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The Hillier Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8.6M
Granted FY2022
108
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.

Education$3.4MHuman Services$1.7MHealth$797kEnvironment$603kPublic Safety & Disaster$489kArts & Culture$488kHousing & Shelter$440kAnimals$341kOther$0
02FY2022 · 108 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k29 grants · $142k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $940k
  • $50k–250k32 grants · $3.5M
  • $250k+7 grants · $4.0M
$30,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLICE LLOYD COLLEGE$1,005,000
SUMMIT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$800,000
THE VILLAGE OF ST EDWARD FOUNDATION$600,000
ST LUKE LUTHERAN COMMUNITY$500,000
BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER$450,000
CONSERVANCY FOR C V NATIONAL PARK$375,000
HAPPY TRAILS FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY$310,000
THE SALVATION ARMY OF WADSWORTH$220,000
SHARON COMMUNITY TRUSTS$210,000
THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM$200,000
PBS WESTERN RESERVE$200,000
OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$200,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS$200,000
STEWART'S CARING PLACE$175,000
THE SALVATION ARMY OF WADSWORTH$170,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SANTA'S HIDE-A-WAY HALLOW: $50k → 6%CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $15k → 13%CHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS: $10k → 13%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $5k → 13%VANTAGE AGING: $100k → 13%VANTAGE AGING: $10k → 13%VANTAGE AGING: $10k → 13%LOVE INC: $20k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY: $45k → 13%OPEN M: $18k → 13%OPEN M: $10k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY: $5k → 13%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AKRON: $50k → 13%THE VILLAGE OF ST EDWARD FOUNDATION: $600k → 13%BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $450k → 13%BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER: $16k → 13%BATTERED WOMENS SHELTER: $15k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.0M · 37 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

37 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 66 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
3

Total granted

$5.0M
$32k

Still filing today

65%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • AL
    ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +78%
  • SC
    SUMMIT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $823k · revenue +113% · 34% of their budget
  • SC
    SHARON COMMUNITY TRUSTS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $219k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • OM
    OHIO MASONIC HOME FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
2
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…

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3
Scioto Paint Valley Mental Health Center

To provide mental health, substance abuse, and integrated care services to residents of ross, pike, pickaway, fayette, and highland counties in ohio.

Health
4
Community Support Services Inc

Serves as a safety net for those summit county residents who are most in need of behavioral health services as a result of severe and persistent mental illness the agency proveides comprehensive, high quality, cost-effective treatment,…

Health
5
Ohio Living Quaker Heights

To provide older adults with caring and quality services toward the enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well being consistent with the christian gospel.

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6
Friendship Village of Columbus Ohio Inc

To promote independence, wellness and community for older adults in an active and friendly continuing-care environment.

Human Services
7
Ashland Assisted Living Inc

To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…

Human Services
8
Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence

To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…

Human Services
9
Mount Carmel Health System

We, mount carmel health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mount carmel health system is a member of trinity health.

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10
Southeastern Ohio Center for Independent Living

Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.

Human Services
11
Ohio Hills Health Services

Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…

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12
Hospice of Central Ohio

Patients of hospice of central ohio receive compassionate, individualized end-of-life care. their desires guide the physical, emotional, and spiritual care support we provide. members of our community, patient's families, children, and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of Summit County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cliffside Artists Collaborative 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal History and Conservat…Regional Economic Developme…Youth Sports ClubsYouth Development and Enric…Disability Services & Housi…Community Arts CentersDiverse Community ServicesSenior Care ServicesAkron Community DevelopmentBehavioral Health & Recover…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr13%13%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr18%24%35–55yr18%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr13%6%5–10yr18%6%10–20yr15%32%20–35yr18%29%35–55yr18%27%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/73
the rest of the field
13%
2,150/16,749

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.

04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 107 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
38/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY OF WADSWORTH — $520,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY OF WADSWORTHST LUKE LUTHERAN COMMUNITY — $500,000 · OtherST LUKE LUTHERAN COMMUNITYCONSERVANCY FOR C V NATIONAL PARK — $375,000 · OtherCONSERVANCY FOR C V NATIONAL PARKNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS — $210,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC — $160,000 · OtherMEDINA COUNTY FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION — $150,000 · OtherTHE HOLDEN ARBORETUM — $200,000 · OtherMEDINA CREATIVE HOUSING INC — $136,500 · Other+58 more — $1,711,774 · Other+58 moreALICE LLOYD COLLEGE — $1,015,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD COLLEGESUMMIT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $822,750 · EducationSUMMIT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $200,000 · EducationOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYOhio Northern University — $150,000 · EducationOhio Northern University+3 more — $145,000 · Education+3 moreVILLAGE AT ST EDWARD FOUNDATION — $600,000 · Human ServicesVILLAGE AT ST EDW…HOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER — $481,000 · Human ServicesHOPE AND HEALING …VANTAGE AGING — $120,000 · Human ServicesVANTAGE AGINGINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AKRON INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesSANTAS HIDE-A-WAY HOLLOW — $50,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC — $50,000 · Human Services+4 more — $78,000 · Human Services+4 moreSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY — $186,000 · HealthSHELTER CARE INC — $130,000 · HealthRECOVERY CENTER OF MEDINA COUNTY — $55,800 · HealthThe Lettuce Work Foundation Inc — $45,000 · HealthAUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER AKRON — $34,000 · HealthALTERNATIVE PATHS INC — $18,290 · Health+5 more — $36,000 · HealthHAPPY TRAILS FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $331,000 · Animals+2 more — $10,000 · AnimalsNORTHEASTERN EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION OF OHIO INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureCUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · Arts & CultureACCESS THE ARTS INC — $22,000 · Arts & CultureCLIFFSIDE ARTISTS COLLABORATIVE INC — $20,400 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSHARON COMMUNITY TRUSTS — $219,000 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,963,274Education$2,332,750Human Services$1,429,000Health$505,090Animals$341,000Arts & Culture$337,400Philanthropy$246,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE — $1,015,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetSUMMIT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $822,750 over 3y, 34% of budgetVILLAGE AT ST EDWARD FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetHOPE AND HEALING SURVIVOR RESOURCE CENTER — $481,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetHAPPY TRAILS FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $331,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetSHARON COMMUNITY TRUSTS — $219,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetTHE HOLDEN ARBORETUM — $200,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNORTHEASTERN EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION OF OHIO INC — $200,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY — $186,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC — $160,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetOhio Northern University — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDINA CREATIVE HOUSING INC — $136,500 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetSHELTER CARE INC — $130,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetVANTAGE AGING — $120,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSHARON TOWNSHIP FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION — $101,000 over 2y, 78% of budgetSTARK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetRECOVERY CENTER OF MEDINA COUNTY — $55,800 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCUYAHOGA FALLS PARTNERSHIP FOR PARKS — $55,000 over 1y, 87% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MEDINA COUNTY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AKRON INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUYAHOGA VALLEY ART CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSAFETY FORCES SUPPORT CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetThe Lettuce Work Foundation Inc — $45,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetNewbridge Place — $43,500 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetBrunswick Rotary Foundation Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER AKRON — $34,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetTUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCROWN POINT ECOLOGY CENTER — $27,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD GUIDANCE & FAMILY SOLUTIONS — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLIFFSIDE ARTISTS COLLABORATIVE INC — $20,400 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetALTERNATIVE PATHS INC — $18,290 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGirls on the Run of Greater Summit Girls on the Run of Northeast Ohio — $11,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MEDINA COUNTY — $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUNT SUSIE'S CANCER WELLNESS CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT — $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKATIE'S KROPS — $6,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Akron Community Found…Sisler McFawn Foundat…The Welty Family Foun…Charles E and Mabel M…L R Moffitt & L W Mof…W Paul Mills & Thora …Mary S & David C Corb…Lehner Family Foundat…Lloyd L & Louise K Sm…Glenn R & Alice V Bog…United Way of Summit …Gar Foundation
Akron Community FoundationOH62× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Akron Community Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · The Welty Family Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial · United Way of Summit and Medina · Gar Foundation

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 Hillier 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Hillier Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Hillier Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 107 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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