Connecticut · Private foundation
Hilltop Foundation Inc
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.
- $138k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Hilltop Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 9 | $138k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $120k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $119k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $109k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $93k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $94k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $67k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $81k | 30% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific House Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Hill School | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Stephens College | $55,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lehigh University | $45,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Loon Preservation Committee | $42,000 | 9 | 1% |
| New Canaan EMS Inc | $29,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Barnstormers Inc | $27,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Waveny Park Conservancy Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Getabout Inc | $23,000 | 9 | 2% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($411k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hilltop Foundation Inc 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: Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Pamela and Laurence Tarica Foundation · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Beach Foundation · The Seelert Foundation Inc · The Schifrin Foundation Inc · Tosa Foundation · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation
How this is measured
About Hilltop Foundation Inc
- How much does Hilltop Foundation Inc give?
- Hilltop Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $138,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hilltop Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Education (23%), International (8%).
- Who are Hilltop Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pacific House Inc ($60k), The Hill School ($60k), Stephens College ($55k).
- Does Hilltop Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hilltop Foundation Inc 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 Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hobbs Family Charitable Trust, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, The Pamela and Laurence Tarica Foundation.
- Where is Hilltop Foundation Inc based?
- Hilltop Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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