· 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 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
- 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 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +184% since the first grant, against -24% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 34 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 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 Tempting Tables ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Muskegon Conservation Club ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HOSPICE MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PIONEER RESOURCES ↗
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: Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Howmet Aerospace Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hilt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hilt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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