· Private foundation
The Gerhard and Diane Hill Charitable Foundation
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of THE GERHARD AND DIANE HILL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE WOODLANDS METHODIST CHURCH | $16,325 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS MONTGOMERY COUNTY | $10,331 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $8,750 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK | $4,100 |
| TEMPLE COMMUNITY CLINIC CARING BALL | $3,000 |
| COMPASSION UNITED INC | $2,540 |
| STUDENT MOBILIZATION | $1,950 |
| UM ARMY | $1,456 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,040 |
| HOUSTON GRAND OPERA SOCIETY | $887 |
| HOUSTON SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $732 |
| MOODY GARDENS ATTRACTIONS THEME PARK | $680 |
| SPACE CENTER HOUSTON | $208 |
| GALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION | $175 |
| 3RD ON MAIN KITCHEN | $162 |
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, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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 +28% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 11 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- MCMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +30%
- CUCompassion United4× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +30%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- WUWOODLANDS UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $17k
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF BELL COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +135%
- ARALPHA RHO MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -61%
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Harmonia Stellarum is an ensemble of professional vocalists and instrumentalists specialized in historically informed performance practice who seek to inspire, entertain, and enlighten audiences with meaningful, historically informed…
The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The Club's mission is to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening and to protect the quality of the environment through programs and action in the fields of education, conservation, and civic improvement.
The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…
None
To completely restore Houston Freedmen's Town as a heritage district that provides America with its only Freedmen's Town.
To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.
Houston MediaSource aspires to be the community media center for the City of Houston. HMS provides public access to media platforms that promote citizen engagement, protect the right to free expression, and provide opportunities to advance…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montgomery County Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Moody Gardens Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 45 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 MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS MONTGOMERY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Compassion United ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds COPPELL LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF BELL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA RHO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOODY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds UM ARMY INC ↗
- Who funds MANNED SPACE FLIGHT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Gerhard and Diane Hill Charitable Foundation 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.