· Private foundation
Hill Foundation for Families Living with Disabilities
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ruth Page Foundation | $13,372 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Skidmore College | $5,000 |
| Shirley Ryan Ability Lab | $2,000 |
| various 500 | $1,900 |
| Access Living | $1,500 |
| Jewish United Fund | $1,500 |
| Key West Literary Seminar | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Shriners Hospital for Children | $500 |
| Chicago Public Library Foundation | $500 |
| Francis W Parker School | $500 |
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 (FY20–24, $410) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTHE RUTH PAGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +25%
- SCSKIDMORE COLLEGE7× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +34%
- RIRehabilitation Institute of Chicago9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- DWdancing with chicago celebsone grant, 2018 · $1k
- SMSheba Medical Centerone grant, 2024 · $1k
- FIFWDUS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +427%
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.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
Lookingglass theatre company is a national leader in the creation and presentation of innovative, cutting-edge theatrical work. lookingglass interweaves movement, circus arts and narrative in original and captivating ways. guided by an…
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
To enrich the lives of our community through dance education and performance while developing Chicago's native talent pool in a welcoming environment that celebrates multiculturalism & ethnic diversity.
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 69 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 THE RUTH PAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR INC ↗
- Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds KENYAN HEALTH CARE INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FWDUS INC ↗
- Who funds K9 ENRICHMENT INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINDA SCHULMAN INNOVATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds KAREN DOVE CABRAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITERATURE FOR ALL OF US ↗
- Who funds SHALVA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM HELICOPTER PILOTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LIFEWORK DIRECTION ↗
- Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hill Foundation for Families Living with Disabilities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hill Foundation for Families Living with Disabilities. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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