· Private foundation
The Edward E Hills Fund
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $87k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $300,000 |
| THE MAVEN PROJECT | $35,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $12,000 |
| NOAH'S LOST ARK | $10,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC | $10,000 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTION - STANFORD UNIVE | $10,000 |
| WOODSIDE - PORTOLA VALLEY FIRE FDN | $7,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| IRONDOG K9 INTERNATIONAL INC | $5,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO SPCA ADOPTION CENTER | $5,000 |
| CHIMP HAVEN | $5,000 |
| BABY RHINO RESCUE | $2,500 |
| THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TMTHE MAVEN PROJECT4× · 2021–2025 · $185k · revenue +135%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches4× · 2022–2025 · $29k · revenue +23%
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- AAALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INCone grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue 0%
- AAAnimals' Angels Incorporatedone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +9%
- MOMISSION OF OUR LADY OF MERCYone grant, 2024 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.
Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Rescue farmed animals and inspire people to embrace a plant-based lifestyle.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaqua Animal Refuge Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE MAVEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IRONDOG K9 INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds MUTTVILLE ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds WOODSIDE-PORTOLA VALLEY FIRE PROTECTION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESCUED ANIMALS DBA TIGER CREEK ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Animals' Angels Incorporated ↗
- Who funds CHIMP HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds The American Himalayan Foundation ↗
- Who funds RED BELL RUN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GREYHOUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOST MEADOWS MULE REFUGE ↗
- Who funds John Burton Advocates for Youth ↗
- Who funds BABY RHINO RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Bradford Family Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Joyce a Ward Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Rhm Foundation Inc · Ratna Sabapathy Family Foundation I · Gat Family Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Bernard Weinberg Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Edward E Hills Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.