North Carolina · Nonprofit
THE HILL CENTER INC
THE HILL CENTER INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,893,227 to it, the largest being FM KIRBY FOUNDATION INC ($700,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE HILL CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Childtrust Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Duke University Health System Incshared funderslocal
- The Ann C and John a Henry III Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of THE HILL CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $241k → $682k.
11 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.2M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hill Center Endowment). These are real filings, and they are not money THE HILL CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE HILL CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
THE HILL CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
42% 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 THE HILL CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 34% · 2019 41% · 2020 22% · 2021 21% · 2022 25% · 2023 22% — 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
41% of THE HILL CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
52% of THE HILL CENTER INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
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 51 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Childtrust Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchNC · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Duke University Health System Incshared funderslocalNC · backs 69 organizations that share your funders · funds 70 organizations near you
- The Ann C and John a Henry III Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Morgan Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wake County Smart Start Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hsc Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learningportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Holly Lane Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cobb Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of the Greater Triangle Incshared funderslocalNC · backs 85 organizations that share your funders · funds 73 organizations near you
- The Robert P Holding Foundation Incshared fundersNC · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- The Durham Arts Council InclocalNC · funds 90 organizations near you
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.
Organizations like THE HILL CENTER 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE HILL CENTER 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.
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 THE HILL CENTER INC?
- THE HILL CENTER INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,893,227 to it, the largest being FM KIRBY FOUNDATION INC ($700,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE HILL CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $4,893,227 in grants to THE HILL CENTER INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HILL CENTER INC?
- FM KIRBY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HILL CENTER INC 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.
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 51funders 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