· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $20,000 |
| APPALACHIAN VOICES | $20,000 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE | $15,000 |
| VIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WILDROCK | $15,000 |
| VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM | $10,000 |
| WORKSOURCE ENTERPRISES | $10,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 30 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hilltop Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hilltop Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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