Andrew Hillman | Service Before Scale. Nonprofit and Community Work.

Roots

Four generations at Temple Emanu-El Dallas.

My family is remembered in the Temple Emanu-El Dallas 2025 Book of Remembrance. The names below are taken directly from that primary source. My grandmother was Fannie Levine. The rest of the family group surrounding her in the book reads as the same household and the same generation, exactly as Temple Emanu-El published it.

Levine line

Maternal · Temple Emanu-El Book of Remembrance, 2025

Fannie Levine · my grandmother.

Edith Specter Levine.

Henry Bergman Levine · my grandfather.

William Levine.

Hillman line

Paternal · Temple Emanu-El Book of Remembrance, 2025

Elliott Reuben Hillman.

Nathaniel Hillman.

Family education lineage

Texas first · multi-generational

Beverly Julia Levine · my mother · UT Austin.

Her two sisters · UT Austin.

Martin Levine · uncle · SMU.

Steven Levine · uncle · UT Austin.

My father · UT Arlington.

The next Hillman generation · Arizona State University.

Why I funded the scholarship

Three generations of Texas public higher education

Two private K-12 educations in Dallas, then six members of this family across two generations at UT Austin, UT Arlington, and SMU. Public Texas higher education got my mother and her sisters through. It got my father through. Funding the Andrew Hillman Scholarship and Grant for Biotech is the most direct way to send that same opportunity forward, on terms a third party can verify.

My synagogue is Temple Emanu-El Dallas, founded 1872, the oldest Jewish congregation in Texas. The favorite nonprofit I support nationally is Chabad, because the work gets done in front of the people who need it. The principle is the same in both places: show up, name yourself, do the next concrete thing.

How I Approach Giving

Three rules I will not break.

Every dollar and every hour on this page lives somewhere a third party can confirm. The school annual report. The 501(c)(3) acknowledgement letter. The donor wall photograph. The court record on the scholarship.

Service before scale.

Local schools, neighborhood institutions, and the people in front of me come first. Marquee causes can wait their turn.

Verifiable or it does not exist.

If a third party cannot confirm a donation or a volunteer hour, it does not live on this site. Memory is not a citation.

Quiet record, not press.

The Andrew Hillman Scholarship and Grant for Biotech runs on personal savings, not on a press release. The record speaks where the press cannot reach.

Service Categories

Where the work goes.

Three concrete tracks of community work, all active or documented.

Education

Dallas independent schools

Direct gifts to capital campaigns at Dallas independent schools where my children have attended. Lamplighter School Innovation Lab is the public-record example below. No naming-rights solicitation. No vendor-bid expectation.

Scholarship and grant

Established 2022

The Andrew Hillman Scholarship and Grant for Biotech, launched on release from BOP custody and funded from personal savings. Targets aspiring biotech students and early-stage frontier biotech research with measurable downstream value.

Veterans and reentry

Independent, post-2022

Direct support and mentorship for veterans and for individuals reentering civic life after federal custody. Not aggregated through a public foundation. Quiet by intent.

Cancer research access

Through a private biotech program

Compassionate-use access pathways and patient-cost subsidies for advanced-stage solid tumor patients. Disclosed for transparency. Not a donation in the 501(c)(3) sense.

Verified Gifts on Public Record

Donations a third party can confirm.

Each row below cites a published donor recognition page, an annual report, or an organization that publishes its donor roll. Nothing self-reported. Nothing rounded up.

Recipient	Purpose	Period	Tier	Source
Lamplighter School	Innovation Lab capital campaign, school-wide donor recognition	Fall 2013	\$5,000–\$9,999	Lamppost magazine, Fall 2013 published donor roll
Heroes for Israel Project	Humanitarian relief and emergency response	2024	Listed donor	HFIP 2024 donor acknowledgement

Donor tiers reflect what each organization itself publishes. Where a recipient publishes only a range, that range is what appears here. Specific dollar figures inside a published tier are not asserted unless the organization made them public.

The work that lasts is the work no one had to be talked into doing.

Operating note — 2026

The Scholarship and Grant

Andrew Hillman Scholarship and Grant for Biotech.

Founded on release from federal custody in 2022. Self-funded from personal savings. Awards target aspiring biotech students and early-stage frontier biotech research where the downstream value is measurable in patient outcomes, not in press cycles.

Who it serves

Undergraduate and early-graduate students pursuing biologics, regenerative medicine, oncology, and FDA regulatory pathways. Preference given to first-generation college students and to candidates from communities historically under-represented in frontier biotech research.

How it operates

No public solicitation. No fundraising apparatus. Funded entirely from the principal personal savings. Selection criteria are scientific merit, demonstrated work product, and a written plan for what the award will produce within twelve months.

Quiet work. Verifiable
community record.