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Hilltop Foundation at a glance

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Hilltop Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$358k
Granted FY2019
4
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Civil Rights$260kHuman Services$200kEducation$167kAnimals$144kEnvironment$80kArts & Culture$54kReligion$20kHousing & Shelter$15kOther$0
02FY2019 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$649k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STATE OF SAFETY$250,000
YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND$100,000
CENTER FOR WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP HATFIELD SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT$5,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$2,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Jessie F Richardson Foundation: $5k → 8%Mobius Incorporated: $5k → 9%YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $100k → 12%YWCA: $100k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 20% of Hilltop Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in OR; by stated purpose, 80%.

Hilltop Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
2
The Oregon Community Foundation Trust

The oregon community foundation trust is a supporting organization of the oregon community foundation (ocf). the trust makes grants that further the mission of ocf which is to improve the lives of all oregonians through the power of…

Philanthropy
3
Earth Day Oregon
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4
Oregon Websites and Watershed Project Inc

Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.

Environment
5
Oregon Olive Growers Foundation
Education
6
Oregon Public Health Association

Advocate for policies that protect and promote healthy and health equity for all people in oregon and provide learning, collaboration and leadership opportunities for public health professionals and the broader community.

Health
7
Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild

Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.

Environment
8
Oregon Center for Public Policy

The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…

Employment
9
Oregon Association of Public Accountants Scholarsh
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10
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
11
Oregon Research Institute

Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…

Social Science
12
Southern Oregon Orthopedic Research Foundation
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is Jessie F Richardson Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STATE OF SAFETY: $250,000 · OtherSTATE OF SAFETYNorthwest Outward Bound School: $60,000 · OtherNorthwest Outward Bound SchoolTRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL: $20,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE METOLIUS: $20,000 · OtherTHE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER: $15,000 · Other+12 more: $60,500 · Other+12 moreYWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $200,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF GREATER PORTLAN…+2 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $149,500 · PhilanthropyCONCORDIA UNIVERS…+1 more: $2,500 · PhilanthropyOREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $120,000 · AnimalsOREGON WILDLIFE …AVIAN HAVEN: $20,000 · AnimalsAVIAN HAVEN+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsNORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSKIDOMPHA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · EducationGLOBIO: $5,000 · EducationBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 · Health
Other$425,500Human Services$210,000Philanthropy$152,000Animals$141,000Arts & Culture$52,000Education$12,000Health$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTATE OF SAFETY: $250,000 over 1y, 91% of budgetYWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $200,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $149,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNorthwest Outward Bound School: $60,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAVIAN HAVEN: $20,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetTHE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBIO: $5,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetMOBIUS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJESSIE F RICHARDSON FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH DESERT MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Oregon Community …Meyer Memorial TrustMarie Lamfrom Charita…The Swigert FoundationUnited Way of the Col…The Harold & Arlene S…Maybelle Clark Macdon…Juan Young TrustThe Autzen FoundationHillman Family Founda…The Jackson FoundationThe Reser Family Foun…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR20.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Swigert Foundation · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Jackson Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hilltop Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hilltop Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation: 16% of income from government
  • Ywca of Greater Portland: 15% of income from government
  • High Desert Museum: 11% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • The Campbell Institute: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Hilltop Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hilltop Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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