· Private foundation
Hillcrest Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k21 grants · $562k
- $50k–250k56 grants · $4.8M
- $250k+7 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALLAS METHODIST HOSPITALS FOUNDATION INC | $500,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| PARKLAND FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $400,000 |
| ST PHILIP'S SCHOOL & COMMUNITY CENTER | $250,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $250,000 |
| CITYSCAPE SCHOOLS INC | $250,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS | $200,000 |
| PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE | $200,000 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF DALLAS INC | $200,000 |
| FOOD FOUNDATION DBA HUNGER BUSTERS | $150,000 |
| HEALING HANDS MINISTRIES INC | $150,000 |
| MY POSSIBILITIES | $150,000 |
| DALLAS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC | $150,000 |
| ROCKWALL COUNTY HELPING HANDS | $150,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $6.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
150 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2025, 103 since wound down; 37 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CMCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +4%
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +35%
- PFPARKLAND FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +30%
Funded once
- TPTrinity Park Conservancygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +504%
- MHMETHODIST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $500k
- TSTWELFTH STEP MINISTRY INCone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +8%
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.
Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…
To unify services across Dallas County, to empower youth, strengthen families and build safe, healthy communities.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
Downtown Dallas, Inc. Foundation is the charitable arm of Downtown Dallas, Inc. whose purpose is to help make the area in and around Downtown Dallas a more vibrant and livable place for both daytime and permanent residents by promoting the…
Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.
The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
To engage and educate communities to prevent sexual violence and to support survivors and their loved ones as they heal and thrive.
How this is measured
277 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. 277 of the 354 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST TRANSPLANT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Health Resources Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Irving Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Trinity Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds TWELFTH STEP MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Methodist Hospitals Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR PARK FIRST ↗
- Who funds MY POSSIBILITIES ↗
- Who funds DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Baylor Health Care System Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CITYSCAPE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds GASTON CHRISTIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CALLIER CENTER AND COMMUNICATION DISORDERS ↗
- Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds WIPE OUT KIDS' CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGY ↗
- Who funds SHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Mane Gait ↗
- Who funds Carter BloodCare ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GATEWAY INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
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: W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Moody Foundation · The Addy Foundation · The Perot Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hillcrest Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hillcrest Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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