A bevvy of local organizations, including the Houston Parks Board and Trees for Houston, will receive $308,000 each, after a state probate judge approved the settlement of businessman James Martin Hill Jr.’s estate.
Hill, who “established a successful home building company,” died in 2010, but an agreement over the distribution of $6.9 million left for 19 local and national non-profits was only reached Monday, according to a press release from Houston attorney Richard Mithoff, who represented a majority of the beneficiaries.
“Thanks to the generosity of James Hill and an amicable agreement reached with the family, a number of charities will share in this very gracious request,” Mithoff stated in the release.
The beneficiary organizations are:
– Boy Scouts of America, Sam Houston Area Council
– Buffalo Bayou Partnership
– Houston Museum of Natural Science
– KIPP Academy
– Trees for Houston
– Houston Zoo
-YES Prep Public Schools
– Houston Parks Board, Inc.
-The University of Texas System on behalf of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston [will receive $363,158]
– American Enterprise Institute
– Cato Institute
– The Claremont Institute
– The Heritage Foundation
– Manhattan Institute
– American Friends of Versailles
– Hoover Institution
– Hudson Institute
– International Bible Society
– Ludwig Von Mises Institute
This article appears in Nov 20-26, 2014.
