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The Cecil & Irene Hylton Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.9M
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$8.2MArts & Culture$6.5MHealth$5.5MEducation$1.8MHuman Services$1.3MEmployment$1.2MYouth Development$613kRecreation & Sports$270kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+3 grants · $4.2M
$80,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$93M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CECIL D HYLTON MEMORIAL CHAPEL FDN$1,932,834
UVA COMMUNITY HEALTH FDN$1,250,000
THE HYLTON PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AT GMU$1,000,000
Love Church$223,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WASH$185,000
C D HYLTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL$179,000
GAINESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL$135,892
THE GOOD NEWS COMM KITCHEN$100,000
Individual grant recipient$98,000
SEMPER K9$85,000
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY$83,333
HOUSE OF MERCEY$80,000
National Museum of Americans in War$54,809
NORTHERN VA FAMILY SERVICES$40,000
PWC Parks Foundation$40,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%THE FENWICK FOUNDATION: $50k → 7%THE FENWICK FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23M · 28 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
9

Total granted

$23M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+175%

Still filing today

43%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureEmploymentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $3.7M · revenue +59%
  • TH
    THE HOUSE INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +86%
  • HO
    HOUSE OF MERCY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $240k · revenue +186%

Funded once

  • PW
    PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY EDUCATION FDN
    one grant, 2019 · $1.1M
  • NC
    NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2019 · $91k · revenue +8%
  • TG
    The Good News Kitchen
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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
Uva Prince William Medical Center

Our mission transforming health and inspiring hope for all virginians and beyond. our vision to be the nation's leading public academic health system and a best place to work - while transforming patient care, research, education, and…

Health
2
Uva Prince William Health System

Uva prince william health system ("pwhs") is part of the uva community health enterprise, an integrated network of not-for-profit, tax-exempt entities that includes physician offices, outpatient facilities and community medical centers.…

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3
Northern Virginia Health Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Uva Community Health Inc

Our mission: transforming health and inspiring hope for all virginians and beyond. our vision: to be the nation's leading public academic health system and a best place to work - while transforming patient care, research, education, and…

Health
5
The West Virginia Chamber Foundation
Public Benefit
6
Williamsburg Community Health Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Carilion Clinic

Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.

Health
8
Virginians for Veterans

To assist veterans and their families and other charitable organizations with similiar charitable purpose.

Public Benefit
9
Carilion Medical Center

Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.

Health
10
Virginia Mason Medical Center

Virginia mason medical center's (the medical center) mission is to improve the health and well-being of the patients it services through the delivery of high quality, cost-effective care. the medical center provides integrated health…

Health
11
Virginia Sports Hall of Fame Foundation Inc

The mission of the virginia sports hall of fame foundation is to serve as a non-profit resource which celebrates athletic excellence in the commonwealth of virginia, while inspiring the public through programming and engaging entertainment.

Recreation & Sports
12
Team Joe Charities

Support Inova Hospital for Children

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nw Works Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cecil D Hylton Memorial Chapel Foundatio. 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

18 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. 18 of the 44 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cecil D Hylton Memorial Chapel Foundatio: $7,281,268 · OtherCecil D Hylton Memorial Chapel FoundatioTHE HYLTON PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AT GMU: $6,000,000 · OtherTHE HYLTON PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AT GMUUVA COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,250,000 · OtherUVA COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATIONTHE HOUSE INC: $1,151,500 · OtherPRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY EDUCATION FDN: $1,108,324 · OtherC D HYLTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL: $729,205 · Other+29 more: $4,340,800 · Other+29 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,700,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN…+2 more: $83,000 · HealthHOUSE OF MERCY: $240,000 · ReligionBATTLEFIELD LODGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $80,000 · Crime & LegalFENWICK FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Human ServicesSUMMER GRACE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyVIRGINIA NATIONAL BALLET: $15,000 · Arts & CultureNW WORKS INC: $10,000 · Employment
Other$21,861,097Health$3,783,000Religion$240,000Crime & Legal$80,000Human Services$70,000Philanthropy$30,000Arts & Culture$15,000Employment$10,000

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 budgetCecil D Hylton Memorial Chapel Foundatio: $7,281,268 over 6y, 99% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,700,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOUSE INC: $1,151,500 over 5y, 10% of budgetHOUSE OF MERCY: $240,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetGood Shepherd Housing Foundation: $206,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FAUQUIER INC: $125,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetNATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $90,664 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBATTLEFIELD LODGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetFENWICK FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $58,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDALE CITY SPORTS CLUB INC: $55,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetSUMMER GRACE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCE WILLIAM CREW: $25,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetVIRGINIA NATIONAL BALLET: $15,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetWESLEY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNW WORKS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 Cecil D Hylton Memorial Chapel Foundatio ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds UVA COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Housing Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FAUQUIER INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds BATTLEFIELD LODGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FENWICK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC ↗
  • Who funds DALE CITY SPORTS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER GRACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PRINCE WILLIAM CREW ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA NATIONAL BALLET ↗
  • Who funds WESLEY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds NW WORKS 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 Community Foundation for Northern Virginia IncVA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Truist Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Cecil & Irene Hylton Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cecil & Irene Hylton Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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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Find your warmest path to The Cecil & Irene Hylton Foundation Inc 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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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