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The Hiller Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
53% of The Hiller Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Greater Metrowest Nj, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Hiller Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $136k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k13 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHABAD OF GREATER SOMERSET COUNTY | $50,000 |
| OVERLOOK FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NEW JERSEY | $25,000 |
| THE PINGRY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BRIS AVROHOM CENTER | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL | $3,540 |
| SUMMIT JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $3,160 |
| FOUNDATION OF MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER | $2,500 |
| CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF MONROE | $2,500 |
| VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF NJ | $2,250 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF CENTRAL NEW JERSEY | $2,200 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $1,500 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN STLOUIS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| GOLDA OCH ACADEMY | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
30 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2023, 18 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- RCRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA8× · 2017–2025 · $212k · revenue +179%
- OFOVERLOOK FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2023 · $35k · revenue +47%
- RHRutgers Hillel Corporation5× · 2017–2022 · $14k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- ISINTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES FOR YAD YASHEM INCone grant, 2017 · $10k
- AAALBANIAN AMERICAN WOMENS ORGone grant, 2019 · $5k
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
To provide religious education and services to our students in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Jcc metrowest's vision is to be the premier jewish social, recreational, cultural, and educational center that serves the entire metrowest community and inspires every individual to explore the boundless potential of judaism. (continued on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest Nj and the most unlike its peers is The Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 51 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ ↗
- Who funds RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds OVERLOOK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds CURE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rutgers Hillel Corporation ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST RESOURCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VALERIE FUND ↗
- Who funds HOME OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC FORMERLY INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
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: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Verizon Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Hiller Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Rabbinical College of America — 5% of income from government
- Summit Downtown Inc — 2% of income from government
- Golda Och Academy — 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.
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