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THE HILL SCHOOL

THE HILL SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 148 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,387,417 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,054,650). 106 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$67M
Funders on record
148
Grants received
$23M
Net assets
$317M
106/148 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What The Hill School does

Mission

The Hill School prepares students from across the country and around the world for college, careers and life. Within a family school environment and a rigorous liberal arts curriculum, we challenge our young people to work hard; think and reason; be fulfilled; serve the common good; and be prepared to lead as citizens of the world, uniquely guided by our motto, "whatsoever things are true."

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Hill School provides a challenging curriculum to its 527 students emphasizing critical thinking and writing. A total of 21 advanced placement courses were offered as well as an array of honors classes and independent studies. Hill students are active in athletics, the arts, student-run organizations and community service. Hill students are drawn from 26 states and 17 foreign countries. The typical class size is 11 students with a student/teacher ratio of 7:1.

    $41,650,021 spentof which $7,766,987 as grants$37,211,147 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $41,650,021.

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 ($46M) Expenses 100 ($41M) Net assets 100 ($206M)2018 Revenue 115 ($53M) Expenses 107 ($44M) Net assets 106 ($219M)2019 Revenue 125 ($58M) Expenses 111 ($45M) Net assets 112 ($231M)2020 Revenue 123 ($57M) Expenses 111 ($45M) Net assets 112 ($231M)2021 Revenue 193 ($90M) Expenses 118 ($48M) Net assets 137 ($284M)2022 Revenue 136 ($63M) Expenses 126 ($52M) Net assets 129 ($266M)2023 Revenue 130 ($60M) Expenses 135 ($55M) Net assets 135 ($278M)2024 Revenue 115 ($53M) Expenses 137 ($56M) Net assets 142 ($293M)2025 Revenue 144 ($67M) Expenses 141 ($58M) Net assets 154 ($317M)
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Revenue (144)Expenses (141)Net assets (154)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 2020 to 2021, from $285M to $340M (+19%).

$246M
$269M
$284M
$285M
$340M
$320M
$333M
$346M
$366M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

30% of THE HILL SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,254 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$5.5M
’17
$9.7M
’18
$13M
’19
$12M
’20
$42M
’21
$11M
’22
$5.2M
’23
−$2.5M
’24
$9.1M
’25
2.9
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.

Board chair

James L Alexandre

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed303636343636323437
Joined·+8+3+0+7+3+5+2+6
No longer listed·23253903
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 46 funders to 74 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $4.6M.

31 of 148 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 THE HILL SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 148 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 SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left

53% 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 SCHOOL.

9%
largest funder
23%
top three
~26
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 20% · 2019 15% · 2020 12% · 2021 20% · 2022 14% · 2023 27% — 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

56% of THE HILL SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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

THE HILL SCHOOL draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 29 states in all.

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
AR
NC
SC
HI
OK
GA
TX
FL

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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

THE HILL SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like THE HILL SCHOOL

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 20%Fundraising 8%

Governance

27
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 12 states

AK
NH
WA
MI
MA
OR
OH
PA
CO
KY
MD
OK

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Hobart's Run Neighborhood District · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL?
THE HILL SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 148 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,387,417 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,054,650). 106 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE HILL SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 148 organizations giving $23,387,417 in grants to THE HILL SCHOOL, 106 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE HILL SCHOOL?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,054,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE HILL SCHOOL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 148 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