How much does Thrill Hill Foundation give?

Thrill Hill Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $371,375 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Thrill Hill Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (26%), Food & Nutrition (20%), Philanthropy (12%).

Who are Thrill Hill Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($435k), Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ($305k), The Barack Obama Foundation ($155k).

Does Thrill Hill Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Thrill Hill 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 Thrill Hill Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc, Oceanfirst Foundation.

Where is Thrill Hill Foundation based?

Thrill Hill Foundation is based in CA.

Thrill Hill Foundation

Thrill Hill Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Thrill Hill 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.

$371k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$622kFood & Nutrition$495kPhilanthropy$282kRecreation & Sports$185kPublic Benefit$185kHuman Services$173kReligion$140kArts & Culture$134kOther$0

02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k14 grants · $38k
$10k–50k7 grants · $139k
$50k–250k2 grants · $195k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WCC HISTORIC RENOVATION ASSOCIATION INC	$100,000
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION	$95,000
UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION	$35,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE	$28,875
COMPTON JUNIOR EQUESTRIANS	$20,000
CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST	$20,000
TRINITY CHURCH	$15,000
LWALA COMMUNITY ALLIANCE	$10,000
MUTLIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$10,000
EVERY MOTHER COUNTS	$5,000
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MONMOUTH COUNTY	$5,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY	$5,000
MUSICARES	$5,000
PICKLEBERRY PIE	$2,500
THE ALEXANDRA ROSE TOZZI MEMORIAL FOUNDATION	$2,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $237k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 44 repeat orgs$275k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

Still filing today

64%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
6× · 2018–2023 · $435k · revenue +123%
CF
Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
5× · 2017–2024 · $305k · revenue +97%
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION
3× · 2021–2024 · $155k · revenue +31%

Funded once

CF
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NJ
one grant, 2020 · $50k
TB
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $30k
MM
MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +16%

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.

04Its field

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.

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Street Settlement; the most unlike its peers is Cazzeek Brothers 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

43 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. 43 of the 66 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/43

Grantees still filing

29/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$889,520Health$524,000Food & Nutrition$309,500Human Services$236,726Recreation & Sports$185,000Arts & Culture$184,000Community Improvement$106,375

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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY20.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Oceanfirst Foundation · The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Stone Foundation of New Jersey · The Provident Bank Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thrill Hill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thrill Hill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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Find your warmest path to Thrill Hill Foundation 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.

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The camps

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By state

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