· Private foundation
W August Hillenbrand Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Health Net | $10,000 |
| Duluth Newman Catholic Campus Ministry | $10,000 |
| Everglades Foundation | $5,000 |
| Ann's Nest | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-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.
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
How this is measured
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%
- FHFamilies Helping Familiesone grant, 2024 · $5k
- OROcean Reef Jewish Communityone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 44 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 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 FAY RANCHES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
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: William A & Marth H Hillenbrand Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization W August Hillenbrand Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W August Hillenbrand Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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