North Carolina · Nonprofit
NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION
NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,234,743 to it, the largest being HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ($1,128,213). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What North Carolina Hillel Foundation does
Mission
To empower and inspire north carolina's jewish college students to pursue their own jewish journeys by creating strong communities and transformative experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Peer engagement, community-building, and leadership development are at the core of nc hillel's work. Even during a global pandemic, nc hillel engaged over 1,000 students (including nearly 700 jewish students) on campuses across the state through diverse initiatives, including: a) student leaders who engage their jewish peers through informal conversations, developing relationships and connecting their peers to meaningful jewish experiences; b) a range of programs intended to create community, and c) training and mentoring student leaders, which promotes community-building and peer engagement.
$671,425 spent$35,263 earned by the program61% of program spendingShabbat and holiday celebrations and meals are a staple of nc hillel's calendar. In a typical year, on friday nights across the state, hundreds of students gather to celebrate shabbat, strengthening community and carving out time and space to rest and recharge with pluralistic religious services and a communal dinner. Hillel also convenes the community for jewish holidays - including rosh hashana, yom kippur, chanukah, and passover, in addition to less well-known holidays - of particular value for those students who are unable to travel home for the holiday, due to schedule, distance, or cost.
$242,865 spent22% of program spendingJewish education is another key facet of nc hillel's efforts. The jewish learning fellowship, a ten-week conversational seminar, and other educational programs inspire students to explore jewish ideas, deepening their jewish identities.
$193,743 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,108,033.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $3.3M to $4.4M (+34%).
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: 2021 14% · 2022 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Hannah Spinrad
Executive director
Board chair
Mike Ross
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $321k → $680k.
21 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
84% 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 NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 29% · 2019 20% · 2020 26% · 2021 19% · 2022 26% · 2023 24% — 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
57% of NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Organizations like NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION?
- NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,234,743 to it, the largest being HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ($1,128,213). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $5,234,743 in grants to NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION?
- HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE is the largest funder on record, with $1,128,213 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 55 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