Minnesota · Nonprofit
HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY (Minnesota) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,395,476 to it, the largest being RMW FOUNDATION ($968,840). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Cargill Foundationshared funders
- The Leads Foundationportfolio match
- Peck Stacpoole Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.
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.
45% of HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $62k → $256k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 funders by total. 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
HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 39% · 2019 33% · 2020 55% · 2021 59% · 2022 75% · 2023 55% — broadly stable.
“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
38% of HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
66% of HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $291k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Cargill Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
- The Leads Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peck Stacpoole Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hermine & Julius H Gewirtz Foundation C/O Hermine Gewirtzportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- JohnMary & Bernard Jacobs FoundIncportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Netherland-America Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Advancement in Conservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ns Goldstein Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Margaret Mazer Ogdon Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hayden Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Samuel H Kress Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Saint John's University · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY?
- HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY (Minnesota) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,395,476 to it, the largest being RMW FOUNDATION ($968,840). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,395,476 in grants to HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY?
- RMW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $968,840 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HILL MUSEUM & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 23funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing