· Private foundation
Robert a & Cynthia L Hilger 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF LANGLADE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| RED ROBIN FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 9 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 FY2025, 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
Backed again, and grew
- CLCAMP LUTHER INC5× · 2019–2023 · $25k
- RRRED ROBIN FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $15k
- UWUnited Way of Langlade County Inc4× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue -8%
Funded once
- BGBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $3k
ST NORBERT COLLEGE INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +3%- RHRenegade Helmet Club CO Brown Armstrong Accountancy Corporatone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -99%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Empower all young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens.
To enable young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. for more information visit www.boysandgirls.org.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To enable all young people especially those who need us the most, to reach their dreams and full potential as caring, productive, responsible citizens.
The mission of the organization is to operate exclusively for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of, boys and girls clubs of america, a d.c. corporation that was congressionally chartered in 1956 ("boys & girls clubs of america")…
The boys & girls club is an organization dedicated to serving the youth of the community. their mission statement is: to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive,…
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens.
The boys & girls club's mission is to inspire and enable all youth of the northern cheyenne nation and surrounding areas to be productive citizens.
To advance free market principles and ideas by recruiting, endorsing, and financing business-friendly ballot measures that reflect our commitment to responsible public policy, the expansion of economic opportunity, and an enhanced quality…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds United Way of Langlade County Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds MED ACCESS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Renegade Helmet Club CO Brown Armstrong Accountancy Corporat ↗
- Who funds CENTER COURT CLUB INC CENTER COURT CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRIDIRON CLUB AND FOUNDATION ↗
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: Gerald & Dorothy Volm Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert a & Cynthia L Hilger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert a & Cynthia L Hilger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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