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HILLSIDE HOUSE

HILLSIDE HOUSE (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,888,602 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FRIENDS OF SANTA BARBARA ($728,886). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$9.0M
Funders on record
38
Grants received
$2.9M
Net assets
$7.5M
31/38 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Hillside House does

Mission

To provide a home that supports our residents efforts to maximize their physical, cognitive, social and emotional abilities so that they can achieve the highest individual level of independence in an environment where people are treated with dignity and respect.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. We have sustained Hillsides core mission to provide a residential and therapeutic learning community for 59 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Our residents come to us with a wide range of intellectual and developmental disabilities. We specialize in serving those who have medical conditions that require regular nursing care. Our commitment is to provide the highest quality of life for each resident, offering a broad range of therapeutic services to help them achieve the greatest level of their abilities. 24 hour nursing care is essential for our residents to sustain and enjoy life.It has been a year of achievements and challenges and fun at Hillside in 2023Our Program Department continues to provide continuous active treatment to all of our residents on a daily basis. Physical, Occupational and Speech therapies as well as recreational activities are offered throughout the day to those who are unable to attend day programs on a full time basis. The day programs are slowly re-opening providing residents with meaningful activities out of the facility. In addition to the regular therapies and activities held at Hillside, outside entertainment coming in to the…

    $7,473,410 spent$7,870,600 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,473,410.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.3M) Expenses 100 ($5.0M) Net assets 100 ($4.2M)2018 Revenue 105 ($5.6M) Expenses 102 ($5.1M) Net assets 103 ($4.3M)2019 Revenue 99 ($5.3M) Expenses 109 ($5.5M) Net assets 105 ($4.4M)2020 Revenue 107 ($5.7M) Expenses 114 ($5.8M) Net assets 108 ($4.5M)2021 Revenue 140 ($7.5M) Expenses 125 ($6.3M) Net assets 140 ($5.8M)2022 Revenue 155 ($8.2M) Expenses 142 ($7.1M) Net assets 154 ($6.4M)2023 Revenue 169 ($9.0M) Expenses 160 ($8.0M) Net assets 173 ($7.2M)2024 Revenue 169 ($9.0M) Expenses 173 ($8.7M) Net assets 181 ($7.5M)
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Revenue (169)Expenses (173)Net assets (181)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $5.1M to $6.1M (+19%).

$4.5M
$4.7M
$5.1M
$6.1M
$6.3M
$7.0M
$7.8M
$8.1M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 2% · 2021 9% · 2022 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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$299k
’17
$451k
’18
−$205k
’19
−$37k
’20
$1.2M
’21
$1.1M
’22
$977k
’23
$318k
’24
1.4
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

Michael Rassler

President/CEO

Board chair

Brad Frohling

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1315141312131519
Joined·+2+5+12+1+2+2+4
No longer listed·06132100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $213k → $433k.

8 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 HILLSIDE HOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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

HILLSIDE HOUSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

50% 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 HILLSIDE HOUSE.

25%
largest funder
42%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 36% · 2019 34% · 2020 30% · 2021 16% · 2022 16% · 2023 23% — 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

71% of HILLSIDE HOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% 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

86% of HILLSIDE HOUSE's grant income comes from California funders.

WA
MN
IL
NV
OH
CT
CA
VA
DE
TX
FL

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $573k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

Organizations like HILLSIDE HOUSE

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

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 2%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

76%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HILLSIDE HOUSE: 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 HILLSIDE HOUSE?
HILLSIDE HOUSE (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,888,602 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FRIENDS OF SANTA BARBARA ($728,886). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HILLSIDE HOUSE have?
IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $2,888,602 in grants to HILLSIDE HOUSE, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HILLSIDE HOUSE?
COMMUNITY FRIENDS OF SANTA BARBARA is the largest funder on record, with $728,886 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HILLSIDE HOUSE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 38 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