Hillcrest Educational Centers Inc
Overview
Mission
The organization offers educational and residential services to special needs children. The residential programs operate 24 hours per day, 7 days per week and 365 days per year and provide a variety of educational and behavioral services. The organization also offers a small day program primarily for local special needs children.
What it reported doing in 2024
Hillcrest center residential treatment and education program (highpoint) - this program is a trauma informed care residential treatment setting for students with a variety of high-risk behaviors and mental health diagnosis. The program provides specialized treatment for high-risk behaviors including, physical aggression, self-injury and suicidal ideation, substance use and fire setting, among many others. The program is designed to provide programming that is individualized to meet the needs of each student. The program provides an on-site year round educational program as well as a structured residential and milieu environment. Students are also provided with vocational and independent living skills. Our medical services include routine medical care delivered by nurses on-site as well as psychiatric services and medication management. The program provides an intensely structured, therapeutic and nurturing environment with high staff-to-student ratios. This allows the students to learn new skills including coping skills, emotional regulation skills, mindfulness skills and interpersonal relationship skills to help them become more successful as they prepare for transition to a lower level of care or community setting.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042848510
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Pittsfield, MA, USA
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and available reserves provide a limited financial cushion.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.6%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 90.2%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.68 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.7%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.9; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.6% of revenue deployed · 90.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $44.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $404K · 21 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links