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The Hillcrest Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
68
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$458kHealth$354kReligion$295kArts & Culture$278kEducation$202kInternational$199kFood & Nutrition$154kCrime & Legal$108kOther$0
02FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k35 grants · $165k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $361k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $113k
$9,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$63,000
THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$50,000
EVERY ORPHAN'S HOPE$30,000
JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$15,000
YES TO YOUTH - MCYS$15,000
ANGEL REACH$15,000
MOVE UNITED$15,000
THE BRIDGE$15,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$13,000
SALVATION ARMY$13,000
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON$10,000
CHILD ADVOCATES OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY$10,000
KELSEY RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST$10,000
JEB STUART BIRTHPLACE PRESERVATION TRUST INC$10,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LITTLE DRESSES FOR AFRICA: $6k → 21%LITTLE DRESSES FOR AFRICA: $3k → 21%LITTLE DRESSES FOR AFRICA: $3k → 21%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 16%GOD'S GARAGE INC: $5k → 9%GOD'S GARAGE INC: $5k → 9%GOD'S GARAGE INC: $5k → 9%GOD'S GARAGE INC: $3k → 9%FRIENDS FOR WISHES: $3k → 16%MONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 9%MONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 9%MONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 9%HOPE'S PATH: $10k → 9%HOPE'S PATH: $10k → 9%HOPE'S PATH: $10k → 9%HOPE'S PATH: $5k → 9%HOPE'S PATH: $5k → 9%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $5k → 16%ANGEL REACH: $15k → 9%ANGEL REACH: $13k → 9%ANGEL REACH: $13k → 9%ANGEL REACH: $10k → 9%ANGEL REACH: $7k → 9%GOD'S GARAGE: $5k → 9%KIDS MEALS INC: $10k → 16%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

MN
MI
MA
PA
CA
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
KS
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
TX
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 76 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
12

Total granted

$2.3M
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
-7%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $153k · revenue +106%
  • EO
    EVERY ORPHANS HOPE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $137k · revenue +14%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $83k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • KM
    KIDS' MEALS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +106%
  • The Houston Food Bankgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +36%
  • MR
    MATTHEW RESNICK SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $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
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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2
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
3
Houston Museum of Natural Science

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

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.

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5
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

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…

Philanthropy
6
Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas

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…

Environment
7
Lone Star Flight Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
8
The Houston Audubon Society

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…

Environment
9
Texas Water Foundation

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…

Environment
10
Target Hunger Inc

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…

Human Services
11
Houston's Amazing Place Inc

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…

Human Services
12
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inspiration Ranch Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 95 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/56
Grantees still filing
39/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PATRICK C WALSH PROSTATE BRADY UROLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $62,000 · OtherLAURA BUSH INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH: $52,000 · OtherST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $47,500 · OtherHISTORIC BLANDFORD CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Other+60 more: $1,096,100 · Other+60 moreTHE BRIDGE: $73,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGEANGEL REACH: $57,000 · Human ServicesANGEL REACHCompassion United: $43,000 · Human ServicesCompassion UnitedHOPES PATH: $40,000 · Human ServicesHOPES PATHINSPIRATION RANCH INC: $36,500 · Human ServicesINSPIRATION RANCH…TEXAS NEW COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $25,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS NEW COMMUNI…Gods Garage Inc: $23,000 · Human ServicesGods Garage IncHouston Area Women's Center: $23,000 · Human ServicesHouston Area Wome…MONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES: $15,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $13,000 · Human Services+4 more: $36,000 · Human Services+4 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $153,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PU…EVERY ORPHANS HOPE: $137,000 · ReligionEVERY ORPHANS …GODS DAILY WORD MINISTRIES: $28,000 · ReligionGODS DAILY WOR…+1 more: $1,400 · ReligionJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS: $83,000 · Recreation & SportsHOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC: $41,000 · Recreation & SportsMOVE UNITED: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL VIRGINIA BATTLEFIELDS TRUST: $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM: $42,500 · Arts & CultureHouston Public Media Foundation: $30,500 · Arts & CultureAmerican Battlefield Trust: $20,000 · Arts & CultureJEB STUART BIRTHPLACE PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $45,000 · EnvironmentGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $38,000 · EnvironmentBEYOND BATTEN DISEASE FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationCOMP-U-DOPT INC: $30,000 · EducationTurtle Wing Foundation: $8,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $7,500 · Education
Other$1,302,600Human Services$384,500Religion$319,400Recreation & Sports$139,000Arts & Culture$138,000Environment$83,000Education$80,500

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 budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $153,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY ORPHANS HOPE: $137,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS: $83,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BRIDGE: $73,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetANGEL REACH: $57,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHISTORIC BLANDFORD CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 5y, 51% of budgetCENTRAL VIRGINIA BATTLEFIELDS TRUST: $45,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetJEB STUART BIRTHPLACE PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $45,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetCompassion United: $43,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM: $42,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC: $41,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOPES PATH: $40,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY WOMENS CENTER: $39,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $38,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFORT DELAWARE SOCIETY: $37,500 over 5y, 21% of budgetINSPIRATION RANCH INC: $36,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCASA Child Advocates of Montgomery County Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBEYOND BATTEN DISEASE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetOrphan Outreach: $34,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHouston Public Media Foundation: $30,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $30,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST DOMINIC VILLAGE: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVAQUERO LEGACY PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetCOMP-U-DOPT INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGODS DAILY WORD MINISTRIES: $28,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetTEXAS NEW COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGods Garage Inc: $23,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center: $23,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKelsey Research Foundation: $22,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TLC FOUNDATION FOR BODY-FOCUSED REPETITIVE BEHAVIORS: $22,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetANDREW S RODDICK FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY MASTER GARDENER ASSOCIATION INC: $19,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOVE UNITED: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE DRESSES FOR AFRICA: $11,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetLighthouse For The Blind Of Houston Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBamberger Ranch Preserve: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS FOR WISHES: $9,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTurtle Wing Foundation: $8,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $7,500 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.

  • 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 HOPES PATH ↗
  • Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
  • 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 ST DOMINIC VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds VAQUERO LEGACY PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…Strake FoundationThe Arena Energy Foun…Montgomery County Com…Marek Family Foundati…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Junior League of the …Harry S & Isabel C Ca…United Way of Greater…Baker Hughes Foundati…Wcn Cares
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX26.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Fort Delaware Society: 35% of income from government
  • Move United: 16% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 95 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home