How much did HILLENBRAND FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of HILLENBRAND FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

uphaeye

2021

martha's vineyarduphaanimaleyepreservation charleston

2022

museumeye

2023

eyepreservation

2024

martha's vineyardpreservation

2025

marthas vineyardmuseumpreservation

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k11 grants · $28k
$10k–50k7 grants · $138k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$43k

Total assets

Largest grants

Stuart country Day Schol$30,000
Charleston Literary Festival$27,500
Boston College$25,000
PowerMyLearning$25,000
Marthas Vineyard Hospital$10,000
Historic Charleston Foundation$10,000
Marthas Vineyard Boys Girls Club$10,000
Drayton Hall$5,000
Vineyard Preservation Trust$5,000
Charlesston Library Society$3,500
Sheriffs Meadow Foundation$3,000
Rock Creek Horse Show$3,000
Gibbes Museum$2,500
Preservation Society of Charleston$2,500
Shania Twain Foundation$1,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 62% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.2M · 27 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 13 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

$1.2M

$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%

+119%

Still filing today

41%

27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureScience & TechEnvironmentHealthRecreation & SportsSocial ScienceOther

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

SM
Sheriffs Meadow Foundation
5× · 2020–2025 · $106k · revenue +175%
Charleston Literary Festival
4× · 2021–2025 · $63k · revenue +597%
ET
Eye To Eye
4× · 2020–2023 · $60k · revenue +79%

Funded once

SU
Stanford University
one grant, 2022 · $25k
MV
Martha's Vineyard Hospital
one grant, 2024 · $10k
C
CAAT
one grant, 2024 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture

Chatham Historical Society Inc

The mission of the chatham historical society is to inform and educate, present and future generations, about the history and culture of chatham and vicinity by collecting and preserving records of earlier generations and by exhibiting and…

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Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

To protect land through conservation easements and similar land conservation tools and to provide solutions and scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources focusing on the southeastern united states.

Environment

Falmouth Historical Society Inc

The mission of the falmouth historical society, through the museums on the green, is to provide educational programs, and to preserve, share and celebrate the history and culture of the cape cod town of falmouth.

Unclassified

Martha's Vineyard Agricultural

The society supports the promotion of safe, resilient and sustainable agricultural production, marketing and lifestyle on martha's vineyard.

Recreation & Sports

The Laurence School

Laurence's purpose is to develop the unique abilities and potential of each of its students.

Education

Cape Cod Museum of Natural History

To inspire appreciation, understanding and stewardship of our natural environment through discovery and learning.

Arts & Culture

Charleston Waterkeeper

Charleston waterkeeper's mission it to protect and restore charleston's waterways for our community and future generations. we do that through an effective mix of boots-on-the-water stewardship and data-driven advocacy designed to protect…

Environment

Humane Society for the Prevention

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals

American Institute for Conservation

Community Improvement

The Rhode Island Historical Society

The rhode island historical society, through its collections, museums, and educational initiatives, welcomes everyone to engage with rhode island's complex and significant past.

Arts & Culture

Southampton History Museum

The Southampton History Museum preserves and promotes the history and culture of Southampton by engaging diverse audiences in our shared heritage.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Charleston Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Aspen Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/16

Grantees still filing

14/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$545,450Science & Tech$479,200Environment$105,500Arts & Culture$66,000Health$40,000Youth Development$11,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

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.

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.

Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley FoundationIL15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South · Almeida Family Foundation · Bessent-Freeman Family Foundation Inc · Mills Bee Lane Memorial Foundation · Marilynn and John Hill Foundation Inc · Kirby Family Foundation Inc · South Carolina Humanities Council · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 organisation HILLENBRAND 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.

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4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Shania Twain Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~136 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 100.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 454622042 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Shania Twain Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 136 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Hillenbrand Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hillenbrand Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

HILLENBRAND FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Hillenbrand Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

HILLENBRAND FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Hillenbrand Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph