California · Nonprofit
HILLCREST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
HILLCREST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,192 to it, the largest being BID FOUNDATION ($40,192). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $117k
What Hillcrest Business Improvement Association does
Mission
To promote, foster, and improve business conditions in the city of san diego, in the area of hillcrest.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The association promotes, improves, and fosters business condtions in the area commonly known as hillcrest, city of san diego, ca, pursuant to city ordinance 16481, which established and defined a parking business improvement area as the hillcrest business improvement district, through diverse programs that include a monthly newsletter, weekly famrers markets, area beautification, street cleaning, security, and special events such as city fest and street fair annual events.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
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 $137k to $407k (+197%).
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: 2022 6% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Benjamin J Nicholls
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of HILLCREST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of HILLCREST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like HILLCREST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HILLCREST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: 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 HILLCREST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION?
- HILLCREST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,192 to it, the largest being BID FOUNDATION ($40,192). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HILLCREST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $40,192 in grants to HILLCREST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of HILLCREST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION?
- BID FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,192 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HILLCREST BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 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.
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 1 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