Texas · Private foundation
The Hillcrest Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $639k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2024
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $9,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $63,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 57 to 67
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations The Hillcrest Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 68 | $639k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 67 | $498k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 64 | $465k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $425k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 57 | $420k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samaritan's Purse | $153,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Every Orphans Hope | $137,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Jewish Community Center of Dallas | $83,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Bridge | $73,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Angel Reach | $57,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Historic Blandford Cemetery Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 5 | 51% |
| Central Virginia Battlefields Trust | $45,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Jeb Stuart Birthplace Preservation Trust Inc | $45,000 | 5 | 18% |
| Compassion United | $43,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The American Civil War Museum | $42,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($602k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Hillcrest Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Arena Energy Foundation · Montgomery County Community Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Junior League of the Woodlands Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · United Way of Greater Houston · Baker Hughes Foundation · Wcn Cares
How this is measured
About The Hillcrest Foundation
- How much does The Hillcrest Foundation give?
- The Hillcrest Foundation reported 68 grants totaling $639,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 67 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Hillcrest Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Health (14%), Religion (12%).
- Who are The Hillcrest Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Samaritan's Purse ($153k), Every Orphans Hope ($137k), Jewish Community Center of Dallas ($83k).
- Does The Hillcrest Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hillcrest Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hillcrest Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Strake Foundation.
- Where is The Hillcrest Foundation based?
- The Hillcrest Foundation is based in TX.
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