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Hill Family Charitable Foundation
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 FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $39k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLDEN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $18,500 |
| PRINCE OF PEACE PARISH | $10,000 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF WORCESTER | $10,000 |
| FIRST CONG CHURCH OF HOLDEN | $8,000 |
| TEMPO | $5,000 |
| GREATER WORCESTER OPERA | $3,000 |
| MCAULEY NAZARETH | $3,000 |
| WORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $2,000 |
| ANIMAL SHELTER OF STERLING | $1,500 |
| VISITATION HOUSE | $1,000 |
| FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN WITH | $1,000 |
| WORCESTER CHILDREN'S CHORUS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 8 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- MNMCAULEY NAZARETH INC2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +3%
- WAWORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +2%
- ASANIMAL SHELTER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- CCCROSSROADS CONTINUUM INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +9%
- WUWESLEYAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +53%
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +14%
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.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
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…
To provide an excellent liberal arts education for women who will make a difference in the world.
Worcester academy exists to instill in its students the desire to learn throughout life, to engage passionately with the world around them, and to be honorable persons of strong and resourceful character.
The waldorf school of lexington nurtures each child's curiosity, ingenuity, and love of learning so that they can meet the future with wonder, confidence, and resilience.
To connect people, communities, and cultures through experience of art. collect the most significant works of art available in an effort to shape the quality/scope of the permanent collection while adhering to the institution's…
Performing high quality choral music for the enjoyment and education of both the performers and listeners.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
To operate as a noncommercial educational fm broadcast public radio station for purposes of providing a cultural, educational, literary, scientific, artistic and musical outlet for the area community.
To promote humane treatment of animals, operate the animal shelter, and assist with the adoption of animals.
To provide concerts of classical music for the general public as well as educational concerts for students of all grades in the greater worcester area elementary schools, high schools and colleges. to provide for the encouragement of music…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the most unlike its peers is Wesleyan University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 20 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 TEMPO INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CONTINUUM INC ↗
- Who funds MCAULEY NAZARETH INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Worcester OperaInc ↗
- Who funds THE SAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds VISITATION HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN WSPECIAL NEEDS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Hill Family Charitable Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mcauley Nazareth Inc — 74% of income from government
- Federation for Children Wspecial Needs — 10% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- Crossroads Continuum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Animal Shelter Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
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.
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