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The Hilibrand Foundation at a glance

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The Hilibrand 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$148k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Science & Tech$3.4MHealth$1.3MEducation$947kFood & Nutrition$786kPublic Benefit$585kPhilanthropy$521kCrime & Legal$495kSocial Science$390kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $383k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $841k
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$148,350
FEEDING AMERICA$100,000
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE$90,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$86,000
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$75,000
AUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION$72,500
CATO INSTITUTE$60,000
ABILIS$55,860
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$53,144
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$50,000
DOROT$50,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH$25,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$25,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$25,000
YANKEE INSTITUTE$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $276k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOUTH TO HAND PARENT ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $1k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%DOROT: $50k → 17%DOROT: $50k → 17%DOROT: $50k → 17%DOROT: $50k → 17%DOROT: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MO
VA
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 43 repeat orgs$342k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
19

Total granted

$10M
$241k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+69%

Still filing today

72%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCivil RightsInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AS
    AUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $604k · revenue +167%
  • Feeding America
    6× · 2020–2025 · $550k · revenue +40%
  • AI
    ABILIS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $511k · revenue +164%

Funded once

  • LE
    LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +69%
  • CH
    CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • A
    ADL
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Institute for Protein Innovation Inc

The institute for protein innovation is advancing protein science to accelerate research and improve human health.

Health
5
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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6
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
7
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
8
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
University of New Haven

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…

Education
11
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Next for Autism Inc; the most unlike its peers is Communication 4 All Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 69 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
33/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIT: $3,410,520 · OtherMITIndividual grant recipient: $930,580 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $390,000 · OtherAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCHDOROT INC: $250,000 · Other+37 more: $1,237,754 · Other+37 moreAUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $603,500 · HealthAUTISM SCIEN…ABILIS INC: $510,736 · HealthABILIS INCINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR AUTISM RESEARCH: $45,000 · Health+7 more: $43,000 · HealthSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $435,000 · EducationSUCCESS A…University of Chicago: $300,000 · EducationUniversit…COMMUNICATION 4 ALL INC: $110,000 · EducationCOMMUNICA…+4 more: $40,500 · EducationFeeding America: $550,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $95,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $90,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $2,500 · Food & NutritionINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $495,000 · Civil RightsSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $30,000 · Civil RightsInternational Association for Spelling as Communication: $21,000 · Civil RightsUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $492,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $28,500 · PhilanthropyCATO INSTITUTE: $410,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $60,000 · Public Benefit
Other$6,218,854Health$1,202,236Education$885,500Food & Nutrition$737,500Civil Rights$546,000Philanthropy$520,500Public Benefit$470,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $603,500 over 9y, 10% of budgetFeeding America: $550,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetABILIS INC: $510,736 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $495,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $492,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $435,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $410,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $390,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $300,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetYANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $115,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNICATION 4 ALL INC: $110,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $95,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $90,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetLOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYES SHE CAN INCORPORATED: $57,750 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetCHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR AUTISM RESEARCH: $45,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $28,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Association for Spelling as Communication: $21,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNICATION FIRST: $8,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPAPANICOLAOU CORPS FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEXT FOR AUTISM INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMouth to Hand Parent Association Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL ELWYN: $360 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEAN F HOGAN SR FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 AUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds ABILIS INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds DOROT INC ↗
  • Who funds YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNICATION 4 ALL INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds YES SHE CAN INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR AUTISM RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds International Association for Spelling as Communication ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundFjcThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Renaissance Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…Donor Advised Charita…Network for Good
Jewish Communal FundNY13.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Hilibrand Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hilibrand Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • Abilis Inc: 74% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Connecticut Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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