Washington · Nonprofit
CHILDREN OF THE HILLS
CHILDREN OF THE HILLS (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,790 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($18,550). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $239k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $69k
What Children of the Hills does
Mission
Children of the Hills (CoH) is bringing life transforming changes to the tribal community living in the Hills of Bangladesh. Most of these people are illiterate and ill equipped to adapt to the rapidly changing world, so CoH has been supporting the education program of the Bangladesh Tribal Association of Baptist Churches (BTABC). The majority of 2025 CoH grants were focused on the operation and maintenance of the BTABC education program for 2400 children. CoH supported an education program that is offering schools for children in grades 1 to 10, we supported student hostels that enabled children to live near to a school, and we supported Primer schools to teach adults to read in their mother tongue. In addition, CoH supported youth camps, a women's micro loan program and tree farms that will provide future financial support for tribal education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Primary School Grant - This program provided 75% of the funding for operation of 76 primary schools for approximately 1,576 children. These schools provide a kindergarden through grade three education. This grant provided 100% of the salary for 57 teachers, teacher training for 78 teachers ($2,279), a staff Christmas gift ($2,954), school material for 1,576 students and teacher supplies for 76 primary schools ($3,209). This grant also funded two-day children camps for approximately 1,485 students ($5,276) and the grant supplied the funds to install tin roofing on six school buildings ($936).
$63,483 spentof which $63,483 as grants34% of program spendingStudent Lodging Grant - This grant provided 100% of the staff salary funding for 12 student lodgings (hostels) that provide living quarters for approximately 572 students. The grant supported six 2-day camps for 550 students. The grant also covered the following significant items: Study hall repair ($1756), Hebron Hostel new toilet facility ($1,913), Khagrachori ceiling repair ($1,304), new Khagrachori kitchen ($2,174), Gojolea Hostel extension ($4,348), Staff quarter construction ($3,044), Hebron Hostel veranda construction ($1,913), Marma Hostel kitchen rebuild ($2,174), Christmas gift ($1591), and annual training for the caregivers at each of the hostels.
$59,383 spentof which $59,383 as grants32% of program spendingHebron School Grant- Hebron School is the largest of our schools with 229 children in grades Kg - 10th. This is our only school with a sizable infrastructure (multiple buildings). This grant covered teacher salaries, teacher training ($456), school materials and maintenance of the facilities. The grant also supplied two desktop computers and one laptop computer ($957), government school (land) registration ($2,889) and a Christmas gift ($682).
$25,390 spentof which $25,390 as grants13% of program spendingInvest in Community Life Grant - This program provided salary for three women supervisors who are part of the women's ministry and micro-loan program and it supported Primer reading classes in 59 villages ($9,540). The Primer classes was the single largest portion of this expenditure with illiterate adults in 59 villages being taught how to read in their mother tongue. All regular schools supported by this organization must teach in the language of the land which is Bangla. The primer schools are different from the regular village primary schools in that they teach in one of the tribal languages.
$14,788 spentof which $14,788 as grants8% of program spendingBTABC Education Administration Grant - Children of the Hills is providing 95% of the support for the administration of the Bangladesh Tribal Association of Baptist Churches educational program. CoH provided staff salary, training, office supplies for four people in this administration office. This office manages the educational program for approximately 2,400 students in the primer schools, the Hebron school and the student hostels.
$12,422 spentof which $12,422 as grants7% of program spendingSponsor a Student Grant - Children of the Hills established a sponsorship program in 2019 for at-risk students. Many of the tribal students who live in the Hostels and attend a local government school come from families who spend 90% of their family income on food for the family. These families have little funds for the education of their children and cannot afford to keep their children in the BTABC's heavily subsidized Hostels. The sponsorship program is providing a small amount of money to keep the poorest of the student in school. This program was established with the understanding that Children of the Hills is working in partnership with parents of the students. Both parties pay a portion of the student's educational and living expenses. In 2025, this grant enabled 52 students to remain in school.
$10,265 spentof which $10,265 as grants5% of program spendingTrees-For-Education Grant - Children of the Hills is investing in the future of education for tribal children in the Hills of Bangladesh. We are supporting a program run by the Bangladesh Tribal Association of Baptist Churches (BTABC) to purchase low-cost degraded land and plant fast growing Acacia trees which will be harvested on a 7-year rotational time scale. Children of the Hills is working towards the day when the BTABC educational program becomes more self-supporting through sale of trees. In 2025 we planted approximately 500 more trees and maintained the trees that were planted in previous years. We now have approximately 102,500 trees in the tree gardens.
$2,717 spentof which $2,717 as grants1% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $188,448.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $26k to $69k (+168%).
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.
100% of CHILDREN OF THE HILLS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $16k.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CHILDREN OF THE HILLS’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
CHILDREN OF THE HILLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CHILDREN OF THE HILLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CHILDREN OF THE HILLS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CHILDREN OF THE HILLS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN OF THE HILLS?
- CHILDREN OF THE HILLS (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,790 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($18,550). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHILDREN OF THE HILLS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $36,790 in grants to CHILDREN OF THE HILLS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN OF THE HILLS?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $18,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN OF THE HILLS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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