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Hill Crest Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
91
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$8.7MEducation$4.3MHuman Services$4.3MArts & Culture$1.3MRecreation & Sports$846kReligion$808kFood & Nutrition$688kYouth Development$590kOther$0
02FY2025 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $948k
  • $50k–250k27 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$73M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG OAK RANCH$300,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$200,000
CHILDRENS OF ALABAMA$150,000
AUBURN UNIVERSITY$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM DEPT OF PSYCHIATRY$100,000
OASIS COUNSELING FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL OF NURSING$60,000
GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES$60,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE$50,000
RED BARN$50,000
CHILDRENS HARBOR$50,000
GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CLINIC OF CULLMAN INC$50,000
FOUNDATIONS EARLY LEARNING CENTER$50,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALABAMA$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF WEST AL: $25k → 17%M-POWER MINISTRIES INC: $70k → 16%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF WEST AL: $20k → 17%BIG OAK RANCH: $400k → 18%BIG OAK RANCH: $300k → 18%BIG OAK RANCH: $300k → 18%CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION: $30k → 16%CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION: $30k → 16%KING'S HOME: $25k → 7%M-POWER MINISTRIES INC: $25k → 16%KING'S HOME: $25k → 7%M-POWER MINISTRIES INC: $25k → 16%KING'S HOME: $25k → 7%M-POWER MINISTRIES INC: $25k → 16%M-POWER MINISTRIES INC: $25k → 16%M-POWER MINISTRIES INC: $25k → 16%THE LOVELADY CENTER: $50k → 16%THE LOVELADY CENTER: $50k → 16%THE LOVELADY CENTER: $50k → 16%RENEW BIRMINGHAM: $100k → 16%FOUNDRY MINISTRIES: $25k → 16%GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY: $25k → 16%COLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 16%METHODIST HOME FOR THE AGING: $50k → 16%M-POWER MINISTRIES: $50k → 16%M-POWER MINISTRIES: $50k → 16%METHODIST HOME FOR THE AGING: $50k → 16%PASTORAL COUNSELING AND TRAINING CENTER INC: $55k → 16%PASTORAL COUNSELING AND TRAINING CENTER INC: $50k → 16%PASTORAL COUNSELING AND TRAINING CENTER INC: $50k → 16%PASTORAL COUNSELING AND TRAINING CENTER INC: $50k → 16%PASTORAL COUNSELING AND TRAINING CENTER INC: $50k → 16%PASTORAL COUNSELING AND TRAINING CENTER INC: $50k → 16%PASTORAL COUNSELING AND TRAINING CENTER INC: $50k → 16%CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY OF ALABAMA: $40k → 16%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $30k → 16%FOUNDRY MINISTRIES: $100k → 16%RENEW BIRMINGHAM: $50k → 16%FOUNDRY MINISTRIES: $50k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $40k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $40k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $40k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $40k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $35k → 16%CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $35k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $60k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $60k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$23M · 177 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

177 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2025, 105 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

177
72

Total granted

$23M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+4%

Still filing today

71%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $395k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • BO
    BIG OAK RANCH INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +1%
  • TE
    THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $800k · revenue +33%
  • OC
    Oasis Counseling for Women and Children
    9× · 2017–2025 · $675k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • UC
    UNITED CELEBRAL PALSY OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMNGHAM WOMENS AND INFANTS CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
  • UO
    UCP OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM
    one grant, 2018 · $75k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
2
Legal Aid Society of Birmingham

The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.

Crime & Legal
3
Aids Alabama Inc

Aids alabama devotes its energy and resources statewide to helping people with hiv/aids live healthy, independent lives and works to prevent the spread of hiv.

Health
4
Nami Alabama Inc

Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.

Health
5
Alabama Regional Medical Services

To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers

Health
6
Voices for Alabama's Children

Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.

Arts & Culture
7
Greater Birmingham Ministries

To serve people, build community, pursue justice.

—
8
Wings Across Alabama

To educate, empower, and improve services for mental health consumers in the state of alabama.

Education
9
Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit
10
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Birmingham Inc

Match adult volunteers with at-risk children. To promote a friendship which will build confidence and self-esteem in order to promote improved decision-making and reduce problems into adulthood.

—
11
Goodwill Industries of Central Alabama

Goodwill industries provides training and employment for handicapped persons.

Employment
12
Alabama Rivers Alliance Inc

Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama's water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alabama and the most unlike its peers is Youth Inaging. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%2%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr12%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr16%40%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr12%20%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/184
the rest of the field
15%
793/5,190

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

177 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. 177 of the 268 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
49
Early backer (in before they grew)
173/177
Grantees still filing
122/177
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AUBURN UNIVERSITY — $990,000 · OtherAUBURN UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA — $550,000 · OtherUAB DEPRESSION AND SUICIDE CENTER — $500,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL OF NURSING — $410,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $400,000 · Other+113 more — $8,717,690 · Other+113 moreOasis Counseling for Women and Children — $675,000 · HealthOasis Counseling for Wom…The Children's Hospital of Alabama — $550,000 · HealthThe Children's Hospital …UNITED ABILITY INC — $450,000 · HealthUNITED ABILITY INCTHE RED BARN — $350,000 · HealthTHE RED BARNCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC — $315,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HARBOR INCLAKESHORE FOUNDATION — $260,000 · HealthTRINITY COUNSELING INC — $225,000 · HealthSMILE-A-MILE — $198,800 · HealthTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS — $190,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $185,000 · HealthSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC — $170,000 · Health+20 more — $1,500,050 · Health+20 moreBIG OAK RANCH INC — $1,000,000 · Human ServicesBIG OAK RANCH INCPASTORAL COUNSELING AND TRAINING CENTER INC — $370,000 · Human ServicesPASTORAL COUNSELI…THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC — $300,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDRY MINIS…M-POWER Ministries — $295,000 · Human ServicesM-POWER Ministrie…THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC — $230,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR EX…GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $180,000 · Human ServicesKings Home Inc — $175,000 · Human ServicesRENEW BIRMINGHAM — $150,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM RAIN INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesCOLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BIRMINGHAM — $130,000 · Human Services+14 more — $764,500 · Human Services+14 moreTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION — $800,000 · Recreation & SportsRAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION — $130,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE SMARTPLAY — $60,000 · Recreation & SportsVULCAN PARK FOUNDATION — $55,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY — $355,000 · EducationUrology Health Foundation — $130,000 · EducationSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM — $125,000 · EducationPRESCHOOL PARTNERS — $120,000 · EducationTHE ALTAMONT SCHOOL — $76,000 · EducationCREATIVE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $50,000 · EducationJUDSON COLLEGE — $40,000 · EducationBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Education+4 more — $107,000 · EducationALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $225,000 · Arts & CultureMCWANE SCIENCE CENTER — $200,000 · Arts & CultureBIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC — $165,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FULL LIFE AHEAD FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureRED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureSTUDIO BY THE TRACKS INC — $52,000 · Arts & CultureREV BIRMINGHAM INC — $35,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $23,000 · Arts & CultureBirmingham Zoo Inc — $300,000 · AnimalsHAND IN PAW INC — $150,000 · Animals
Other$11,567,690Health$5,068,850Human Services$3,744,500Recreation & Sports$1,045,000Education$1,043,000Arts & Culture$975,000Animals$450,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBIG OAK RANCH INC — $1,000,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION — $800,000 over 8y, 9.2% of budgetOasis Counseling for Women and Children — $675,000 over 9y, 7.9% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama — $550,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED ABILITY INC — $450,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $400,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPASTORAL COUNSELING AND TRAINING CENTER INC — $370,000 over 8y, 48% of budgetTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY — $355,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetTHE RED BARN — $350,000 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetST VINCENT'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA INC — $341,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC — $315,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetTHE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC — $300,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBirmingham Zoo Inc — $300,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC — $300,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetM-POWER Ministries — $295,000 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetLAKESHORE FOUNDATION — $260,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALABAMA INC — $230,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC — $230,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTRINITY COUNSELING INC — $225,000 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $225,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetMCWANE SCIENCE CENTER — $200,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSMILE-A-MILE — $198,800 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS — $190,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $185,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $180,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetYOUTHSERVE INC — $175,000 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetKings Home Inc — $175,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC — $170,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetBIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC — $165,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetAlabama Kidney Foundation Inc — $160,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetBETTER BASICS INC — $150,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetRED MOUNTAIN PARK FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetRENEW BIRMINGHAM — $150,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetFREEDOM RAIN INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFREEDOM SOURCE INC — $150,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetHAND IN PAW INC — $150,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetCOLLAT JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BIRMINGHAM — $130,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetRAILROAD PARK FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetUrology Health Foundation — $130,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM — $125,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetGREATER BIRMINGHAM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $125,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Prescott House — $125,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetMAGIC MOMENTS — $121,500 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetCAHABA VALLEY HEALTH CARE INC — $120,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetPRESCHOOL PARTNERS — $120,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER — $110,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetBREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA — $110,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $105,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budget
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 BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Oasis Counseling for Women and Children ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
  • Who funds UNITED ABILITY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds PASTORAL COUNSELING AND TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE RED BARN ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds M-POWER Ministries ↗
  • Who funds LAKESHORE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY COUNSELING INC ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SMILE-A-MILE ↗
  • Who funds THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHSERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Kings Home Inc ↗
  • Who funds SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Daniel Foundation…The Community Foundat…Protective Life Found…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Alabama Power Foundat…Robert R Meyer Founda…Mike and Gillian Good…Orlean & Ralph W Bees…Altecstyslinger Found…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…Dunn-French FoundationThe Maynard Nexsen Fo…
The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL208.9× affinity121 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Protective Life Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen 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 Hill Crest Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your 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
    52report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hill Crest Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Hill Crest Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 268 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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