How much does The C Richard and Olive J Brose Hie Hill Foundation Inc give?

The C Richard and Olive J Brose Hie Hill Foundation Inc reported 43 grants totaling $526,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

Who are The C Richard and Olive J Brose Hie Hill Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($205k), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($195k), The Trust for Public Land ($170k).

Does The C Richard and Olive J Brose Hie Hill Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The C Richard and Olive J Brose Hie Hill 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 The C Richard and Olive J Brose Hie Hill Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Schwartz Charitable Foundation, Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.

The C Richard and Olive J Brose Hie Hill Foundation Inc

The C Richard and Olive J Brose Hie Hill Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The C Richard and Olive J Brose Hie Hill 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.

$526k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$1.1MCivil Rights$441kAnimals$390kHealth$378kInternational$288kCrime & Legal$280kArts & Culture$229kEducation$211kOther$0

02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k24 grants · $146k
$10k–50k17 grants · $280k
$50k–250k2 grants · $100k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$6.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE	$50,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY	$50,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND	$25,000
SOUTHERN POVERY LAW CENTER	$25,000
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS	$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA	$25,000
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND	$20,000
OCEAN CONSERVANCY	$15,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE	$15,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE	$15,000
PROJECT HOPE	$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD - SOUTHEAST	$15,000
SAVE THE SOUND	$15,000
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND	$15,000
ENVIROMENTAL DEFENSE FUND	$15,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of The C Richard and Olive J Brose Hie Hill Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 48% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 0%.

The C Richard and Olive J Brose Hie Hill Foundation Inclessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.5M · 63 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

63 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.5M

$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+48%

Still filing today

56%

14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentCivil RightsArts & CultureAnimalsInternationalEducationOther

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

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SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $205k · revenue +23%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $195k · revenue +43%
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
8× · 2018–2025 · $170k · revenue +119%

Funded once

TO
TOWN OF WESTBROOK CT SCIONGAY PROPERTY PROJECT
one grant, 2018 · $68k
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YWCA
one grant, 2020 · $10k
AF
AMANA FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -25%

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.

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals

Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc

To protect the nature of massachusetts for people and for wildlife through education, land conservation, advocacy, scientific research, and habitat stewardship/restoration.

Environment

Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit

World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals

Free Press

Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…

Arts & Culture

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment

Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights

National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment

The Wildlife Society

The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wilderness Society; the most unlike its peers is Icon Museum and Study Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 73 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/40

Grantees still filing

31/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,749,000Environment$650,500Crime & Legal$355,000Civil Rights$336,000Animals$289,000Health$240,000Education$226,000

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.

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.

Schwartz Charitable FoundationMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 C Richard and Olive J Brose Hie Hill Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The C Richard and Olive J Brose Hie Hill Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home