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The Piper Hill Foundation Inc

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.

$44k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$186kPhilanthropy$76kEducation$17kYouth Development$12kReligion$9kCommunity Improvement$8kCrime & Legal$8kCivil Rights$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$803k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG SKY ARTS COUNCIL$20,000
STRATTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NJ$5,000
SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER$5,000
WESTON THEATRE COMPANY$5,000
WARREN MILLER PERFORMING ARTS$3,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LIFE CHOICES: $500 → 7%WOMEN RISING: $2k → 14%WOMEN RISING: $2k → 14%WOMEN RISING: $1k → 14%WOMEN RISING: $500 → 14%WOMEN RISING: $500 → 14%WELLNESS IN ACTION: $1k → 10%ROOTS AND WINGS: $1k → 4%WELLNESS IN ACTION: $1k → 10%WELLNESS IN ACTION: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$363k · 22 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
19

Total granted

$363k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+25%

Still filing today

32%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

  • PC
    PG CHAMBERS SCHOOL
    4× · 2019–2022 · $8k · revenue +10%
  • WR
    WOMEN RISING INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +21%
  • HS
    HOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SOMERSET COUNTY YOUTH INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -36%
  • CO
    CASA OF MORRISSUSSEX COUNTIES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Rise for Baby and Family

To support families with young children who experience or are at risk for developmental delays or disabilities and to be a resource and advocate for inclusive early childhood systems throughout the monadnock region.

Human Services
2
Woodstock Community Playschool Inc Dba Rainbow Playschool

Rainbow Playschool is a nonprofit organization in the foothills of Mt. Tom in Woodstock, Vermont. We provide daycare and preschool services, emphasizing play and outdoor education, to children between the ages of 6 weeks and 5 years old.…

Human Services
3
Big Sky Resort Association Inc

Serving as the voice of business, the big sky chamber of commerce champions a healthy economy and works collaboratively with community stakeholders as a conveyor and a catalyst to improve the overall quality of life in the region.

4
Mountain Village Charter School

Mountain Village is a public Nature-based, Montessori school, engaging students in experiences that integrate natural environments with the Montessori curriculum, igniting achievement in academic, social-emotional and physical development.

Education
5
Visit Big Sky

As the community's official destination management and marketing organization, visit big sky leads the development and promotion of authentic tourism experiences through research and stakeholder collaboration to grow big sky's economy…

Community Improvement
6
Park Slope Schoolhouse Child Care Center Inc

Striving to create a caring, diverse, nurturing and stimulating child care environment that provides children the opportunity to grow at their own individual pace.

Human Services
7
Arts Council of Big Sky

To enrich the big sky community through artistic experiences.

8
Green Mountain Childrens Center

Our mission is to unlock the learning potential in every child by providing a safe and nurturing learning environment while supporting working parents and the community.

Community Improvement
9
Mid-Hudson Valley Early Education Center

Develop, maintain, and advance programs to empower children to learn and grow through a variety of learning opportunities and experiences.

Education
10
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
11
A Better Big Sky

A better big sky works to inform and engage montanans on issues related to public education, public lands access, voting rights, the environment, sustainable energy, women's health, tribal sovereignty, access to courts, economic justice,…

Community Improvement
12
Spring Hill Center Dba Spring Hill Children's Center

Spring hill children's center offers year-round nature-based, waldorf-inspired early childhood care programs for ages 3-6 in new hampshire's monadnock region. at spring hill children are given the space and time to truly live into their…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roots & Wings Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Homeless Solutions Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NJ — $47,200 · OtherYOUNG AUDIENCES OF NJSTRATTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $38,000 · OtherSTRATTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONSTRATTON FOUNDATION — $32,000 · OtherSTRATTON FOUNDATIONWESTON THEATRE COMPANY — $30,500 · OtherWESTON THEATRE COMPANYIndividual grant recipient — $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBIG SKY ARTS COUNCIL — $22,500 · OtherBIG SKY ARTS COUNCILWARREN MILLER PERFORMING ARTS — $19,500 · OtherWARREN MILLER PERFORMING ARTS+23 more — $81,635 · Other+23 moreTHE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER — $53,500 · Arts & CultureTHE WESTON PLAYH…SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617 — $5,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN VERMONT…WOMEN RISING INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesWELLNESS IN ACTION — $3,000 · Human ServicesROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Human ServicesLIFE CHOICES INC — $500 · Human ServicesPARK AVENUE FOUNDATION INC — $5,050 · PhilanthropyBIG SKY DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC dba BIG SKY DISCOVERY ACADEMY — $3,000 · EducationMORNINGSTAR LEARNING CENTER INC — $1,000 · EducationSPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Community ImprovementCLUB ESTEEM INC — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $1,000 · Environment
Other$326,335Arts & Culture$58,500Human Services$9,500Philanthropy$5,050Education$4,000Community Improvement$2,000Youth Development$1,000Environment$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER — $53,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF SOMERSET COUNTY YOUTH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetPG CHAMBERS SCHOOL — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARK AVENUE FOUNDATION INC — $5,050 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN RISING INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWELLNESS IN ACTION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBIG SKY DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC dba BIG SKY DISCOVERY ACADEMY — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCLUB ESTEEM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMORNINGSTAR LEARNING CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE CHOICES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 THE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SOMERSET COUNTY YOUTH INC
  • Who funds PG CHAMBERS SCHOOL
  • Who funds PARK AVENUE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WOMEN RISING INC
  • Who funds HOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC
  • Who funds SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617
  • Who funds WELLNESS IN ACTION
  • Who funds BIG SKY DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC dba BIG SKY DISCOVERY ACADEMY
  • Who funds SPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CLUB ESTEEM INC
  • Who funds THE VALERIE FUND
  • Who funds ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MORNINGSTAR LEARNING CENTER INC
  • Who funds BIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION

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.

Spanish Peaks Community FoundationMT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Spanish Peaks Community Foundation · Moonlight Community Foundation · Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · One Valley Community Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Piper Hill Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Women Rising Inc59% of income from government
  • Homeless Solutions Inc6% of income from government
  • The Weston Playhouse Theater0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Piper Hill Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Piper Hill Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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