Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HILLCREST EDUCATIONAL CENTERS INC
HILLCREST EDUCATIONAL CENTERS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $566,346 to it, the largest being DONALD C MCGRAW FOUNDATION INC ($295,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $52M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $566k
- Net assets
- $23M
What Hillcrest Educational Centers Inc does
Mission
The organization offers educational and residential services to special needs children. The residential programs operate 24 hours per day, 7 days per week and 365 days per year and provide a variety of educational and behavioral services. The organization also offers a small day program primarily for local special needs children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hillcrest center residential treatment and education program (highpoint) - this program is a trauma informed care residential treatment setting for students with a variety of high-risk behaviors and mental health diagnosis. The program provides specialized treatment for high-risk behaviors including, physical aggression, self-injury and suicidal ideation, substance use and fire setting, among many others. The program is designed to provide programming that is individualized to meet the needs of each student. The program provides an on-site year round educational program as well as a structured residential and milieu environment. Students are also provided with vocational and independent living skills. Our medical services include routine medical care delivered by nurses on-site as well as psychiatric services and medication management. The program provides an intensely structured, therapeutic and nurturing environment with high staff-to-student ratios. This allows the students to learn new skills including coping skills, emotional regulation skills, mindfulness skills and interpersonal relationship skills to help them become more successful as they prepare for transition to a…
$13,373,412 spent$15,652,526 earned by the program30% of program spendingIntensive treatment unit program - this program strives to break the debilitating cycle of multiple failed placements and repeated hospitalizations experienced by our students. The program provides crisis stabilization and comprehensive diagnostic assessment services for students with severe behavioral and psychiatric challenges. Essential components of care and treatment include specialized therapeutic services, small classroom settings with one-on-one assistance readily available, psychiatric services, nursing services, rehabilitation services such as speech and occupational therapy. The program facility is located in the berkshire hills of great barrington, ma.
$10,792,761 spent$12,478,843 earned by the program24% of program spendingAutism spectrum disorder residential program - offers highly specialized day and intensive residential treatment services for children and adolescents at all levels of the autism spectrum. The program's high staff-to-student ratio ensures a safe, caring and highly structured treatment environment. To monitor progress, the organization uses state-of-the-art collection and analysis systems for ongoing assessments of social needs, communication, academic/skill acquisition, vocational needs, recreation and behavioral difficulities. The program facility is located in the berkshires of western massachusetts, and has been specifically designed for the safety and special needs of the autism population.
$10,049,266 spent$9,359,357 earned by the program23% of program spendingOther treatment related programs include the day treatment and education unit program which provides a safe, therapeutic environment where students can learn to their highest potential. The special needs children receive individualized education, counseling and support services they need to learn and be successful. Other treatment related programs include the psychological services program and the asd day program.
$9,976,409 spent$11,097,475 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $44,191,848.
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 2023 to 2024, from $36M to $40M (+13%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 7% · 2022 12% · 2023 14% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of HILLCREST EDUCATIONAL CENTERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Shaun V Cusson
President/CEO
Board chair
Michele A Butler
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $80k → $74k.
1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hillcrest Educational Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HILLCREST EDUCATIONAL CENTERS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HILLCREST EDUCATIONAL CENTERS INC’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
HILLCREST EDUCATIONAL CENTERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 85% · 2019 85% · 2020 61% · 2021 95% · 2022 77% · 2023 54% — 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
33% of HILLCREST EDUCATIONAL CENTERS INC'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
HILLCREST EDUCATIONAL CENTERS INC draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $316 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HILLCREST EDUCATIONAL CENTERS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding HILLCREST EDUCATIONAL CENTERS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $101.7M on record.
- MA$67.4M
- VT$34.3M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HILLCREST EDUCATIONAL CENTERS INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Hillcrest Educational Foundation Inc · exempt
- Hillcrest Dental Care Inc · exempt
- Berkshire County Kids' Place and Violence Prevention Center Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HILLCREST EDUCATIONAL CENTERS INC?
- HILLCREST EDUCATIONAL CENTERS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $566,346 to it, the largest being DONALD C MCGRAW FOUNDATION INC ($295,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HILLCREST EDUCATIONAL CENTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $566,346 in grants to HILLCREST EDUCATIONAL CENTERS INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HILLCREST EDUCATIONAL CENTERS INC?
- DONALD C MCGRAW FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $295,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HILLCREST EDUCATIONAL CENTERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 11 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