· Private foundation
The Hilliard Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $247k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELMIRA COLLEGE | $75,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN TIER | $50,000 |
| TANGLEWOOD NATURE CENTER | $50,000 |
| ELMIRA COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| QUARRY FARM FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| YWCA ELMIRA & THE TWIN TIERS | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA | $20,000 |
| CLEMENS CENTER | $15,000 |
| THE ART COUNCIL OF THE SOUTHERN FINGER LAKES | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL SOARING MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE SOUTHERN TIER | $15,000 |
| ELDRIDGE PARK CAROUSEL PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC | $13,000 |
| CHEMUNG COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $12,000 |
| CORNING-ELMIRA MUSICAL ARTS INC | $12,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +4% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- ECELMIRA COLLEGE3× · 2021–2025 · $260k · revenue +18%
- CACOMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA INC4× · 2021–2025 · $76k · revenue +265% · 30% of their budget
- YWYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ELMIRA AND THE TWIN TIERS INC3× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- JWJOHN W JONES MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +304%
American Diabetes Associationone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CHEMUNGone grant, 2021 · $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.
Museum provides general public with displays and information about the history of Fulton County New York.
The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.
The History Center in Tompkins County, Inc. is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to preserve and encourage access to its unique collections, while designing learning experiences and services that create opportunities for people to…
The Museum's mission is to encourage and promote the appreciation of fine art to people in its surrounding communities and beyond. The Museum is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the arts, with particular emphasis on the…
The Historical Society of Rockland County is a museum and educational organization dedicated to engaging diverse audiences in a dynamic dialogue about the rich historical heritage of the county.
Provide various educational, cultural, and museum programs and services to area residents and tourists in order to promote an appreciation of ontario county, ny.
The society's mission is to preserve the past of oneida county and central new york for present and future generations. the society seeks to make this rich heritage readily available to researchers, families and students, enhancing the…
Operation of a historical museum. provide education to adults and children about the history of the seneca river and its importance in the industrialization of seneca county
The organization operates a historical society and three museums as well as a library for historical research.
The herschell carousel factory museum, operated by the carousel society of the niagara frontier, is a premier national historic site and community resource for family recreation that fosters an appreciation for the unique heritage of the…
The mission of the erie art museum is to promote and advance the visual arts by maintaining a quality art collection, by encouraging art in all its forms, by fostering lifelong art learning, and by building community among artists, art…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chemung County Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Rockwell Museum. 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 33 years old; the field is 32. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 39 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 ELMIRA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS OF ELMIRA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOARING MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ELMIRA AND THE TWIN TIERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS COUNCIL OF THE SOUTHERN FINGER LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds QUARRY FARM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHEMUNG COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of the Southern Tier Inc ↗
- Who funds CORNING ELMIRA MUSICAL ARTS INC ORCHESTRA OF THE SOUTHERN FINGER LAKES ↗
- Who funds Family Service Society Inc ↗
- Who funds HORSEHEADS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE POTTERS HANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF EAGLES DISCOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ELDRIDGE PARK CAROUSEL PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ONE SEVENTY ONE CEDAR INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKWELL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHEMUNG RIVER WATERSHED INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN W JONES MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD TRANSFORMATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMPLIFY EQUITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHEMUNG VALLEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WOODLAWN CEMETERY OFELMIRA 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: Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes Inc · Douglas G Anderson Leigh R Evans Foundation · The Anderson Foundation Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · United Way of the Southern Tier Inc · The Triangle Fund · Tioga Downs Regional Community Foundation Inc · The Tripp Foundation Inc · Bobbie and John G Ullman Family Foundation Inc · Panosian Family Foundation Inc · The Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes Inc · JM McDonald Foundation 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 Hilliard 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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