· Private foundation
Hildur M Michel Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINSTONSALEM INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND IN | $8,500 |
| VINE SCHOOL | $3,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CFCOMPUTERS FOR THE BLIND5× · 2019–2024 · $27k · revenue +24%
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $17k · revenue +88%- EDENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue -57%
Funded once
- HFHealth for All Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +20%
- BTBE THE LIGHTone grant, 2023 · $4k
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
to prevent blindness and preserve sight through education, certified vision screening and training, advocacy, research and community and patient service programs
Provide innovative training and tools for people who are blind or visually impaired to help them achieve their goals and dreams
The Blind Foundation for India(BFI)Charter is to prevent and cure blindness and rehabilitate permanently blind people in India. BFI provides support for free cataract operations, Braille kits, Mobile Vans, Eye Hospital equipments, and…
To provide employment and training opportunities to sight-impaired individuals.
Conexus achieves its mission of eliminating poor vision as a barrier to success by identifying children with poor vision through comprehensive vision screenings and connecting those to be found with poor vision to appropriate eye care.
Giving braille and large print books , and als eyetraking training and products screen reader training and hebrew braille training
The Lighthouse of Houston provides services that identify and develop the individual strengths and needs of each person with visual disabilities so they may reach their full potential, becoming independent members of society.
BLIND, Inc. was founded by blind Minnesotans who believe that, given the proper training and opportunity, blind people can lead normal, independent, and fulfilled lives. We believe that blindness is respectable and that with proper…
The mission of the lighthouse for the blind of fort worth is to encourage and empower blind and significantly visually impaired children, youth, adults and seniors to achieve their highest level of independence through competitive…
To create and grow employment opportunities for people who are blind or visually impaired.
To provide employment and education for the adult legally blind and help them to live independently.
Knowbility, Inc. is a national nonprofit whose mission is to create an inclusive digital world for people with disabilities. We help make the internet and other technologies accessible to people who are blind, visually impaired, have…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Envision Dallas Lighthouse Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Be the Light. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMPUTERS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Winston Salem Industries for the Blind Inc ↗
- Who funds Health for All Inc ↗
- Who funds BE THE LIGHT ↗
- Who funds THE VINE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF TEXAS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Hildur M Michel Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.