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMANNA RELIEF MINISTRIES: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANSWERS IN GENESIS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMorning Star Development: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds FAMILY FOUNDATION INTL ↗
  • Who funds CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Hands of Mercy International ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds BE THE GIFT INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Save the Storks ↗
  • Who funds THE A21 CAMPAIGN INC ↗
  • Who funds Servants of Christ International ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOORS INC ↗
  • Who funds SKYWATCH TV CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds EAGLES WINGS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SHIELD 616 INC ↗
  • Who funds Francis Myles International ↗
  • Who funds ARUNA PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds GOD BEHIND BARS INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY MULTIPLIED AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ZOE'S HOUSE ADOPTION AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds STRATEGIC RESOURCE GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds Christ In Action Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Christian Community F…Servant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…The Signatry Charitab…Community Foundation …Chattanooga Christian…Greater HorizonsColorado Gives Founda…Thrivent Charitable I…American Endowment Fo…The Chicago Community…Texas Instruments Fou…
Christian Community Foundation IncCO23.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of Acadiana · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Greater Horizons · Colorado Gives Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · American Endowment Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Texas Instruments Foundation

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 Gilman and Lavon Hill Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gilman and Lavon Hill Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Love a Child Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Gilman and Lavon Hill Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 74 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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