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The Hill Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Hill Family 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.

$302k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.8MHealth$1.6MArts & Culture$131kEnvironment$31kPhilanthropy$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kRecreation & Sports$10kScience & Tech$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL$125,000
MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED$100,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY$25,000
NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL$15,000
ASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC$5,000
NANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION$5,000
SCLERODERMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$5,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY$5,000
10000 DEGREES$4,000
NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC$2,500
NANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOC$2,500
THE GREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE ARC SAN FRANCISCO: $5k → 10%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

VT
MT
MA
CT
CA
CO
NC
DC
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 37 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
16

Total granted

$3.6M
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+5%

Still filing today

73%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $525k · revenue +45%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2023 · $253k · revenue +70%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    2× · 2019–2020 · $200k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • CV
    Cachagua Volunteer Firefighters Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -50%
  • FO
    Friends of Recreation Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -86%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
4
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
5
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
6
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
7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Boston University; the most unlike its peers is Sunday to Sunday Productions. 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

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
33/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL: $817,500 · OtherST MARY'S HIGH SCHOOLMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $600,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $525,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $200,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDNANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $85,000 · Other+13 more: $106,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $200,000 · HealthMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM I…MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: $200,000 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EA…Children's Hospital Corporation: $99,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Co…COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA: $60,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF …MONTAGE HEALTH: $40,000 · HealthMONTAGE HEALTHBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $29,500 · HealthScleroderma Research Foundation: $25,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $25,000 · Health+6 more: $58,500 · Health+6 moreTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $253,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BO…President and Fellows of Middlebury College: $110,000 · EducationPresident and …THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF T…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $26,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNI…10000 DEGREES: $20,500 · EducationSan Francisco Achievers: $18,000 · Education+7 more: $24,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $20,000 · PhilanthropyFriends of Recreation Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $6,000 · PhilanthropyNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyNANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · EnvironmentGREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentCachagua Volunteer Firefighters Inc: $15,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$2,333,500Health$737,000Education$481,500Philanthropy$40,000Arts & Culture$32,000Environment$30,500Public Safety & Disaster$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $525,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $253,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $110,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $99,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONTAGE HEALTH: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $29,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetScleroderma Research Foundation: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetONE MIND: $24,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budget10000 DEGREES: $20,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Achievers: $18,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCachagua Volunteer Firefighters Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCASTING FOR RECOVERY: $12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMeritus College Fund: $12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Recreation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN BONE HEALTH: $7,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC SAN FRANCISCO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAIM Youth Mental Health: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMonterey County Rape Crisis Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKWOOD SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTER AT OAKLAND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIS COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Pebble Beach Company …East Bay Community Fo…The Ayco Charitable F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The San Francisco Fou…Monterey Peninsula Fo…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Boston Foundation IncVanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA18.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Hill Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hill Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in: 9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Regis College: 2% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 55 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 camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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