I did not go home. I went to the library.
The Hollis Family Foundation had a website. It listed grants, recipients, board members, and annual reports. I sat at a table in the periodicals section and read every page. The foundation gave money to schools, to land trusts, to a theater company in the city. It also gave $400,000 a year to something called the Hollis Institute for Creative Enterprise.
I searched the institute. It was registered as a 501(c)(3). Its address was a post office box in Delaware. Its board members were Patricia Hollis, Linda Hollis, and a man named Gerald Voss, who I had never heard of. Its mission statement was one sentence: To support emerging entrepreneurs in the beauty and wellness sector.
Linda's brand was in the beauty and wellness sector.
I searched the tax
