· Private foundation
The Hilt 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
- Under $10k4 grants · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON | $95,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PLAYHOUSE | $5,000 |
| ARTS COUNCIL OF WHITELAKE | $3,405 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MUSKEGON RESCUE MISSION | $500 |
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 (FY20–24, $350) 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 +184% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- LMLAKESHORE MUSEUM CENTER3× · 2017–2019 · $280k
- MMMUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2017–2023 · $220k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON2× · 2024–2025 · $215k
Funded once
- FCFRAUENTHAL CENTERone grant, 2023 · $25k
- WLWHITE LAKE SAILING SCHOOL INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -51%
- WTWHITEHALL TOWNSHIPone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
Natural and cultural history interpretation and preservation
To preserve, record and maintain the historical information of the area between michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, known as michilimackinac.
The organization is dedicated to preservation of michigan great lakes and waterways, maritime history and culture, and provides maritime education opportunities to the public through permanent and changing exhibits, research library, and…
Maintain historical museum
The mission of the organization is to provide end of life care, support and services to terminally ill patients and their families.
The museum seeks to maintain and preserve the history of the region around moosehead lake through cruises, tours, and charters of the restored, last working lake steamer on moosehead lake.
To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.
To preserve the legacy of the mackinaw wagb 83 and her crew by operating uscgc mackinaw as a museum. this museum collects, preserves, protects and interprets the history of the coast guard presence on the great lakes from the early 1940's…
To teach & perpetuate the history of military accomplishments of citizens of the state of michigan and to maintain a museum for that purpose.
To promote historical study and preserve the lighthouse museum
To operate exclusively for the benefit of Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and transfer to it all amounts received to promote the control of cancer through programs of research, care, detection, prevention, and education.
To receive and administer funds exclusively for the benefit of and further any and all charitable, scientific, and educational activities in which the Mackinac Center, a Michigan nonprofit corporation (DBA Mackinac Center for Public…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harbor Hospice Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tempting Tables. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 34 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WHITE LAKE SAILING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SS MILWAUKEE CLIPPER PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF WHITE LAKE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Tempting Tables ↗
- Who funds Muskegon Conservation Club ↗
- Who funds MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HOSPICE MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PIONEER RESOURCES ↗
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 for Muskegon County · Howmet Aerospace Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Hilt 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.