· Private foundation
The Hilltop 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.
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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k17 grants · $290k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| READYKIDS | $50,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC | $25,000 |
| COMPUTERS4KIDS | $25,000 |
| PARAMOUNT THEATER | $25,000 |
| WOMEN'S INITIATIVE | $25,000 |
| APPALACHIAN VOICES | $20,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $20,000 |
| PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| VIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| WILDROCK | $15,000 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE | $15,000 |
| VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $540k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
27 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 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
- RIREADYKIDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $540k · revenue +31%
- BRBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $245k · revenue +51%
- CCOMPUTERS4KIDS9× · 2017–2025 · $245k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2017 · $150k
- CBCHARLOTTESVILLE BALLET ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $15k
- UWUNITED WAYone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
Startup virginia is a non-profit, high-growth-business incubator, dedicated to building a long-term, sustainable economy for virginia. we connect our startup community to exceptional mentors and extensive programs in a dynamic workspace.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…
The charlottesville regional chamber of commerce is a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of the commonwealth of virginia for the purpose of representing private enterprise, promoting business, economic growth and vitality, and…
Virginia Interfaith Power & Light collaborates among people of faith and conscience to grow healthy communities by advancing climate and environmental education.
Vcpp operates wrir 97.3 lpfm, a community low power fm radio station serving citizens of the city of richmond, virginia, and surrounding counties. the station covers a listening area of approximately 5-7 miles. wrir broadcasts news, views…
Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charlottesville Free Clinic and the most unlike its peers is Virginia Institute of Autism Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 30 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 READYKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds COMPUTERS4KIDS ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN VOICES ↗
- Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds WILDROCK INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds WorkSource Enterprises ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · The Rimora Foundation · The Genan Foundation · Caplin Foundation · The Farkas Family Foundation · Leaw Family Foundation Inc · The Charles Fund Inc · Westwind Foundation · The Hartfield Fdn Inc 0739-80-42
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 Hilltop 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.
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.