· Private foundation
The Margaret and Al Hill Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
67% of The Margaret and Al Hill Family Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Pikes Peak Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Margaret and Al Hill Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $330k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION | $79,955 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN FIELD INSTITUTE INC | $50,000 |
| GARDEN OF THE GODS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| US OLYMPIC & PARA-LYMPIC MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $25,000 |
| VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,045 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS | $20,000 |
| COLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| INCLINE FRIENDS | $15,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE PIKES PEAK | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MOUNTAIN RESCUE | $10,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA | $10,000 |
| PIKES PEAK AREA CRIMESTOPPERS | $10,000 |
| TESSA | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 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
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION7× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +84%
- TTESSA6× · 2018–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +1%
- RMRocky Mountain Field Institute Inc2× · 2018–2022 · $100k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- FTFOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE)graduatedone grant, 2020 · $32k · revenue +45%
- UDUCCS Development Corpgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue ×979
- CHCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -27%
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.
The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.
Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau's, now doing business as Visit Colorado Springs (VCOS), primary exempt purpose is promotion of the Pikes Peak Region. VCOS is designed to stimulate the visitor industry in the Pikes Peak…
To raise funds and acquire assets, both real and personal, that will provide financial assistance to the Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra.
Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…
Estes Park Health Foundation increases community awareness of Estes Park Health (EPH). The Foundation develops, manages, and distributes funds to assist them in fulfilling their mission.
To develop and increase charitable giving that connects donors to community needs in Southwest Colorado and to support the nonprofit sector through granting and educational opportunities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pikes Peak Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Incline Friends. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 41 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 PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
- Who funds TESSA ↗
- Who funds Friends of Mountain Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds Incline Friends ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Field Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SILVER KEY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Garden of the Gods Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE) ↗
- Who funds United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds UCCS Development Corp ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Betty Ford Alpine Gardens ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK AREA CRIME STOPPERS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of the Pikes Peak Region ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE CHANDA PLAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO ↗
- Who funds TRI-LAKES CARES ↗
- Who funds Community Partnership for Child Development ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds Colorado Springs Youth Sports Complex Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION ↗
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: El Pomar Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Ent Credit Union · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · T Rowe Price Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · Pikes Peak United Way · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · The Marson 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 Margaret and Al Hill Family 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.
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