How much did HILLSDALE FUND grant in FY2024?

Education$2.1MArts & Culture$1.2MHuman Services$1.1MEnvironment$894kHealth$566kCommunity Improvement$417kPhilanthropy$401kInternational$325kFood & Nutrition$279kOther$4.4M

02FY2024 · 69 grants

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

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$36M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC$40,000
BUSINESS OF ART CENTER DBA MANITOU ART CENTER$40,000
MOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION$31,000
GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY$30,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTE INC$30,000
DENSION UNIVERSITY$30,000
TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC$30,000

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 74% 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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.7M · 129 repeat orgs$5.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.

129 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 100 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

129

216

Total granted

$6.7M

$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

Still filing today

78%

69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $869k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

AF
ALLIANCE FOR THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY
5× · 2019–2024 · $275k · revenue +281%
GU
Greensboro Urban Ministry
8× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +57%
RA
ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $195k · revenue +80%

Funded once

SV
ST VINCENT'S HOUSE
one grant, 2018 · $66k
SH
SOFTPOWER HEALTH TRUST
one grant, 2020 · $58k
NS
North Shore Tennis and Fitness
one grant, 2017 · $50k · 58% 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.

Three Rivers Land Trust Inc

Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland

Environment

Greensboro College

An academic and social community that unites the liberal arts and Judeo-Christian values.

Education

North Carolina Partnership for

Advance a high quality, comprehensive, accountable early childhood system that benefits each child in north carolina beginning with a healthy birth.

Education

North Carolina Biotechnology Center

To provide long-term economic and societal benefits to north carolina through support of biotechnology research, business, education and strategic policy statewide.

Science & Tech

Housing for New Hope

Ending homelessness in durham, north carolina

Housing & Shelter

Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

To promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services

New North Carolina Project Action First

The new north carolina project's mission is to make politics represent the needs of north carolinians by investing in communities of color, expanding the engaged electorate and creating #lifelongvoters.

Civil Rights

NourishNC Inc

Provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition

Foundation for the Carolinas

Foundation for the carolinas is a non-profit community foundation serving donors and a broad range of charitable purposes in north and south carolina through grantmaking and civic leadership.

Philanthropy

Carteret County General Hospital Foundation

For promotion and support of carteret general hospital

Philanthropy

Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education

North Carolina Zoological Society Inc

The mission of the nc zoo society is to champion our zoo and its initiatives, wildlife and wild places, with an emphasis on the future. the nc zoo society is your bridge to more than a zoo visit. we make you a partner in the zoo's global…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healing Transitions Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 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 30 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.4%1/287

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,278

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.

04the grantee network

274 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

269/274

Grantees still filing

210/274

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,405,636Education$2,104,293Arts & Culture$1,222,750Human Services$1,058,250Environment$894,000Health$565,562Community Improvement$416,500

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.

Community Foundation of GreaterNC67.6× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Greensboro Jewish Federation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · The Winston-Salem 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 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: Watershed NOW.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +64% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 811136864 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 Watershed NOW, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 77% 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 Hillsdale Fund?

Find your warmest path to Hillsdale Fund 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.

HILLSDALE FUND

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

274 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Hillsdale Fund?

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HILLSDALE FUND

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

274 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Hillsdale Fund?

More from the funding graph