· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $39k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLDEN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $18,500 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF WORCESTER | $10,000 |
| PRINCE OF PEACE PARISH | $10,000 |
| FIRST CONG CHURCH OF HOLDEN | $8,000 |
| TEMPO | $5,000 |
| MCAULEY NAZARETH | $3,000 |
| GREATER WORCESTER OPERA | $3,000 |
| WORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $2,000 |
| ANIMAL SHELTER OF STERLING | $1,500 |
| WORCESTER CHILDREN'S CHORUS | $1,000 |
| VISITATION HOUSE | $1,000 |
| FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN WITH | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WAWORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +2%
- MNMCAULEY NAZARETH INC2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +3%
- 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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 TEMPO INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CONTINUUM INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds MCAULEY NAZARETH 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 FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN WSPECIAL NEEDS ↗
- Who funds VISITATION HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER CHILDREN'S CHORUS 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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hill Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hill Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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