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Hillenbrand Family Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Stuart country Day Schol | $30,000 |
| Charleston Literary Festival | $27,500 |
| PowerMyLearning | $25,000 |
| Boston College | $25,000 |
| Marthas Vineyard Hospital | $10,000 |
| Marthas Vineyard Boys Girls Club | $10,000 |
| Historic Charleston Foundation | $10,000 |
| Vineyard Preservation Trust | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Charlesston Library Society | $3,500 |
| Rock Creek Horse Show | $3,000 |
| Sheriffs Meadow Foundation | $3,000 |
| Preservation Society of Charleston | $2,500 |
| Gibbes Museum | $2,500 |
| South Carolina Historical Society | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 72% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
27 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 11 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- SMSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $106k · revenue +135%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE5× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +50%
Charleston Literary Festival Inc4× · 2021–2025 · $63k · revenue +384%
Funded once
- CCAATone grant, 2024 · $10k
- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +16%
- HCHistoric Charleston Foundationone grant, 2020 · $6k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
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.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.
The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…
The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…
Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
Founded in 1747 on the enlightenment ideals of intellectual pursuit and civic engagement, the redwood library and athenaeum generates knowledge in the humanities for the benefit of the widest possible audience with nothing in view but the…
The martha's vineyard agricultural society supports a resilient and sustainable agricultural community on martha's vineyard. we do this by:- offering services, education, marketing, and technical support for farmers and farmworkers on the…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheriff's Meadow Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The South Carolina Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 42 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 PowerMyLearning Inc ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Charleston Literary Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds EYE TO EYE INC DBA THE NEURODIVERSITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Charleston Library Society ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc ↗
- Who funds SHANIA TWAIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rock Creek Riding Club Inc ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds V G C FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Guffey Family Foundation · South Carolina Humanities Council Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Almeida Family Foundation · Wf Foundation · Bessent-Freeman Family Foundation Inc · Mills Bee Lane Memorial Foundation · The Clyde and Summer Anderson 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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc — 30% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
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.
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