· Private foundation
W August Hillenbrand Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ocean Reef Chapel | $36,000 |
| Ocean Reef Catholic Community | $25,000 |
| Ocean Reef Protestant Community | $25,000 |
| Sacred Heart Church Festival | $10,000 |
| Duluth Newman Catholic Campus Ministry | $10,000 |
| Health Net | $10,000 |
| Ann's Nest | $5,000 |
| Everglades Foundation | $5,000 |
| Bonefish & Tarpon Trust | $5,000 |
| ABCD Diocese of Miami | $1,000 |
| St Justin Mytar Catholic Church | $1,000 |
| Southeastern Indiana YMCA | $1,000 |
| Cincinnati Children's Hospital | $1,000 |
| St Mary's of the Woods College | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- OROCEAN REEF ART LEAGUE INC4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +71%
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +41%- SISoutheastern Indiana Young Men's Christian Association Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- OROCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +57%
- OROcean Reef Jewish Communityone grant, 2024 · $5k
- PCPeace Corpone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Reef environmental education foundation (reef) was established as a nonprofit organization in 1990. reef conserves marine environments worldwide. our mission is to protect biodiversity and ocean life by actively engaging and inspiring the…
The foundation is committed to supporting neuroscience research that leads to advances in understanding of brain function and treatment of brain-related disorders.
To inspire people to care for and protect our ocean planet through education and research.
Our mission at reef renewal foundation international is to increase coral coverage and biodiversity worldwide by supporting our global network of reef restoration programs. reef renewal's network members are programs that are locally led…
Reef renewal usa is renewing coral reefs for future generations in a rapidly changing world by producing and outplanting resilient corals of the future at an unprecedented scale.
To preserve america's everglades and florida bay as natural resources.
To perform scientific research and educational outreach on the marine environments of sensitive and lesser known deep coral reefs, and implement outreach and education programs to increase awareness and understanding of these unusual…
To provide education, conduct research, and rescue marine mammals and sea turtles.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Batesville Main Street Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 44 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 BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF ART LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANNS NEST ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Indiana Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BATESVILLE MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAY RANCHES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
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.
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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 W August Hillenbrand Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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