New York · Private foundation
The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2024
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $876,505
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 50
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 20
- Total assets, FY2024
- $110M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $528k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 35 | $2.0M | 37% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $2.7M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $3.4M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $4.2M | 39% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $4.4M | 42% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $4.3M | 52% |
| FY2018 | 44 | $4.6M | 48% |
| FY2017 | 35 | $3.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $3,607,809 | 8 | n/a |
| Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc | $2,407,000 | 7 | 1% |
| University of Utah | $950,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Johns Hopkins University | $860,825 | 4 | 0% |
| Regents Univ of California | $657,607 | 4 | n/a |
| Community of Hope | $600,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Henry Ford Health System | $599,999 | 3 | 0% |
| American Nurses Foundation Inc | $579,651 | 8 | 4% |
| National Nurse-Led Care Consortium | $450,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Pennsylvania State University | $375,876 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 69 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The New York Community Trust · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · The John a Hartford Foundation Inc · The Commonwealth Fund · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · AARP · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Chicago Community Trust
How this is measured
Compare The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation with peer funders
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About The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation
- How much does The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation give?
- The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $3,042,242 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 50 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (53%), Health (29%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($3.6M), Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc ($2.4M), University of Utah ($950k).
- Does The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
- Where is The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation based?
- The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation is based in NY.
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