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Hill Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$20k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2024
28
Organizations funded FY2023
39%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$400
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 28
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$54k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 39% of the organizations Hill Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalArts & CultureEducationAnimalsCrime & LegalReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving21$20k19%
FY202328$24k39%
FY202222$32k45%
FY202120$23k20%
FY202021$25k52%
FY201912$15k17%
FY201823$24k30%
FY201727$23kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$41kYouth Development$40kArts & Culture$20kHealth$19kHuman Services$9kCrime & Legal$9kEnvironment$9kEducation$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
CA
CO
VA
MD
KS
DC
OK

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hill Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInvest in Kids: $40,100 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Development Enterprises: $35,744 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNurse-Family Partnership: $17,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSolvang Theaterfest Inc: $9,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDenver Botanic Gardens Inc: $5,550 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Bar Foundation: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Lawyers Committee: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSanta Ynez Valley Jewish Community: $4,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $3,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Children's Campaign: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDenver Art Museum: $3,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLutheran Social Services of Colorado: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Botanic Garden: $2,080 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family Service of Colorado Inc: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Ynez Valley Foundation: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPublic Broadcasting of Colorado Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wildflower Foundation: $650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Nature Art Museum: $550 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Denver: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Metro Denver Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Land Institute: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Zoological Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrout Unlimited Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimals in Need Fund: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBedford Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetShaker Schools Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 38.

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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.

The Denver FoundationCO18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

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How do I get to Hill Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hill Family Foundation 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.

About Hill Family Foundation

How much does Hill Family Foundation give?
Hill Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $19,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Hill Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (22%), Youth Development (21%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are Hill Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Invest in Kids ($40k), International Development Enterprises ($36k), Nurse-Family Partnership ($17k).
Does Hill Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hill Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hill Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Rose Community Foundation.
Where is Hill Family Foundation based?
Hill Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 78 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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