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HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION

HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,512 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($78,050). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$281k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$204k
Net assets
$1.3M
7/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 81%
01What it does

What Hinsdale Central Foundation does

Mission

To supplement the educational environment for the students of hinsdale central high school.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To perform the functions of, or to carry out certain charitable, educational, literary and scientific purposes of hinsdale central high school of hinsdale township high school district #86.

    $23,177 spentof which $23,177 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $23,177.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($81k) Expenses 100 ($53k) Net assets 100 ($127k)2019 Revenue 50 ($41k) Expenses 94 ($50k) Net assets 89 ($113k)2020 Revenue 2339 ($1.9M) Expenses 1203 ($642k) Net assets 1074 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 560 ($454k) Expenses 3144 ($1.7M) Net assets 133 ($169k)2022 Revenue 305 ($247k) Expenses 347 ($185k) Net assets 159 ($203k)2023 Revenue 900 ($729k) Expenses 185 ($99k) Net assets 708 ($902k)2024 Revenue 187 ($151k) Expenses 157 ($84k) Net assets 803 ($1.0M)2025 Revenue 346 ($281k) Expenses 120 ($64k) Net assets 999 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (346)Expenses (120)Net assets (999)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 2019 to 2020, from $113k to $1.4M (+1112%).

$127k
$113k
$1.4M
$169k
$203k
$902k
$1.0M
$1.3M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

83% of HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$28k
’17
−$9k
’19
$1.3M
’20
−$1.2M
’21
$62k
’22
$631k
’23
$68k
’24
$217k
’25
60
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed171616212021
Joined·+1+4+9+3+2
No longer listed·24441
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $6k.

7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION’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

HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

82% 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 HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION.

38%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 86% · 2019 76% · 2020 60% · 2021 98% · 2022 65% · 2023 56% — 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

8% of HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

69% of HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION'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 $62k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from Illinois funders.

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

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’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin77% · top quartile
Months of reserve60.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

36% of spending goes to programs.

Program 36%Management 64%Fundraising 0%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

81%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION?
HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,512 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($78,050). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $203,512 in grants to HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $78,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 18 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