· Private foundation
The Hilliard Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOTHILLS TRAIL CONFERENCE | $50,000 |
| MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| CABARRUS ARTS COUNCIL | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 13% 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FTFOOTHILLS TRAIL CONSERVANCY INC5× · 2017–2024 · $109k · revenue +206% · 30% of their budget
- MVMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +43%
- CACabarrus Arts Council7× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- FUFURMAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +43%
- AUANDERSON UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +42%
- SPSOAPSTONE PRESERVATION ENDOWMENT INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
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 gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
Fayetteville academy is an independent, college preparatory school (prek- 12) that encourages students to achieve their full potential by offering exceptional opportunities in academics, fine arts, and athletics. the academy emphasizes…
Charleston stage's vision is to be a leading professional theater company, engaging the broad community through high quality productions, with leading artists, and excellent production values. the organization provides the community access…
To provide an enriching and challenging curriculum and educational community which encourages students to be life-long learners, develop strong character, serve their community, and deepen their faith.
The mission of the metropolitan arts council is to stimulate and support artistic expression and its appreciation and enjoyment in ways that enrich all citizens, artists, cultural organizations, and communities of greenville county. we…
Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.
The mission of green hill center for nc art is to promote the visual arts of north carolina by engaging a broad community of artists, adults and children through dynamic exhibitions and educational programs while providing a platform for…
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
Redux contemporary art center is committed to fostering creativity and the cultivation of contemporary art through diverse exhibitions, affordable studio space for visual artists, meaningful education and outreach programs, and a…
Public works art center is an intentionally inclusive cultural hub and creative incubator. here, artists and visitors of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities showcase and learn a variety of artistic disciplines, connecting with themselves…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sc Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Junior Achievement of Greater South Carolina Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 28 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 FOOTHILLS TRAIL CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cabarrus Arts Council ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOAPSTONE PRESERVATION ENDOWMENT INC ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds SC GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jubilee Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds CALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CONGAREE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA CHILDRENS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Asheville Art Museum Association Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY FNDN ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA 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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Maddrey Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · United Community Bank Foundation · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · Prisma Health-Upstate · Prisma Health · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina
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 Hilliard Family Foundation Inc 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.
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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