· Private foundation
The Hillis 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $10,000 |
| MORTON PLANT HEALTH CARE FUND | $5,500 |
| GENESIS CLUB | $5,000 |
| CLEARWATER FREE CLINIC | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC | $3,000 |
| MONADOCK COMMUNITY HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| SEVEN HILLS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE | $2,000 |
| DETECTOGETHER | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HHHeywood Healthcare Inc3× · 2018–2020 · $190k · revenue ×473
- CFClearwater Free Clinic Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $38k · revenue +146%
- VIVETERANS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $34k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- MFMPM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $53k
- HHHEYWOOD HEALTHCAREATHOL HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $51k
- YYMCAone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
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.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Tertiary care academic medical center
Centering on a concept and continuum of care that embraces the health, well-being and dignity of each patient, regardless of their ability to pay, northeast hospital corporation (nhc) has four facilities, beverly hospital, addison gilbert…
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Mission: to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve. values: humanity, innovation, teamwork, diversity and equity - our values define our philosophy of care. they shape our actions and motivate and…
THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 51 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Heywood Healthcare Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BLESSINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Clearwater Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STONEHILL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Morton Plant Mease Health Care Inc ↗
- Who funds Home HealthCare Hospice & Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ADEPT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN SKY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND PGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Monadnock Community Hospital ↗
- Who funds Community Dental Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds GAVIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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.
Open a dossier: Coghlin Services Fund · The George I Alden Trust · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Coghlin Family Foundation · The White Companies Charitable Trust · The Fletcher Foundation · Fallon Community Health Plan Inc · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Health Resources in Action Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hillis Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hillis Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Veterans Inc: 58% of income from government
- Riverside Community Care Inc: 58% of income from government
- Open Sky Community Services Inc: 48% of income from government
- Gavin Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- The Sisters of Saint Ann Inc: 2% of income from government
- Endicott College: 1% of income from government
- Merrimack College: 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
- Stonehill College Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Morton Plant Mease Health Care Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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