Hill Country Community Foundation

Analysis

Hill Country Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Burnet, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1987, 39 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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 December 2023, Hill Country Community Foundation reported income of $1.7m and spending of $504k, leaving 71% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.3m to $1.7m (+34%), an average of +7.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 60%. Over the whole period it spent 37% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Hill Country Community 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 85th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Jewish Federation of the Berkshires Inc ($1.7m), Thedove Media Inc ($1.7m) and Oasis Fresh Foundation ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 74% of the total. At year end it held assets of $14.2m against liabilities of $331k, net assets of $13.9m.