· Private foundation
Hillery 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOCIETY OF THE CINCINATTI | $35,000 |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL | $2,000 |
| NV POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $1,500 |
| UNLV FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| NICHOLS HOUSE MUSEUM | $500 |
| HARVARD CLUB OF NEVADA | $500 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 50% of Hillery Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 39% of the giving stays in NV; read by stated purpose it is 35% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 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, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- NPNEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE7× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +87%
- NMNEVADA MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE6× · 2017–2022 · $4k · revenue +70%
- FEFOUNDERS EDUCATION LEGACY INC2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +180%
Funded once
- IAITALIAN AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL & EXECUTIVE ASSOC INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- AFACADEMY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -32%
- TGTHE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +22%
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.
To honor and preserve the legacy of our fallen brothers and sisters who have given their life in service to our country since nevada became a state in 1864
Maintain historic building
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
Educating children and adults through interactive hands-on exhibits and educational programming.
The organization is formed for the preservation, maintenance, restoration and support of the nevada governors mansion.
The Nevada Museum of Art provides a forum for the presentation of creative ideas. It aspires to serve as a cultural resource for every member of the community.
To further the interests of the mining industry in nevada.
The neon museum is dedicated to collecting, preserving, studying and exhibiting iconic las vegas signs for educational, historic, arts and cultural enrichment.
To deliver accessible world-class student experiences by providing quality programs and services that ensure student success through meaningful learning. to be an inclusive and innovative university serving life-long learners who…
See schedule oto advance the public understanding of organized crime's history and impact on american society.key tenets of this mission include: operating as a financially independent and self-sustaining organization that contributes to…
The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the purposes of supporting, promoting, and reporting research activities at the university of nevada, las vegas, as an entity of the board of regents of the nevada system of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Academy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Motion Picture Hall of Fame Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 21 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 NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ITALIAN AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL & EXECUTIVE ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDERS EDUCATION LEGACY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF FORMER INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS HOUSE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MOTION PICTURE HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Harvardwood ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Hillery Charitable Trust 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.
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.