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Helen Reber Hilton Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Helen Reber Hilton Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
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.

Education$835k
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,800
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY$5,000
MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY$5,000
KINGS COLLEGE$4,000
COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY BLOOMSBURG$3,800
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$3,800
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY$3,800
COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY$3,800
KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY$3,800
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$3,800
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$3,800
THADDEUS STEVENS COLLEGE$3,800
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY$3,800
LYCOMING COLLEGE$3,800
SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY$3,800
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY$3,800
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $4k → 10%WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY: $5k → 6%THADDEUS STEVENS COLLEGE: $4k → 9%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $4k → 11%LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $4k → 11%LYCOMING COLLEGE: $4k → 12%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 12%KEYSTONE COLLEGE: $4k → 13%COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY BLOOMSBURG: $4k → 14%MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $4k → 22%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $4k → 10%ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $4k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $4k → 11%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $4k → 22%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%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

MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
WV
MD
DE
AZ
NC
SC
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$498k · 63 repeat orgs$338k to everyone else

63 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
74

Total granted

$498k
$330k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+25%

Still filing today

25%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
EducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $17k · revenue +2%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    2× · 2024–2025 · $16k · revenue +4%
  • LV
    LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE
    5× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP
    one grant, 2017 · $90k
  • PS
    PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY - UNIV PK
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
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
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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4
Seton Hill University

Comprehensive institution of higher learning providing undergraduate and graduate student education.

Education
5
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
6
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
7
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
8
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
9
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
10
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
11
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
12
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Widener University; the most unlike its peers is Fairleigh Dickinson University. 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

29 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. 29 of the 139 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
24/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP: $90,000 · OtherCENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIPPENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $27,600 · Other+111 more: $531,400 · Other+111 moreTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $31,500 · EducationTemple University - Of T…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $15,800 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $15,200 · EducationLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGELEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $13,250 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $11,700 · EducationMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITYDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $9,500 · EducationELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $9,300 · EducationKING'S COLLEGE: $7,000 · EducationSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · EducationLYCOMING COLLEGE: $6,800 · Education+15 more: $51,450 · Education+15 moreKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$649,000Education$178,500Arts & Culture$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $31,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $17,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $15,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $15,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $13,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $11,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $9,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALVERNIA UNIVERSITY: $7,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKING'S COLLEGE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLYCOMING COLLEGE: $6,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDESALES UNIVERSITY: $5,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEYSTONE COLLEGE: $3,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIDENER UNIVERSITY: $2,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBucknell University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Haven: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $2,500 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.

  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KING'S COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LYCOMING COLLEGE ↗

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.

Verizon FoundationPpl FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Firstenergy FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…Charities Aid Foundat…Renaissance Charitabl…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…
Verizon FoundationNJ18.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · Ppl Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Firstenergy Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Helen Reber Hilton Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen Reber Hilton Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
  • University of New Haven: 1% of income from government
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 139 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home