How much did HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

arts culturalcovid emergencycovid artscovid artslearningathomecare southwesternemergency responsecovid relief

2021

arts cultureculture recoverycovid artsheritage corpstillgrapespeaches

2022

holiday foodarts lecturesucsb artsaging challengechallenge awardeefood pantryrevolving

2023

jubileefederalupgradeorgan recoveryrecovery educationstrongharm reduction

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 784 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k179 grants · $543k
$10k–50k352 grants · $6.7M
$50k–250k182 grants · $19M
$250k+71 grants · $61M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.9B

Total assets

Largest grants

CARNEGIE INSTITUTETHE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM$5,000,000
EYE & EAR FOUNDATION INC$3,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE$3,000,000
CARNEGIE INSTITUTETHE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM$3,000,000
CARLOW UNIVERSITY$2,000,000
THE PITTSBURGH TRUST FOR CULTURAL RESOURCES$2,000,000
CARNEGIE INSTITUTECARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$2,000,000
NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND$2,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$2,000,000
RIDC REGIONAL GROWTH FUND$2,000,000
INNOVATEPGH PARTNERSHIP$1,750,000
AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER$1,500,000
CARNEGIE INSTITUTETHE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM$1,500,000
THREE RIVERS MOTHERS MILK BANK$1,400,000
NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIES INC$1,400,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $34.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$371M · 790 repeat orgs$53M to everyone else

790 repeat relationships — 467 still active in FY2024, 323 since wound down; 155 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

790

448

Total granted

$371M

$43M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+50%

Still filing today

86%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

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EYE & EAR FOUNDATION INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $25M · revenue +449% · 69% of their budget
CM
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
5× · 2020–2024 · $23M · revenue +23%
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
5× · 2020–2024 · $14M · revenue +23%

Funded once

CL
CINNAIRE LENDING CORPORATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue +471% · 39% of their budget
UO
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTEDBA UPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTER
one grant, 2020 · $3.0M
RO
RIVERS OF STEEL HERITAGE CORPgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $3.0M · revenue +270% · 47% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Opera Philadelphia

Opera philadelphia is committed to embracing innovation and developing opera for the 21st century.

Arts & Culture

Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.

Education

Pittsburgh Entertainment Project

To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.

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Pidc Development Management Corporation

Administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other nfp entities.

Community Improvement

Philadelphia Industrial Development

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement

Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. strives to build a stronger workforce through career, skills training, employment services for career seekers, business services for employers, and labor market insights for smart workforce solutions and innovation.

Employment

Philadelphia Chinatown Development

Pcdc provides bilingual, culturally sensitive assistance and services to clients in philadelphia's chinatown neighborhood

Community Improvement

Association for Public Art

To commission, interpret, promote and preserve public art in philadelphia."

Arts & Culture

Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement

Peninsula Arts Guild

Performing arts facility in the san francisco bay area's peninsula region.

Arts & Culture

Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities.

Food & Nutrition

Portland Business Alliance

To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Home of Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.4%4/1,135

the rest of the field

6,103/77,027

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

1111 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

101

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

395

Early backer (in before they grew)

1098/1111

Grantees still filing

851/1111

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$211,287,591Community Improvement$45,866,300Arts & Culture$42,418,189Health$39,841,844Human Services$38,054,259Education$31,462,147Housing & Shelter$14,351,950

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.

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.

The Heinz EndowmentsPA250.1× affinity240 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Heinz Endowments · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Grable Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · The Buhl Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Fine Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public 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 organisation HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HILL RENAISSANCE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7792 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 251540715 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HILL RENAISSANCE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7792 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Hillman Family Foundations?

Find your warmest path to Hillman Family Foundations through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines