· Private foundation
The Hilgos 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Alzheimers Association | $4,500 |
| School of the Art Institute | $4,000 |
| Arts & Minds | $1,180 |
| Tradeoffs | $1,032 |
| Metropolitan Museum | $420 |
| Individual grant recipient | $259 |
| Phillip's Collection | $250 |
| Art Institute of Chicago | $210 |
| Us Against Alzheimers | $204 |
| Filmakers Institute | $150 |
| Institute for Therapy through the Arts | $103 |
| Matthew Ornstein Foundation | $100 |
| Smithsonian Institution | $75 |
| Joan Dancy and Pals | $50 |
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 (FY21–24, $404) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +23% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +40%
- UUSAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +13%
- WTWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC5× · 2018–2024 · $2k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $500
- NWNATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $330 · revenue +27%
AMERICAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $309 · revenue +20%
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.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
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.
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
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…
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
Champion equitable and impactful museums by connecting people, fostering learning and community, and nurturing museum excellence.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 39 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 ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds USAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds TRADEOFFS INC ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LORENZO'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY ↗
- Who funds Hunterdon Art Museum ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR THERAPY THROUGH THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds JOAN DANCY AND P A L S INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT IMPLICIT 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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hilgos Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hilgos Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hunterdon Art Museum: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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