Ohio · Nonprofit
DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND LEGACY PROJECT
DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND LEGACY PROJECT (Ohio) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,352,915 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,631,062). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $729k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Dietrich Von Hildebrand Legacy Project does
Mission
To promote and develop the thought of Dietrich von Hildebrand, a 20th century Catholic philosopher, as well as the broader tradition of Christian personalism, through channels including publications, seminars, and digital media.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Publications: The Hildebrand Project was founded to translate and publish the works of Dietrich von Hildebrand. This founding purpose remains central. (1) In 2024, the Hildebrand Project published The Roots of Moral Evil, a new work produced from edited manuscripts discovered in the Hildebrand archives in Munich, and (2) continued to make progress on a number of other books and translations to be published in 2025 and 2026.
$145,895 spent$33,439 earned by the program31% of program spendingAcademic: The Hildebrand Project supports the engagement and study of Hildebrand and the tradition of Christian personalism through a range of programs. (1) We held our 14th annual Summer Seminar on the topic The Challenge of Community, with 50+ participants in person, and more than 100 registered virtual participants. (2) We held our annual summer Graduate Residency, welcoming 15 graduate students in Steubenville to hone their philosophical writing with academic mentors. (3) We provided two scholarships for MA philosophy students at Franciscan University of Steubenville. (4) We organized a weekend colloquium on Personalism and Communio Metaphysics at St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry in Rochester, NY. (5) We hosted two advanced invitation-only reading groups of eight sessions each, one on Disenchantment (Spring 2024), and a second on the philosophies of Gabriel Marcel and Dietrich von Hildebrand (Fall 2024).
$193,747 spentof which $5,000 as grants$23,400 earned by the program41% of program spendingEducation and Outreach: (1) To serve audiences new to Hildebrand, we hosted 6 online reading groups for 139 participants. (2) We launched the archival podcast Lily: The Voice of Alice von Hildebrand, a weekly series featuring newly edited-for-podcast recordings of classic content by Alice von Hildebrand. (3) Public events, including our annual summer seminars, are filmed and presented on the Hildebrand Project's YouTube channel (www.hildebrandproject.org). (4) The Hildebrand Project communicates regularly with our social media followers and our email list.
$131,918 spent$550 earned by the program28% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $471,560.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $506k to $2.2M (+333%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 12% · 2022 2% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND LEGACY PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
John Henry Crosby
Trustee, CEO, and President
Board chair
Jonathan J Sanford
Trustee and Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $76k → $1.1M.
8 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND LEGACY PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND LEGACY PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND LEGACY PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 50% · 2019 44% · 2020 51% · 2021 33% · 2022 49% · 2023 95% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
60% of DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND LEGACY PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
94% of DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND LEGACY PROJECT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $147k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND LEGACY PROJECT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND LEGACY PROJECT
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND LEGACY PROJECT?
- DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND LEGACY PROJECT (Ohio) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,352,915 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,631,062). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND LEGACY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,352,915 in grants to DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND LEGACY PROJECT, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND LEGACY PROJECT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,631,062 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND LEGACY PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing