· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $165k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $361k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $63,000 |
| THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $50,000 |
| EVERY ORPHAN'S HOPE | $30,000 |
| YES TO YOUTH - MCYS | $15,000 |
| ANGEL REACH | $15,000 |
| JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| THE BRIDGE | $15,000 |
| MOVE UNITED | $15,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $13,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $13,000 |
| CAJUN RELIEF FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COMP-U-DOPT | $10,000 |
| BEYOND BATTEN DISEASE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COMPASSION UNITED | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL VIRGINIA BATTLEFIELDS TRUST | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE5× · 2020–2024 · $153k · revenue +106%
- EOEVERY ORPHANS HOPE5× · 2020–2024 · $137k · revenue +14%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS4× · 2021–2024 · $83k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- KMKIDS' MEALS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +106%
The Houston Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +36%- MRMATTHEW RESNICK SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2022 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…
Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization thatadvances Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs,partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our…
Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.
To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…
Texas water foundation is a statewide nonprofit that provides educational resources and educational services on water in texas for decision makers, water professionals, and everyday texans. texas water foundation works in the areas of…
The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food…
Amazing Place empowers families facing the challenges of dementia and Alzheimer's and advances brain health for all. The Organization serves adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild to moderate dementia, caregiving families and…
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inspiration Ranch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bamberger Ranch Preserve. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 95 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds EVERY ORPHANS HOPE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds ANGEL REACH ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BLANDFORD CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VIRGINIA BATTLEFIELDS TRUST ↗
- Who funds JEB STUART BIRTHPLACE PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion United ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HOPES PATH ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY WOMENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT DELAWARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INSPIRATION RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds CASA Child Advocates of Montgomery County Inc ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BATTEN DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Orphan Outreach ↗
- Who funds Houston Public Media Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VAQUERO LEGACY PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST DOMINIC VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds COMP-U-DOPT INC ↗
- Who funds GODS DAILY WORD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TEXAS NEW COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS MASTER GARDENER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Hillcrest Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Fort Delaware Society — 35% of income from government
- Move United — 16% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.