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HHL Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2022
29
Grants FY2022
9
States reached
$21k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of HHL Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Austin Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year HHL Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 21 organizations, $50k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

31
’17
31
’18
31
’19
28
’20
25
’21
21
’22
19
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2024.

Philanthropy$200kArts & Culture$115kHealth$17kHuman Services$15kCivil Rights$8kHousing & Shelter$7kInternational$7kFood & Nutrition$6kOther$0
02FY2022 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k27 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
$211
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$20,500
Ojai Playwrights Conference$20,000
LBJ Foundation$2,500
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center$1,000
United Way of San Antonio$1,000
Rogers Park Montessori School$259
Sarah's Circle$258
Housing Opportunities for Women$258
Mother's Milk Bank$250
Kids In Need Of Defence$250
Whole Womans Advocacy Alliance$250
Deborahs Place$250
Age of Central Texas$250
Greater Chicago Food Depository$250
Family Eldercare$211
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Voices From The Border: $100 → 19%Safe Alliance: $1k → 10%Blessings In A Backpack: $500 → 15%Safe Alliance: $500 → 10%Blessings In A Backpack: $200 → 15%Age of Central Texas: $250 → 10%Safe Alliance: $500 → 10%Blessings in a Backpack: $200 → 15%Age of Central Texas: $250 → 10%Safe Alliance: $205 → 10%Age of Central Texas: $200 → 10%Safe Alliance: $200 → 10%Age of Central Texas: $200 → 10%Age of Central Texas: $100 → 10%Age of Central Texas: $100 → 10%Family Eldercare: $211 → 10%Family Eldercare: $211 → 10%Family Eldercare: $200 → 10%Cradles to Crayons: $100 → 14%Cradles to Crayons: $100 → 14%Family Eldercare: $200 → 10%Cradles to Crayons: $100 → 14%Cradles to Crayons: $100 → 14%Family Eldercare: $100 → 10%Family Eldercare: $100 → 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

IL
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
TX
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$153k · 54 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2022, 31 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
28

Total granted

$153k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+6%

Still filing today

74%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • OP
    OJAI PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $82k · revenue +56%
  • GP
    GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +18%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $4k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • Mercy Ships International
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +18%
  • BS
    Barton Springs Conservancy
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -40%
  • ES
    ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +201%
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
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

—
4
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
5
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights
6
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

—
7
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
8
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
9
Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights
10
The American Theatre Guild

The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.

Arts & Culture
11
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
12
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom Center Texas; the most unlike its peers is Climate First Replacing Oil & Gas. 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

69 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. 69 of the 97 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/69
Grantees still filing
48/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $197,079 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC+5 more: $3,100 · PhilanthropyOJAI PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE: $81,710 · Arts & CultureOJAI PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENC…GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $4,832 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $4,429 · Arts & CultureIndividual grant recipient: $20,500 · OtherIndividual grant recip…Planned Parenthood: $4,000 · OtherPlanned Parenthood of Texas: $3,000 · Other+57 more: $50,343 · Other+57 moreSafe Alliance Inc: $2,405 · Human ServicesHELP OF OJAI INC: $1,250 · Human ServicesAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $1,100 · Human ServicesFAMILY ELDERCARE INC: $1,022 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $900 · Human ServicesFREEDOM CENTER TEXAS: $500 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $400 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $1,973 · Civil RightsJANE'S DUE PROCESS INC: $500 · Civil RightsHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC: $2,358 · Housing & ShelterDEBORAH'S PLACE: $1,400 · Housing & ShelterSARAH'S CIRCLE: $1,058 · Housing & ShelterNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,206 · EnvironmentThe Trail Conservancy: $1,000 · EnvironmentWILDFLOWER DONOR INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $500 · EnvironmentCLIMATE FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS: $250 · EnvironmentTHE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY: $250 · Environment+1 more: $100 · Environment
Philanthropy$200,179Arts & Culture$90,971Other$77,843Human Services$8,677Civil Rights$6,473Housing & Shelter$4,816Environment$4,306

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 budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $197,079 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOJAI PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE: $81,710 over 7y, 11% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $4,832 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHealth Alliance for Austin Musicians: $2,450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $2,406 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Alliance Inc: $2,405 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC: $2,358 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $1,973 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWHOLE WOMAN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REFUGE FOR DMST: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Book Festival: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $1,467 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDEBORAH'S PLACE: $1,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHELP OF OJAI INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC: $1,211 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS DIAPER BANK: $1,206 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,206 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY: $1,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE: $1,058 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY ELDERCARE INC: $1,022 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $1,010 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROGERS PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $1,009 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBarton Springs Conservancy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trail Conservancy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONTESSORI NETWORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Chicagos Neighborhood Theaters: $800 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetFREEDOM CENTER TEXAS: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJANE'S DUE PROCESS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRandom Acts of Flowers: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOJAI VALLEY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FDN: $400 over 2y, 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 AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OJAI PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE ↗
  • Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds Health Alliance for Austin Musicians ↗
  • Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds Safe Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds WHOLE WOMAN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE REFUGE FOR DMST ↗
  • Who funds Texas Book Festival ↗
  • Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds HELP OF OJAI INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS DIAPER BANK ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN GROUPS FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
  • Who funds SARAH'S CIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY ELDERCARE INC ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds ROGERS PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds Barton Springs Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND 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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX23.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · St David's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · One Skye Foundation Inc · Ecg Foundation · David & Sylvia Weisz Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Better Business Bureau · United Way Worldwide · Scott & White Hospital Round Rock · The Bill M and Cecile Autrey Ham Charitable 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 HHL Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from HHL Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to HHL Foundation?

Find your warmest path to HHL 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 97 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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