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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.

$165k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 22
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$43k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Hillenbrand Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsSocial SciencePhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$165k11%
FY202415$241k33%
FY20239$137k44%
FY202219$180k16%
FY202122$256k45%
FY202017$254kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$734kArts & Culture$186kEnvironment$106kHealth$77kYouth Development$61kRecreation & Sports$26kAnimals$25kFood & Nutrition$23kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
SC
DC
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 22 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($221k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hillenbrand Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPowerMyLearning Inc: $479,200 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetSheriff's Meadow Foundation: $105,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTrustees of Boston College: $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCharleston Literary Festival Inc: $62,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetEye to Eye Inc Dba the Neurodiversity Alliance: $60,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHistoric Charleston Foundation: $42,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNeighborhood Health Clinic Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCharleston Library Society: $24,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Preservation Society of Charleston Inc: $14,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetShania Twain Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetRock Creek Riding Club Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Benjamin Private School Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Aspen Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwich Country Day School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Museum Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetV G C Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetInternational African American Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe South Carolina Historical Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Shelter of Marthas Vineyard Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL16.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Hillenbrand Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hillenbrand Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Hillenbrand Family Foundation

How much does Hillenbrand Family Foundation give?
Hillenbrand Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $165,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Hillenbrand Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (58%), Arts & Culture (15%), Environment (8%).
Who are Hillenbrand Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: PowerMyLearning Inc ($479k), Sheriff's Meadow Foundation ($106k), Trustees of Boston College ($90k).
Does Hillenbrand Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hillenbrand Family Foundation 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 Hillenbrand Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Boston Foundation Inc, Guffey Family Foundation.
Where is Hillenbrand Family Foundation based?
Hillenbrand Family Foundation is based in SC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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