Hillside Foundation

Analysis

Hillside Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Rochester, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Hillside Foundation reported income of $2.6m and spending of $4.3m, spending 162% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $4.8m to $2.6m (-45%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income dropped by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 142% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Hillside Foundation sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Childrens Assistive Technology Service ($2.6m), Family Preservation Community Services ($2.6m) and Pendleton Place Inc ($2.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 78% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $598k. It paid $450 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $28.5m against liabilities of $1.0m, net assets of $27.5m. It reported 9 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.