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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IDE | $6,000 |
| INVEST IN KIDS | $5,000 |
| SOLVANG THEATERFEST | $2,050 |
| COMMUNITY CHEST | $1,000 |
| SANTA YNEZ JEWISH COMMUNITY | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $500 |
| DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS | $500 |
| BROOMFIELD HIGH SCHOOL | $500 |
| ACLU | $500 |
| LOTUSLAND | $400 |
| ELVERHOJ MUSEUM | $400 |
| LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES | $250 |
| SANTA YNEZ VALLY FOUNDATION | $250 |
| FOOD BANK OF SANTA BARBARA | $250 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $250 |
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 (FY17–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- IIINVEST IN KIDS8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +76%
- IDINTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES7× · 2017–2023 · $36k · revenue +79%
- NPNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP7× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- SFSOLVANG FESTIVAL THEATERone grant, 2020 · $2k
- PBPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +81%
- HIHIAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +180%
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.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
To advance the science of jurisprudence, secure the more efficient administration of justice, encourage the adoption of proper legislation, advocate thorough and continuing legal education, uphold the honor and integrity of the bar,…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trout Unlimited Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
40 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. 40 of the 78 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 INVEST IN KIDS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds SOLVANG THEATERFEST INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Colorado Lawyers Committee ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY JEWISH COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds Colorado Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% 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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