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Hillery Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$41k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$44kSocial Science$9kEducation$8kEmployment$5kPublic Benefit$4kHuman Services$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kReligion$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$64k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NICHOLS HOUSE MUSEUM: $1k → 16%MOTION PICTURE HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%HARVARDWOOD: $500 → 14%SOCIETY OF THE CINCINATTI: $35k → 14%NEVADA ROTARY RESEARCH: $100 → 14%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $400 → 6%GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL: $2k → 9%NV MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $2k → 10%NV POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2k → 13%NICHOLS HOUSE MUSEUM: $500 → 16%ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%AMERICAN REVOLUTION INSTITUTE: $2k → 14%ASSOCIATION OF FORMER INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS: $2k → 6%GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $1k → 9%NV MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $1k → 10%NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2k → 13%AMERICAN REVOLUTION INSTITUTE: $1k → 14%ASSOCIATION OF FORMER INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS: $500 → 6%NV MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $500 → 10%NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2k → 13%COSMOS CLUB HISTORICAL PRESERVATION: $1k → 14%ASSOCIATION OF FORMER INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS: $500 → 6%NV MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $500 → 10%NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1k → 13%NV MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $150 → 10%NV POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1k → 13%NV MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $100 → 10%NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1k → 13%NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1k → 13%HARVARD CLUB OF NEVADA: $500 → 13%HARVARD CLUB OF NEVADA: $290 → 13%HARVARD CLUB OF NEVADA: $250 → 13%FOUNDERS EDUCATION LEGACY INC: $2k → 13%FOUNDERS EDUCATION LEGACY INC: $2k → 13%ITALIAN AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL & EXECUTIVE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 13%FIREFIGHTERS MEMORIAL TRANSPORT FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $1k → 13%FIREFIGHTERS MEMORIAL TRANSPORT FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI: $300 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 50% of Hillery Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 39% of the giving stays in NV; by stated purpose, 35%.

Hillery Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29k · 9 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$29k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+22%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NP
    NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    7× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +87%
  • NM
    NEVADA MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $4k · revenue +70%
  • FE
    FOUNDERS EDUCATION LEGACY INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +180%

Funded once

  • IA
    ITALIAN AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL & EXECUTIVE ASSOC INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • CC
    COSMOS CLUB HISTORICAL PRESERVATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • AF
    ACADEMY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -32%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Nevada Veterans Memorial Plaza

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

Arts & Culture
2
Nevada Theatre Commission

Maintain historic building

Arts & Culture
3
Nevada Gold Mines Heritage Fund
Philanthropy
4
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
5
The Nevada Discovery Museum

Educating children and adults through interactive hands-on exhibits and educational programming.

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6
Friends of the Nevada Mansion

The organization is formed for the preservation, maintenance, restoration and support of the nevada governors mansion.

Arts & Culture
7
Nevada Museum of Art

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Nevada Mining Association

To further the interests of the mining industry in nevada.

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9
The Neon Museum

The neon museum is dedicated to collecting, preserving, studying and exhibiting iconic las vegas signs for educational, historic, arts and cultural enrichment.

Arts & Culture
10
National University

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…

Education
11
300 Stewart Avenue Corporation

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Unlv Research Foundation

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…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Academy Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOCIETY OF THE CINCINATTI: $35,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF THE CINCINATTINEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $8,500 · OtherNEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTEITALIAN AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL & EXECUTIVE ASSOC INC: $5,000 · OtherITALIAN AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL & EXECUTIVE ASSOC INCAMERICAN REVOLUTION INSTITUTE: $2,776 · OtherASSOCIATION OF FORMER INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS: $2,500 · OtherFIREFIGHTERS MEMORIAL TRANSPORT FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Other+7 more: $5,840 · Other+7 moreFOUNDERS EDUCATION LEGACY INC: $3,300 · EducationFOUNDERS …UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…Harvardwood: $500 · EducationHarvardwo…NICHOLS HOUSE MUSEUM INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureACADEMY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMOTION PICTURE HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureNEVADA MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $3,750 · Public Benefit
Other$62,116Education$6,800Arts & Culture$4,500Public Benefit$3,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $8,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetITALIAN AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL & EXECUTIVE ASSOC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetNEVADA MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $3,750 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetFOUNDERS EDUCATION LEGACY INC: $3,300 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF FORMER INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS: $2,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNICHOLS HOUSE MUSEUM INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetACADEMY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarvardwood: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hillery Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hillery Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 21 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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