Michigan · Private foundation
Hillquist Irrevocable Family Foundation 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.
- $258k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $82,099
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Hillquist Irrevocable Family Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $258k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $245k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $145k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $193k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $12k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $11k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $11k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Childrens Museum of Branch County Inc | $316,849 | 8 | 49% |
| Families Forward Michigan | $135,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kettering University | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Crystal Community Ski Club | $18,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Coldwater Band Boosters | $16,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Readers Are Leaders | $11,500 | 3 | 6% |
| Benzie Area Historical Society | $7,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Cognition | $7,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Munson Healthcare Foundations | $6,250 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($274k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hillquist Irrevocable Family Foundation Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · The Seabury Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Herbert H and Barbara C Dow Foundation · Oleson Foundation · The Broad Family Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Hillquist Irrevocable Family Foundation Trust
- How much does Hillquist Irrevocable Family Foundation Trust give?
- Hillquist Irrevocable Family Foundation Trust reported 21 grants totaling $257,807 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hillquist Irrevocable Family Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Education (25%), Human Services (18%).
- Who are Hillquist Irrevocable Family Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Childrens Museum of Branch County Inc ($317k), Families Forward Michigan ($135k), Regents of the University of Michigan ($50k).
- Does Hillquist Irrevocable Family Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hillquist Irrevocable Family Foundation Trust 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 Hillquist Irrevocable Family Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation, The Seabury Foundation.
- Where is Hillquist Irrevocable Family Foundation Trust based?
- Hillquist Irrevocable Family Foundation Trust is based in MI.
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