California · Nonprofit
HILLBROOK SCHOOL
HILLBROOK SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,547,600 to it, the largest being THE SCOTT FOUNDATION ($4,061,705). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Hillbrook School does
Mission
Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life. (continued on sch. O)at hillbrook, students are known, respected, and valued as individuals and every day is a journey of self-discovery, imaginative thinking, creative problem solving, laughter, and friendship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Hillbrook School is a co-educational country day school founded in 1935 and incorporated in 1999 as a california not-for-profit corporation to provide quality education for approximately 440 primary, middle, and upper school age children in junior kindergarten through tenth grade.during the year ended june 30, 2022, the school's board of trustees approved a plan to expand its operation to add an upper school for students in ninth through twelfth grades. In june 2022, the school signed long-term leases at two historical buildings providing for a second urban campus located in downtown san jose. The school enrolled and launched its first ninth grade class in the fall of 2023, its first tenth grade class in the fall of 2024, (continued on schedule o)and its first eleventh grade class in the fall of 2025. The school plans to add a twelfth grade class in the fall of 2026, with a target upper school enrollment eventually ramping up to approximately 300 students. The upper school is focused on a rigorous academic program that balances skills-based and integrated, interdisciplinary offerings, with a deep commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, and social impact education.
$22,652,581 spentof which $4,036,006 as grants$20,935,092 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,652,581.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2022 to 2023, from $33M to $54M (+65%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of HILLBROOK SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Shannon Hunt Scott
Chair, bot and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $814k → $2.3M.
14 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 HILLBROOK SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
HILLBROOK SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% 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 HILLBROOK SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 33% · 2019 32% · 2020 38% · 2021 43% · 2022 46% · 2023 37% — diversifying over time.
“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
52% of HILLBROOK SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
62% of HILLBROOK SCHOOL'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. Of the $5.1M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
HILLBROOK SCHOOL is better cushioned than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like HILLBROOK SCHOOL
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HILLBROOK SCHOOL: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HILLBROOK SCHOOL?
- HILLBROOK SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,547,600 to it, the largest being THE SCOTT FOUNDATION ($4,061,705). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HILLBROOK SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $13,547,600 in grants to HILLBROOK SCHOOL, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HILLBROOK SCHOOL?
- THE SCOTT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,061,705 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HILLBROOK SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 36 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing