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Hildur M Michel Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$9k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$52kEducation$17kEmployment$9kReligion$4k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$8,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$265k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WINSTONSALEM INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND IN$8,500
VINE SCHOOL$3,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%BE THE LIGHT: $4k → 7%ENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $5k → 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.
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$54k · 3 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$54k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEmploymentEducationOther
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

  • CF
    COMPUTERS FOR THE BLIND
    5× · 2019–2024 · $27k · revenue +24%
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $17k · revenue +88%
  • ED
    ENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue -57%

Funded once

  • HF
    Health for All Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +20%
  • BT
    BE THE LIGHT
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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
Prevent Blindness Texas

to prevent blindness and preserve sight through education, certified vision screening and training, advocacy, research and community and patient service programs

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2
Visability

Provide innovative training and tools for people who are blind or visually impaired to help them achieve their goals and dreams

Human Services
3
Blind Foundation for India

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…

International
4
South Texas Lighthouse for the Blind

To provide employment and training opportunities to sight-impaired individuals.

Health
5
Conexus

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.

Health
6
Computer Services for the Blind Inc

Giving braille and large print books , and als eyetraking training and products screen reader training and hebrew braille training

Human Services
7
Lighthouse for the Blind of Houston Inc

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.

Health
8
Blindness-Learning in New Dimensions Inc

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…

Health
9
Tarrant County Association for the Blind

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…

Human Services
10
Industries for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc

To create and grow employment opportunities for people who are blind or visually impaired.

Employment
11
Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind Inc

To provide employment and education for the adult legally blind and help them to live independently.

—
12
Knowbility Inc

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Envision Dallas Lighthouse Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 9 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMPUTERS FOR THE BLIND: $27,000 · OtherCOMPUTERS FOR THE BLINDTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $3,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesENVISION DALLAS LIG…BE THE LIGHT: $4,000 · Human ServicesBE THE LIGHTWinston Salem Industries for the Blind Inc: $8,500 · EmploymentWinston Sal…Health for All Inc: $5,000 · HealthHealth for …NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF TEXAS INC: $3,000 · HealthNATIONAL FE…THE VINE SCHOOL: $3,500 · Education
Other$47,000Human Services$14,000Employment$8,500Health$8,000Education$3,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMPUTERS FOR THE BLIND: $27,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWinston Salem Industries for the Blind Inc: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHealth for All Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Hildur M Michel Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hildur M Michel Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    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 9 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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