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The Cream Hill Foundation

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.

$72k
Granted FY2024still arriving
62
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$219kArts & Culture$118kEnvironment$67kHealth$33kInternational$30kYouth Development$21kScience & Tech$19kPhilanthropy$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BARROW GROUP$4,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$3,500
PULLIAM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM$3,000
WEST CORNWALL PUBLIC LIBRARY$2,500
NOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE$2,000
PARK TUDOR SCHOOL$2,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CENTRAL$2,000
VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO$2,000
THE BARROW GROUP$2,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$2,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,000
GIRLS FOR A CHANGE$2,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$2,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$2,000
FRACTURED ATLAS$1,500
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 (FY19–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%INTL FRIENDS OF MARCIANA LIBRARY: $2k → 6%SARAH'S GUEST HOUSE: $250 → 14%INTL FRIENDS OF MARCIANA LIBRARY: $2k → 6%INTL FRIENDS OF MARCIANA LIBRARY: $2k → 6%INTL FRIENDS OF MARCIANA LIBRARY: $500 → 6%THE JULIAN CENTER: $500 → 16%THE JULIAN CENTER: $500 → 16%INTL FRIENDS OF MARCIANA LIBRARY: $2k → 17%INTL FRIENDS OF MARCIANA LIBRARY: $500 → 17%INTL FRIENDS OF MARCIANA LIBRARY: $500 → 17%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
NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$561k · 75 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

75 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
29

Total granted

$561k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+11%

Still filing today

61%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • IM
    INDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +118%
  • TB
    THE BARROW GROUP INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +58%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • PS
    PULLIAM SCHOOL FOR JOURNALISM
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • VC
    VASSAR COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +19%
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
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
11
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
12
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Great Mountain Forest Corporation. 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

67 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. 67 of the 108 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/67
Grantees still filing
51/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BARROW GROUP INC: $36,500 · OtherTHE BARROW GROUP INCPULLIAM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM: $25,500 · OtherPULLIAM SCHOOL OF JOURNALISMGOLDSTON MIME FOUNDATION: $16,750 · OtherVermont Public Radio: $16,000 · OtherGEORGE SCHOOL: $15,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $15,000 · OtherTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $15,000 · OtherTHE BREWERS FUND: $14,000 · OtherTHE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 · OtherDIXON PLACE: $11,000 · Other+55 more: $140,900 · Other+55 moreINDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC: $57,000 · EducationINDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INCDUKE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYPARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · EducationPARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INCTHE FESSENDEN SCHOOL: $14,000 · EducationTHE FESSENDEN SCHOOLPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $10,500 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middl…THE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $6,500 · EducationBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $6,000 · Education+9 more: $23,500 · Education+9 moreNOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC: $15,500 · EnvironmentVERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC: $12,750 · Environment350ORG: $4,750 · EnvironmentAmerican Whitewater: $2,500 · EnvironmentVote Solar: $2,500 · Environment+1 more: $250 · EnvironmentPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $23,500 · HealthALS ONE INC: $2,000 · HealthCHARLEY'S FUND INC: $1,500 · HealthTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $14,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,000 · InternationalSPEAK UP AFRICA INC: $2,500 · InternationalONE PURSE: $1,000 · International+1 more: $500 · InternationalFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureINDIANAPOLIS ART CENTER INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL COMEDY CENTER INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureMESA REFUGE A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,500 · Arts & CultureADIRONDACK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $1,500 · Arts & CultureLJMN Media Inc: $1,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $1,250 · Arts & CultureThe International Friends of the Marciana Library Inc: $9,000 · Human ServicesTHE JULIAN CENTER INC: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human Services
Other$317,650Education$158,500Environment$38,250Health$27,000International$21,000Arts & Culture$19,250Human Services$10,250

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC: $57,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARROW GROUP INC: $36,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $23,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Public Radio: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC: $15,500 over 8y, 12% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $15,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FESSENDEN SCHOOL: $14,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC: $12,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe International Friends of the Marciana Library Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 54% of budgetTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGENIUS RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget350ORG: $4,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson College: $4,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF INDIANA INC: $4,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNSA FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNaropa University: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCornwall Conservation Trust Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $3,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS ART CENTER INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENDANGERED SPECIES FUND: $3,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL COMEDY CENTER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Mountain Forest Corporation: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Whitewater: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMESA REFUGE A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSPEAK UP AFRICA INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVote Solar: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORNWALL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS ONE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetADIRONDACK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTAMORE HOUSE GUILD INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCHARLEY'S FUND INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLJMN Media Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRPLAY INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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 INDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BARROW GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PARK TUDOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Vermont Public Radio ↗
  • Who funds NOISE POLLUTION CLEARINGHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
  • Who funds The International Friends of the Marciana Library Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GENIUS RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds 350ORG ↗
  • Who funds Davidson College ↗
  • Who funds INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds NSA FOUNDATION 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.

United Way of Central…Lilly Endowment IncThe Robert Wood Johns…Central Indiana Commu…Griffith Family Found…The Brave Heart Found…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Berkshire Taconic Com…National Philanthropi…The Indianapolis Foun…The Ayco Charitable F…The Ford Foundation
United Way of Central Indiana IncIN16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Ford 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 Cream Hill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cream Hill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Cornwall Conservation Trust Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Connecticut Forest & Park Association: 16% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
  • American Whitewater: 5% of income from government
  • Noise Pollution Clearinghouse Inc: 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Als One Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • The Fessenden School: 0% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 108 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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