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Hill Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Roots Housing | $150,000 |
| Vashon Maury Community Food Bank | $125,000 |
| Food Lifeline | $100,000 |
| DESC | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Low Income Housing Institute | $100,000 |
| Farestart | $75,000 |
| Community Passageways | $50,000 |
| United Way | $50,000 |
| Treehouse | $50,000 |
| Plymouth Housing | $50,000 |
| YWCA SeattleKingSnohomish | $50,000 |
| Friends of Youth | $50,000 |
| United Indians of All Tribes | $35,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
24 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k 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
- LILOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE4× · 2021–2024 · $400k · revenue +120%
- FLFOOD LIFELINE4× · 2021–2024 · $400k · revenue +2%
- TTREEHOUSE4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- YPYWCA PIERCE COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -12%
- YYMCAone grant, 2023 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…
Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…
Low-income housing.
Housing connector partners with property owners and managers to lower barriers to housing and increase our region's affordable housing capacity.
To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults and families. we support the behavioral health of at-risk and in-crisis youth across the greater south king county area. we take…
Compass family services helps homeless families and those at imminent risk to achieve housing stability, economic self-sufficiency, and well-being.
At Solid Ground, we work passionately to end poverty and build a more equitable community. Our services support people experiencing poverty by helping them achieve stability and expand their skills to realize their dreams. And that's just…
LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.
Hopelink equips people to exit poverty through comprehensive services, impactful partnerships, and advocacy for equitable opportunities for all.
To provide individuals with criminal histories the opportunity to lead healthy, productive lives, and further the fostering of low income housing.
Friendship Place is a leader in the Washington, DC, metro area in developing solutions to homelessness that have measurable results and a lasting impact. Friendship Place's mission is to empower people who are experiencing or at risk of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compass Housing Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Langston. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 33 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 LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YOUTH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds VASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds YWCA PIERCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LANGSTON ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds AMARA ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Street Center ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Medina Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · NW Childrens Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Raikes Foundation · The Satterberg 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.
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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