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The Allen Hilles Fund at a glance

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The Allen Hilles Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$705k
Granted FY2025still arriving
85
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$731kYouth Development$696kArts & Culture$542kHuman Services$344kCommunity Improvement$207kRecreation & Sports$129kCivil Rights$117kEmployment$98kOther$0
02FY2025 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k44 grants · $280k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $425k
$8,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOUNCE PARTNERS INC$15,000
THE FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY$15,000
PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION$15,000
PROVIDENCE CENTER$10,000
HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION$10,000
COLLECTIVE CLIMB INC$10,000
MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT$10,000
THE DREAM PROGRAM INC$10,000
CONNECTEDLY$10,000
CIVIC NEWS COMPANY$10,000
STUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE$10,000
THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION$10,000
LIFT EVERY VOICE PHILLY$10,000
THE CLAY STUDIO$10,000
BRIGHTER HORIZON$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $413k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%QUAKER VOLUNTARY SERVICE: $5k → 16%CRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS: $8k → 14%CHILDREN FIRST PA: $10k → 22%CRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS: $5k → 14%CRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS: $5k → 14%CHILDREN FIRST PA: $10k → 22%CRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS: $5k → 14%CRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS: $5k → 14%CHILDREN FIRST PA: $10k → 22%RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC: $8k → 14%PUBLIC CITIZENS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH: $10k → 22%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 22%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 22%ESPERANZA IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES (EILS): $8k → 22%ESPERANZA IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES: $8k → 22%ESPERANZA IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES (EILS): $8k → 22%ESPERANZA IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES (EILS): $8k → 22%ESPERANZA IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES (EILS): $7k → 22%WOMENS MEDICAL FUND: $10k → 22%WOMENS MEDICAL FUND: $10k → 22%SOWN: $11k → 22%SUPPORTIVE OLDER WOMEN'S NETWORK: $10k → 22%SUPPORTIVE OLDER WOMEN'S NETWORK: $10k → 22%CONNECTEDLY: $10k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 22%SUPPORTIVE OLDER WOMEN'S NETWORK: $6k → 22%NORTH LIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 22%SEAMAAC: $5k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $11k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $10k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $10k → 22%ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $10k → 22%ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $10k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $8k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $8k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $8k → 22%CHILDREN FIRST PA: $11k → 22%CHILDREN FIRST PA: $10k → 22%WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $10k → 22%WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $6k → 22%WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $6k → 22%WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $5k → 22%CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $5k → 22%ARDELLA'S HOUSE INC: $8k → 22%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
PA
NJ
CO
NC
DC
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 107 repeat orgs$487k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

107 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

107
44

Total granted

$2.9M
$299k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+12%

Still filing today

79%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TP
    THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +21%
  • CF
    Children First PA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +81%
  • AS
    AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • PC
    PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +29%
  • PUENTES DE SALUD
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue -15%
  • LE
    LIFT EVERY VOICE PHILLY (FKA PHILLY PARENT ORGANIZING PROJECT)
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
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.

04Its 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
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
2
Public Trust

Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.

Arts & Culture
3
Horizons Greater Philadelphia Inc

Horizons Greater Philadelphia advances educational equity by building long-term partnerships with students, families, communities, and schools to create experiences outside of school that inspire the joy of learning.

—
4
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
5
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
6
Lead Pa

Cultivating the next generation of progressive leaders across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

—
7
PowerCorpsPHL

To combat community deterioration and promote education.

Employment
8
Philadelphia Contemporary

We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…

Human Services
9
Project 440 Inc

Project 440 teaches young people how to use music as a pathway to forge opportunities for themselves and ignite change in their communities.

Arts & Culture
10
Philadelphia Performing Arts a String Theory Charter School

Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.

Education
11
Emprendedores Inc

Education, arts and culture.

Arts & Culture
12
Build Philly Now

Our mission is to advance bold ideas for the built environment in the City of Philadelphia and the surrounding region, with a specific focus on transformative projects and ideas in the areas of housing, infrastructure, and energy.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Up Philly; the most unlike its peers is John Woodruff Simpson Memorial Library Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

130 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. 130 of the 178 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)
51
Early backer (in before they grew)
128/130
Grantees still filing
85/130
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $70,800 · Other+89 more: $1,381,080 · Other+89 moreEducation Law Center - PA: $45,800 · EducationEducation Law Ce…TREE HOUSE BOOKS: $43,060 · EducationTREE HOUSE BOOKSBOOK TRUST: $35,560 · EducationBOOK TRUSTCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $30,800 · EducationCOMMUNITY COLLEG…COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $30,800 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE…CIVIC NEWS COMPANY: $30,000 · EducationCIVIC NEWS COMPA…PROVIDENCE CENTER: $30,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE CENTE…LIFT EVERY VOICE PHILLY INC: $30,000 · EducationLIFT EVERY VOICE…Artwell Collaborative Inc: $28,400 · EducationArtwell Collabor…Achieve Now: $28,000 · EducationAchieve NowCODED BY: $26,500 · EducationBIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA: $21,640 · EducationPhiladelphia Robotics Coalition Inc: $20,800 · EducationTEAM UP PHILLY: $20,000 · EducationFINANCIAL SCHOLARS INC: $20,000 · Education+7 more: $68,140 · Education+7 moreChildren First PA: $60,800 · Human ServicesChildren First…NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $54,800 · Human ServicesNATIONALITIES …CONNECTEDLY: $46,800 · Human ServicesCONNECTEDLYABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $40,000 · Human ServicesABORTION LIBER…Esperanza Immigration Legal Services: $38,600 · Human ServicesEsperanza Immi…NORTH LIGHT BOYS' CLUB INC: $37,480 · Human ServicesNORTH LIGHT BO…CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $30,400 · Human ServicesCAMBODIAN ASSO…CRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS INC: $28,400 · Human ServicesCRAFTSBURY SAP…WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $27,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN TRANS…Quaker Voluntary Service Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesQuaker Volunta…SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR: $20,000 · Human Services+4 more: $23,500 · Human Services+4 moreTHE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND: $69,600 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PHILADELPH…AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS: $60,800 · Youth DevelopmentAFTER SCHOOL A…STUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE: $43,800 · Youth DevelopmentSTUDENTS RUN P…NORTH10 PHILADELPHIA: $38,800 · Youth DevelopmentNORTH10 PHILAD…NEIGHBORHOOD BIKE WORKS: $36,020 · Youth DevelopmentNEIGHBORHOOD B…JOUNCE PARTNERS INC: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentJOUNCE PARTNER…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $33,400 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS…ASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC: $23,480 · Youth DevelopmentASIAN AMERICAN…GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $20,400 · Youth DevelopmentNEED IN DEED: $20,000 · Youth Development+6 more: $50,000 · Youth Development+6 moreROCK TO THE FUTURE INC: $40,560 · Arts & CultureROCK TO TH…ALLENS LANE ART CENTER: $33,400 · Arts & CultureALLENS LAN…THE CLAY STUDIO: $28,400 · Arts & CultureTHE CLAY S…Asian Arts Initiative: $26,560 · Arts & CultureAsian Arts…KORESH DANCE COMPANY: $25,400 · Arts & CultureKORESH DAN…MAMADELE FOUNDATION: $20,400 · Arts & CultureMAMADELE F…MUSIC WILL INC: $20,400 · Arts & CultureMUSIC WILL…TALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC: $19,560 · Arts & CultureTALLER PUE…PHILADELPHIA SINFONIA ASSOCIATION: $18,400 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPH…MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $18,000 · Arts & CultureMOVEMENT A…KYL DANCERS INC: $15,400 · Arts & CulturePHOTOGRAPHY WITHOUT BORDERS INC: $12,320 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $29,500 · Arts & Culture+5 moreCENTRO NUEVA CREACION NEW CREATION COMMUNITY CENTER: $47,640 · Community ImprovementPHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $30,000 · Community ImprovementWhy Not Prosper Inc: $25,500 · Community ImprovementPHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementNORRIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT: $25,000 · Community ImprovementALBANY COMMUNITY TRUST INC: $17,740 · Community ImprovementGERMANTOWN UNITED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,400 · Community ImprovementVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementPhiladelphia Association of CDCs: $10,000 · Community ImprovementWOMEN'S OPPORTUNITIES RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $15,000 · Community ImprovementBRIGHTER HORIZON FOUNDATION: $32,640 · PhilanthropyVermont Childrens Trust Foundation: $30,400 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $17,500 · PhilanthropyGENTLE GRATITUDE: $8,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,451,880Education$509,500Human Services$432,780Youth Development$431,300Arts & Culture$308,300Community Improvement$226,280Philanthropy$113,540

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $70,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND: $69,600 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetChildren First PA: $60,800 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS: $60,800 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $54,800 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRO NUEVA CREACION NEW CREATION COMMUNITY CENTER: $47,640 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetCONNECTEDLY: $46,800 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetEducation Law Center - PA: $45,800 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSTUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE: $43,800 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTREE HOUSE BOOKS: $43,060 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER: $42,800 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BIG PICTURE ALLIANCE INC: $42,560 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetBEYOND THE BARS INC: $40,800 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetROCK TO THE FUTURE INC: $40,560 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $40,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetNORTH10 PHILADELPHIA: $38,800 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEsperanza Immigration Legal Services: $38,600 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN PHILADELPHIA: $37,800 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetNORTH LIGHT BOYS' CLUB INC: $37,480 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA: $36,640 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD BIKE WORKS: $36,020 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetHISTORIC FAIR HILL INC: $35,800 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetBOOK TRUST: $35,560 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PRINT CENTER: $35,400 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetJOUNCE PARTNERS INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $33,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALLENS LANE ART CENTER: $33,400 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetBRIGHTER HORIZON FOUNDATION: $32,640 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetWAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $32,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $30,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $30,800 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $30,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEST PARK CULTURAL CENTER: $30,400 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetCAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $30,400 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetVermont Childrens Trust Foundation: $30,400 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $30,060 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCIVIC NEWS COMPANY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE CENTER: $30,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetLIFT EVERY VOICE PHILLY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHealthy NewsWorks: $28,980 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CLAY STUDIO: $28,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS INC: $28,400 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetArtwell Collaborative Inc: $28,400 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetAchieve Now: $28,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetWOMEN IN TRANSITION: $27,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT: $26,640 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetAsian Arts Initiative: $26,560 over 4y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Children First PA ↗
  • Who funds AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS ↗
  • Who funds NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO NUEVA CREACION NEW CREATION COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTEDLY ↗
  • Who funds Education Law Center - PA ↗
  • Who funds STUDENTS RUN PHILLY STYLE ↗
  • Who funds TREE HOUSE BOOKS ↗
  • Who funds THE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE BIG PICTURE ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND THE BARS INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCK TO THE FUTURE INC ↗
  • Who funds ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA ↗
  • Who funds NORTH10 PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds Esperanza Immigration Legal Services ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds NORTH LIGHT BOYS' CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD BIKE WORKS ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC FAIR HILL INC ↗
  • Who funds BOOK TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE PRINT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JOUNCE PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLENS LANE ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHTER HORIZON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST PARK CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC ↗

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 Philadelphia Foun…The William Penn Foun…Henrietta Tower Wurts…The Patricia Kind Fam…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…Adam and Maria Sarah …The Barra Foundation …The Philadelphia Cult…Ludwick FdnUnited Way of Greater…Scattergood Behaviora…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA119.6× affinity76 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girls · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Ludwick Fdn · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Scattergood Behavioral Health 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 The Allen Hilles Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Allen Hilles Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • The Dream Program Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Vermont Works for Women Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Vermont Rural Education Collaborative Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Craftsbury Saplings Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Northeast Kingdom Collaborative Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation: 8% of income from government
  • Craftsbury Community Care Center: 1% of income from government
  • John Woodruff Simpson Memorial Library Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 The Allen Hilles Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Allen Hilles Fund 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 178 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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