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Hillman Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Hillman Charitable 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.

$149k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$148kPhilanthropy$147kHuman Services$65kInternational$45kEducation$33kScience & Tech$10kEnvironment$5kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $11k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $138k
$3,726
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MS KYLE NORBERG FOUNDATION$69,754
HILLMAN CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$68,173
MS KYLE NORBERG FOUNDATION (ACCR)$3,726
HILLMAN CHARITABLE GIFT FUND (ACCR)$3,726
COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC$3,000
SWAN HILLMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO$500
WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF MAINE$250
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%PARC INC: $7k → 12%PARC INC: $5k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
DC
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$326k · 23 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
3

Total granted

$326k
$3k

Still filing today

61%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k 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
EducationHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $64k · revenue +185%
  • RI
    ROSECRANCE INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $62k · revenue +33%
  • TJ
    THE JACKSON LABORATORY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • CG
    COMMON GOOD SOUP KITCHEN
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • PA
    PASS A GRILLE COMMUNITY CHURCH ST PETERSBURG FL
    one grant, 2017 · $500
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
6
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
10
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
11
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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12
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rosecrance Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is World Affairs Council of Maine. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
15/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MS KYLE NORBERG FOUNDATION: $69,754 · OtherMS KYLE NORBERG FOUNDATIONHILLMAN CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $68,173 · OtherHILLMAN CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDSt Petersburg Free Clinic Inc: $64,000 · OtherSt Petersburg Free Clinic IncROSECRANCE INC: $62,000 · OtherROSECRANCE INCTHE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM & LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $24,500 · OtherTHE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM & LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONWAYNEFLETE: $13,000 · Other+14 more: $38,902 · Other+14 moreTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $29,000 · HealthTHE JACKSO…MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $15,500 · HealthMOUNT DESE…ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 · PhilanthropyROSECRANC…VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE: $10,000 · PhilanthropyVAN ANDEL…Maine Community Foundation Inc: $1,750 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC: $19,000 · EducationFordham University: $8,000 · EducationEckerd College: $6,000 · EducationJESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $3,000 · EducationPARC INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesFriends of Acadia: $5,200 · EnvironmentWorld Affairs Council of Maine: $1,900 · InternationalAbbe Museum: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$340,329Health$44,500Philanthropy$39,750Education$36,000Human Services$11,000Environment$5,200International$1,900Arts & Culture$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Petersburg Free Clinic Inc: $64,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetROSECRANCE INC: $62,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $29,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC: $19,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $15,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPARC INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEckerd College: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Acadia: $5,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Affairs Council of Maine: $1,900 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAbbe Museum: $500 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROSECRANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds PARC INC ↗
  • Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds Eckerd College ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
  • Who funds JESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
  • Who funds World Affairs Council of Maine ↗
  • Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Abbe Museum ↗

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.

Raymond James Charita…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Hillman Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hillman Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Parc Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 33 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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