· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $172k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENN | $876,505 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NC AT CHAPEL HILL | $340,505 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $224,124 |
| RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUE | $200,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $185,411 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard Co | $165,409 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CEN | $100,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| THE PEACEFUL PRESENCE PROJECT | $51,875 |
| MGH INTITUTE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS | $50,000 |
| MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPH | $50,000 |
| Rush University Medical Center | $50,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $243k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +26% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $722k 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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2024 · $861k · revenue +64%- COCOMMUNITY OF HOPE3× · 2021–2023 · $600k · revenue +42%
- HFHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM3× · 2018–2020 · $600k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF PENN SCHOOL OF NUone grant, 2020 · $470k
- PAPROJECT ACCESS OF DURHAM COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $204k · revenue +107%
- HGHIC GRANTEE ARIADNE LABS AUDITone grant, 2019 · $200k
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Kentucky Research Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Peaceful Presence Project. 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 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 150 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds National Nurse-Led Care Consortium ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ACCESS OF DURHAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAREOREGON INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
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: 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
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 Rita and Alex Hillman 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.
- Liberation Programs Inc — 24% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Care Dimensions Inc — 14% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- University of Portland — 1% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
- The Peaceful Presence Project — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Careoregon 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.
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