· Private foundation
Hillsdale Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $898k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $515k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMPHIS INNER CITY RUGBY | $100,000 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $80,000 |
| BLUE SCHOLARS INITIATIVE INC | $70,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY | $65,000 |
| CAMP HARBOUR VIEW FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| CURAMERICAS GLOBAL INC | $50,000 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY SEAS DBA SEATTLE AQUARIUM | $50,000 |
| BUSINESS OF ART CENTER DBA MANITOU ART CENTER | $40,000 |
| ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC | $40,000 |
| MOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION | $31,000 |
| TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC | $30,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTE INC | $30,000 |
| DENSION UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
129 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 97 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $784k 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
- WFWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $403k · revenue +47%
- AFALLIANCE FOR THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY5× · 2019–2024 · $275k · revenue +281%
- TRTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- SVST VINCENTS HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $66k · revenue +225%
- TSTHE SOFT POWER HEALTH TRUSTone grant, 2020 · $58k · revenue -5%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Greensboro Incone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +7%
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.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
The north carolina conservation network supports, trains, and coordinates diverse groups and directly advocates to achieve equitable and sustainable solutions for our environment.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To provide advanced electronic and information technologies to the nc education community, public health, and government agencies and to benefit economic development in nc.
The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation Medici Endowment Fund. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
308 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. 308 of the 376 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT GLOBAL HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds ADARA DEVELOPMENT (USA) ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LOCUST PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds CONCRETE COUCH ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Memphis Inner City Rugby ↗
- Who funds Granville Athletic Boosters ↗
- Who funds CLEAN MIAMI BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds COALITIONS & COLLABORATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WEBB SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SEAL HARBOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds Partner for People and Place Inc ↗
- Who funds Blue Scholars Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENTS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Columbus School for Girls ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNTAINHEAD RESIDENCY INC ↗
- Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPARK THE JOURNEY ↗
- Who funds THE SOFT POWER HEALTH TRUST ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Aj Fletcher Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · The Cemala Foundation Inc · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation
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 Hillsdale Fund 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Trust — 100% of income from government
- Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
- Human Services Council Inc — 27% of income from government
- The Sundari Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc — 5% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- The Fountainhead Residency Inc — 3% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Camillus House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Health in the Hood Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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