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Hillcrest Family Services Inc

Hillcrest Family Services Inc (Iowa) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,010,163 to it, the largest being FAMILY PLANNING COUNCIL OF IOWA ($643,933). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$18M
Revenue FY2025
30
Funders on record
$2.0M
Grants received
$17M
Net assets
23/30 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

Hillcrest Family Services Inc is better cushioned than half of the 2,000 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−14% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,000 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($22M) Expenses 100 ($21M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 104 ($23M) Expenses 105 ($22M) Net assets 107 ($12M)2019 Revenue 103 ($23M) Expenses 105 ($22M) Net assets 110 ($13M)2020 Revenue 78 ($17M) Expenses 94 ($20M) Net assets 85 ($9.7M)2021 Revenue 101 ($22M) Expenses 85 ($18M) Net assets 126 ($14M)2022 Revenue 111 ($25M) Expenses 86 ($18M) Net assets 177 ($20M)2023 Revenue 81 ($18M) Expenses 86 ($18M) Net assets 176 ($20M)2024 Revenue 76 ($17M) Expenses 87 ($19M) Net assets 162 ($19M)2025 Revenue 80 ($18M) Expenses 95 ($20M) Net assets 147 ($17M)
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Revenue (80)Expenses (95)Net assets (147)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2020 8% · 2021 29% · 2022 39% · 2023 15% · 2024 9% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

18% of Hillcrest Family Services Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,397 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$753k
17
$700k
18
$437k
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$2.9M
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$4.2M
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$6.3M
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$317k
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$1.7M
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$2.5M
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2.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $259k → $207k.

7 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)35% 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 Hillcrest Family Services Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 30 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

Hillcrest Family Services Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

88% 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 Hillcrest Family Services Inc.

32%
largest funder
61%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 55% · 2019 71% · 2020 41% · 2021 23% · 2022 28% · 2023 44%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

65% of Hillcrest Family Services Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

99% of Hillcrest Family Services Inc's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IL
WI
IA
OH

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $705k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 30 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding Hillcrest Family Services Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.3M on record.

Federal$10.3M
grants $10.3Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$10.2M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$94k

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 Family Services Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Iowa

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 13%Fundraising 2%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Birch House Corporation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hillcrest Family Services Inc: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Hillcrest Family Services Inc?
Hillcrest Family Services Inc (Iowa) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,010,163 to it, the largest being FAMILY PLANNING COUNCIL OF IOWA ($643,933). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Hillcrest Family Services Inc have?
IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $2,010,163 in grants to Hillcrest Family Services Inc, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Hillcrest Family Services Inc?
FAMILY PLANNING COUNCIL OF IOWA is the largest funder on record, with $643,933 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Hillcrest Family Services Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 30funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing