· Private foundation
Hilltop Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAVENY CARE NETWORK | $30,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| PACIFIC HOUSE | $20,000 |
| LOON PRESERVATION COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| BARNSTORMERS | $10,000 |
| NEW CANAAN VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS | $5,000 |
| STRAYS & OTHERS INC | $5,000 |
| STEPHENS COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| GETABOUT INC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
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
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
- THTHE HILL SCHOOL6× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +44%
- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $45k · revenue +69%
- PHPACIFIC HOUSE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- WPWAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -30%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +98%- NCNEW CANAAN POLICE DEPTone grant, 2018 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Piscataquog Land Conservancy is a nonprofit land conservation organization founded in 1970. Its purpose is to conserve the natural and scenic environment of the Piscataquog, Souhegan and Nashua River watershed communities of southern…
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Dedicated to permanently preserve the natural, scenic and recreational resources of the Lake George Basin.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The Organization works with local landowners to permanently protect natural land and waters that define its community and enrich the quality of life by purchasing, managing, negotiating and developing conservations easements in the Upper…
Conservation of lyme's natural, scenic and historic land & water resources.
Loon Echo Land Trust protects land in the northern Sebago Lake region to conserve its natural resources and character for future generations.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior League of Stamford-Norwalk Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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.
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 50 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 42 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STEPHENS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Loon Preservation Committee ↗
- Who funds WAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BARNSTORMERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds GETABOUT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN EMS INC ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STRAYS & OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF STAMFORD-NORWALK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DOMUS KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds BALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC ↗
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.
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
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 Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Horizons Inc — 39% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 17% of income from government
- Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.