· Private foundation
Hillard Family Charitable Trust
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $23,200 |
| FIRST METHODIST CHURCH | $9,900 |
| ALBANY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $5,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CONCERT ARTISTS GUILD | $2,000 |
| CLASSICAL KIDS MUSIC EDUCATION | $2,000 |
| MAD HOUSES INC | $1,000 |
| POLICE BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DOUGHERTY COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY | $600 |
| ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $560 |
| HERITAGE CENTER | $300 |
| EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN GEORGIA INC | $100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 25%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- YCYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC2× · 2021–2023 · $9k · revenue +112%
- TLTHE LITERARY CLASSICS OF THE US INC D/B/A LIBRARY OF AMERICA7× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +3%
- TATHE ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART INCORPORA3× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- GCGULF COAST PRESERVATION SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $1k
- ACALBANY CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2019 · $600 · revenue -7%
- PHPresbyterian Healthcare Foundationone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +10%
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 advance Alpharetta arts.
The albany symphony orchestra celebrates our living musical heritage. through brilliant live performances, innovative educational programming, and engaging cultural events, the albany symphony enriches a broad & diverse regional community.…
To build community through the arts.
To promote and exhibit contemporary visual art produced by emerging and established artist living primarily in the region and to inspire interest and provide enjoyment to an increasingly diverse audience.
Dedicated to the creation, presentation and advancement of contemporary art through its exhibitions, educational programming and studio art program.
Shape the cultural identity of alamance county by making art a tangible presence in the lives of its citizens. strive to enhance the quality of life by engaging people in a diverse array of art through the delivery of programming and…
The primary exempt purpose of this organization is to form a vehicle for achieving high quality artistic attainment for the benefit and erudition of the public and for the nurturing and development of creative talents and performance of…
Albany live brings musical performances to albany, texas to provide culture and arts to the local community.the performances bring tourism in support of our local retail businesses and restaurants.
The organization seeks to bring together musicians, artists, scholars and the community to collaborate across fields and genres on inter-disciplinary projects. caroga arts collective, inc. focuses on revitalizing local culture and life…
Fund raising and support of the library
The organization's mission is to cultivate a healthier and more interconnected community through cultural infrastructure and community-building arts programs.through the academy, community health and interconnectivity will be cultivated…
Mint's mission is to make atlanta a destination for the arts: a cultural hub where artists thrive, patrons experience transformative work, and communities are activated and engaged.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Albany Area Arts Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Center for Art & Rehabilitative Energies Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 38 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 YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Concert Artists Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LITERARY CLASSICS OF THE US INC D/B/A LIBRARY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART INCORPORA ↗
- Who funds POLICE BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Albany State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP ALBANY INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER TIES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ART & REHABILITATIVE ENERGIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGER LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds SOLOHOPE INC ↗
- Who funds FLINT RIVERQUARIUM INC ↗
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: Carlton Foundation · Fisher-Crum Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Hillard Family Charitable Trust 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.