Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE HILLSIDE SCHOOL
THE HILLSIDE SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $805,479 to it, the largest being THE GRAYMER FOUNDATION ($225,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $805k
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What The Hillside School does
Mission
The mission of The Hillside School is to maximize the potential of children with learning disabilities through excellence in education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Education of elementary and middle school age children with learning disabilitiesthe purpose and philosophy of this school shall be to provide superior educational instruction to k-8th grade school children so as to assist each student in managing learning disabilities in an atmosphere which not only emphasizes knowledge and the skills of learning but also makes available the specialized diagnostic skills of educational specialists to design, implement, and evaluate individualized curricula so as to promote the greatest educational development of its students.the goals of The Hillside School include developing eager resilient learners equipped with strategies, self -confidence and advocacy skills to succeed in traditional learning environments. To help families of our children to understand the problems and challenges of learning differently and to become part of the solution. To act as a training center for teachers from public and independent schools to more effectively serve children with learning disabilities in their classrooms. To assist colleges and universities to expand and enhance the application of learning theories for students majoring in education, psychology and…
$2,236,316 spentof which $473,520 as grants$1,552,905 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,236,316.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $8.1M to $6.6M (−19%).
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: 2020 11% · 2021 3% · 2023 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $41k → $109k.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 HILLSIDE SCHOOL’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
THE HILLSIDE SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 THE HILLSIDE SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 24% · 2019 68% · 2020 75% · 2021 25% · 2022 64% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.
“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
53% of THE HILLSIDE SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
58% of THE HILLSIDE SCHOOL's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 THE HILLSIDE 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% 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 HILLSIDE SCHOOL: 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 THE HILLSIDE SCHOOL?
- THE HILLSIDE SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $805,479 to it, the largest being THE GRAYMER FOUNDATION ($225,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE HILLSIDE SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $805,479 in grants to THE HILLSIDE SCHOOL, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HILLSIDE SCHOOL?
- THE GRAYMER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HILLSIDE 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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