· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -11% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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,…
How this is measured
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 45 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gerhard and Diane Hill Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gerhard and Diane Hill Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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