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HILLS TO CLIMB

HILLS TO CLIMB (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $414,634 to it, the largest being T ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($392,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$225k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$415k
Net assets
$70k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 91%
01What it does

What Hills to Climb does

Mission

Hills to Climb supports organizations serving urban youth populations, by providing inspirational, immersive and high quality outdoor experiences in a camp setting.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Hills to Climb executed the a summer camp program in July 2025, hosting 59 youth over a period of 3 weeks. Programming focused on outdoor experiences, communication and teamwork, leadership development and building new outdoor skills.

    $213,063 spentof which $10,000 as grants$190,000 earned by the program
    86% of program spending
  2. Hills to Climb maintained the operation of the organization including governance, accounting, outreach, legal, administration, human resources, fundraising, and communication. Community partnerships doubled through local outreach, programming and social media efforts.

    $35,647 spent$34,802 earned by the program
    14% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $248,710.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($108k) Expenses 100 ($4k) Net assets 100 ($105k)2023 Revenue 125 ($136k) Expenses 5230 ($184k) Net assets 54 ($56k)2024 Revenue 202 ($219k) Expenses 4922 ($173k) Net assets 90 ($94k)2025 Revenue 208 ($225k) Expenses 7056 ($249k) Net assets 67 ($70k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (208)Expenses (7056)Net assets (67)Peer revenue range

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 $105k to $56k (−46%).

$105k
$56k
$94k
$70k
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

83% of HILLS TO CLIMB’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$105k
’22
−$49k
’23
$46k
’24
−$24k
’25
3.2
months of
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

Christina Lamour

Executive Director

Board chair

Donald Hauprich

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed67
Joined·+1
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 HILLS TO CLIMB’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

HILLS TO CLIMB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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

95% 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 HILLS TO CLIMB.

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

95% of HILLS TO CLIMB'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 $22k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maryland funders.

MD

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $393k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HILLS TO CLIMB has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like HILLS TO CLIMB

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 Maryland

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 12%Fundraising 3%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

26%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds HILLS TO CLIMB?
HILLS TO CLIMB (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $414,634 to it, the largest being T ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($392,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HILLS TO CLIMB have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $414,634 in grants to HILLS TO CLIMB, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HILLS TO CLIMB?
T ROWE PRICE PROGRAM FOR CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $392,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HILLS TO CLIMB find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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