· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CEN | $100,000 |
| THE PEACEFUL PRESENCE PROJECT | $51,875 |
| MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| Rush University Medical Center | $50,000 |
| MGH INTITUTE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS | $50,000 |
| BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION | $50,000 |
| THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +26% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
74 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. 74 of the 150 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 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 CAREOREGON INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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