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Hilltop Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
64
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.

Health$532kHuman Services$362kReligion$153kPhilanthropy$83kAnimals$74kArts & Culture$68kHousing & Shelter$55kYouth Development$43kOther$0
02FY2024 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $99k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $671k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $313k
$15,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSP$60,000
NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE$52,500
IN THE WAITING$50,000
UNITED METHODIST MEMORIAL HOME$50,000
FAITH COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION$50,000
FRESNO CHAFFEE ZOO$50,000
VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION$40,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE$35,000
NORTHERN NEVADA HOPES$30,000
SALVATION ARMY$28,498
AGAPE CHURCH SLO$25,000
WARREN INC$25,000
BILL WILSON CENTER$25,000
SIERRA MONO MUSEUM$25,000
PAHRUMP SENIOR CENTER$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $256k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $20k → 17%UNITED METHODIST MEMORIAL HOME: $50k → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $11k → 14%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE: $53k → 13%BILL WILSON CENTER: $25k → 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE: $5k → 13%BILL WILSON CENTER: $5k → 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE: $3k → 13%BILL WILSON CENTER: $5k → 8%MARJAREE MASON CENTER: $8k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER: $5k → 19%MARJAREE MASON CENTER: $5k → 19%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $20k → 10%EDDY HOUSE: $13k → 10%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 10%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 10%EDDY HOUSE: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
NV
IN
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
GA

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.

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$996k · 33 repeat orgs$487k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
1

Total granted

$996k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+21%

Still filing today

55%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $482k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsHousing & ShelterReligionOther

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

  • VH
    VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $110k · revenue +138%
  • FC
    FAITH COMMUNICATIONS CORP
    3× · 2022–2024 · $80k · revenue +8%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • HS
    HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +21%

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.

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Safe Embrace

Safe Embrace is committed to ending the cycle of domestic and sexual violence with innovative prevention and intervention services. We help victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking become survivors by providing…

Health
2
Hospice of Reno County Inc

Enhancing the quality of life through integrated healthcare.to provide physical, emotional, and spiritual support and care for the terminally ill, families, and others through all phases of an illness so that they may live as fully and as…

Human Services
3
Next Move Homeless Services

To help families with children and individuals achieve self-reliance

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4
Carson Tahoe Regional Healthcare

To enhance the health and well-being of the communities we serve.

Health
5
Valley Humane SocietyInc

Valley Humane Society (VHS) creates a brighter future for cats and dogs by encouraging and strengthening the bond between people and pets. VHS rescues and rehabilitates companion animals, champions responsible caretaking, shares pets'…

Animals
6
Nevada Health Centers Inc

NVHC provides health services throughout the State of Nevada. Health services include OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Primary medical, Behavioral Health and dental care services. NVHC operates a mobile mammography clinic, two mobile…

Health
7
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
8
Westcare Nevada Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
9
Renown Health

Renown Health makes a genuine difference in the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve.

Health
10
Northland Hospice

We are a team of professionals striving to prepare our patients and families for the end of life experience. we support the patient, family, and friends in facing challenges of a life limiting illness by offering physical, emotional, and…

Human Services
11
Noah's Animal House Foundation

To remove the "no pets allowed" sign on the doors of domestic violence shelters. women should not have to choose between leaving their abuser and leaving their pets behind to be abused.

Animals
12
California Housing Partner Corporation

The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Santa Cruz County and the most unlike its peers is Never Forgotten Animal Society Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteady#7#5#15#2#12#17
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 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%31%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/42
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,523

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

39 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. 39 of the 67 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/39
Grantees still filing
21/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSP — $90,000 · OtherST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPIN THE WAITING — $70,000 · OtherIN THE WAITINGCOMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE — $55,109 · OtherCOMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCESALVATION ARMY — $40,998 · OtherSALVATION ARMYCATHLOIC CHARITIES OF NORTHERN — $38,000 · OtherPAHRUMP SENIOR CENTER INC — $35,000 · OtherHIGH FIVES FOUNDATION — $28,000 · OtherAGAPE CHURCH SLO — $25,000 · OtherWARREN INC — $25,000 · Other+30 more — $319,749 · Other+30 moreNathan Adelson Hospice Inc — $60,000 · Human ServicesNathan Adelson Hosp…United Methodist Memorial Home — $50,000 · Human ServicesUnited Methodist Me…BILL WILSON CENTER — $35,000 · Human ServicesBILL WILSON CENTERDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER — $32,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE R…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $25,998 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PRO…COVENANT HOUSE — $20,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSEMARJAREE MASON CENTER INC — $17,500 · Human ServicesMARJAREE MASON CENT…EDDY HOUSE — $15,498 · Human ServicesEDDY HOUSE+1 more — $4,000 · Human ServicesVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) — $110,000 · HealthVALLEY HEALTH FOUN…Northern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services — $54,000 · HealthNorthern Nevada HI…PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $20,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $20,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SO…AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG ASSO…NEW HAMPSHIRE CHILDREN'S TRUST INC — $15,000 · HealthNEW HAMPSHIRE CHIL…+1 more — $2,500 · HealthFAITH COMMUNICATIONS CORP — $80,000 · ReligionKQED INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureSierra Mono Museum — $25,000 · Arts & CultureFRESNO IDEAWORKS — $15,000 · Arts & CultureNEVADA PUBLIC RADIO — $7,500 · Arts & CultureCHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $3,000 · Arts & CultureFresnos Chaffee Zoo Corporation — $50,000 · AnimalsNIKE ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION — $14,249 · AnimalsNEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY — $2,500 · AnimalsNever Forgotten Animal Society Inc — $2,500 · AnimalsABODE SERVICES — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterPoverello House — $15,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$726,856Human Services$259,996Health$241,500Religion$80,000Arts & Culture$75,500Animals$69,249Housing & Shelter$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) — $110,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFAITH COMMUNICATIONS CORP — $80,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetNathan Adelson Hospice Inc — $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE — $55,109 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorthern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services — $54,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFresnos Chaffee Zoo Corporation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Methodist Memorial Home — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBILL WILSON CENTER — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER — $32,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $25,998 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans Guest House Inc — $22,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARJAREE MASON CENTER INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEDDY HOUSE — $15,498 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTrauma Intervention Programs Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetABODE SERVICES — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRESNO IDEAWORKS — $15,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetPoverello House — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE CHILDREN'S TRUST INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNIKE ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION — $14,249 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetHOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColby-Sawyer College — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEVADA PUBLIC RADIO — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTU CASA LATINA — $4,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNever Forgotten Animal Society Inc — $2,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCenter for Adaptive Riding — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL PONY EXPRESS CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
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.

NV Energy Charitable …Robert Z Hawkins Foun…Community Foundation …The Nell J Redfield F…The E L Cord Foundati…Helen Close Charitabl…Sosj Knights Hospital…The Skip Viragh Found…Peek Family Charitabl…John Ben Snow Memoria…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Tahoe Community Found…
NV Energy Charitable FoundationNV23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · Helen Close Charitable Foundation · Sosj Knights Hospitaller Priory of the Western USA · The Skip Viragh Foundation Inc · Peek Family Charitable Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Tahoe Community 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 organization Hilltop Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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: 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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