California · 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.
- $428k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 52% of the organizations The Edward E Hills Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $428k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $134k | 52% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $211k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $283k | 78% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $289k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $100k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $184k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $163k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Maven Project | $185,000 | 4 | 4% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $28,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Best Friends Animal Society | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mercy Ships International | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| You Verse Project | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| San Francisco Ballet Association | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Irondog K9 International Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Francisco Free Clinic | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Edward E Hills Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Edward E Hills Fund
- How much does The Edward E Hills Fund give?
- The Edward E Hills Fund reported 18 grants totaling $428,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Edward E Hills Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (30%), Public Benefit (27%), Education (16%).
- Who are The Edward E Hills Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Maven Project ($185k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($29k), Best Friends Animal Society ($20k).
- Does The Edward E Hills Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Edward E Hills Fund 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 Edward E Hills Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation, Bradford Family Foundation, Seckinger Foundation Corporation.
- Where is The Edward E Hills Fund based?
- The Edward E Hills Fund is based in CA.
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