How much does Hillard Family Charitable Trust give?

Hillard Family Charitable Trust reported 12 grants totaling $48,260 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Hillard Family Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (31%), Arts & Culture (21%), Crime & Legal (1%).

Who are Hillard Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Concert Artists Inc ($9k), Albany Symphony Association Inc ($5k), Concert Artists Guild Inc ($5k).

Does Hillard Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Hillard Family Charitable Trust 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 Hillard Family Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carlton Foundation, Fisher-Crum Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.

Where is Hillard Family Charitable Trust based?

Hillard Family Charitable Trust is based in GA.

Hillard Family Charitable Trust

Hillard Family Charitable Trust at a glance

· 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.

$48k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$23k

Largest

01What it funds

0177% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$94kArts & Culture$64kCrime & Legal$3kHousing & Shelter$2kEducation$2kHealth$2kCivil Rights$600Community Improvement$500Other$0

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k11 grants · $25k
$10k–50k1 grant · $23k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$150k

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 25%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$282k · 18 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$282k

$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

+14%

Still filing today

39%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitCrime & LegalInternationalOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

YC
YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC
2× · 2021–2023 · $9k · revenue +112%
TL
THE LITERARY CLASSICS OF THE US INC D/B/A LIBRARY OF AMERICA
7× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +3%
TA
THE ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART INCORPORA
3× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +113%

Funded once

GC
GULF COAST PRESERVATION SOCIETY
one grant, 2021 · $1k
AC
ALBANY CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE INC
one grant, 2019 · $600 · revenue -7%
LA
LEADERSHIP ALBANY INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +99%

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.

04Its field

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.

Arts Alpharetta

To advance Alpharetta arts.

Arts & Culture

Albany Symphony Orchestra Inc

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.…

Arts & Culture

The Arts Council Inc

To build community through the arts.

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Albany Center Galleries Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

Atlanta Contempory Art Center Inc

Dedicated to the creation, presentation and advancement of contemporary art through its exhibitions, educational programming and studio art program.

Arts & Culture

Alamance County Arts Council Inc

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…

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Altama Museum of Art & History

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…

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Albany Live Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

Caroga Arts Collective Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Friends of the Albany Public Library

Fund raising and support of the library

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Academy Center of the Arts Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Mint Inc

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.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Albany Area Arts Council Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 38 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/17

Grantees still filing

12/17

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$270,119Arts & Culture$27,678Crime & Legal$3,000Public Benefit$2,500Health$1,220Recreation & Sports$510International$200

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.

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.

Carlton FoundationAL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hillard Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hillard Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home