California · Private foundation
Hilltop 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.
- $373k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2025
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 2%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 59 to 72
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 2% of the organizations Hilltop Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 64 | $371k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 59 | $337k | 2% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $348k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 65 | $387k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 62 | $330k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 62 | $293k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 72 | $299k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 72 | $260k | 28% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Food Bank | $146,000 | 9 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $100,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund | $97,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $95,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Marin Community Clinic | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Oregon Food Bank | $80,500 | 6 | 0% |
| NAMI National | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Larkin Street Youth Services | $70,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Disabled American Veterans | $70,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($782k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hilltop Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Marin Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Extrafood · The William H Donner Foundation Inc · Heffernan Group Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About Hilltop Foundation
- How much does Hilltop Foundation give?
- Hilltop Foundation reported 65 grants totaling $373,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 59 and 72 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hilltop Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (21%), Human Services (18%), Health (14%).
- Who are Hilltop Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: San Francisco Food Bank ($146k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($100k), Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund ($98k).
- Does Hilltop Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hilltop Foundation 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 Hilltop Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, McNabb Foundation, Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation.
- Where is Hilltop Foundation based?
- Hilltop Foundation is based in CA.
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