Hill Cities Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411491398
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6122204657
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $152,883
- Expenses
- $131,741
- Assets
- $135,271
- Liabilities
- $251
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jeffrey Hagen (President)
People named in this filing
- Jeffrey Hagen (President)
- Jeff ODonnell (Board Member)
- Ric Escobar (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Formed to serve Christian Businessmen
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization publishes a periodic newsletter with job assistance, information on collaboration initiatives with potential employers and testimonials from people who have
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Multi-channel. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 24% for direct work, 17% for grants, and 59% for member benefits.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 26
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.5%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 28.1%; rating input score 28
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.8%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 39.5%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -18.1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 25.5% of revenue deployed · 28.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $37K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.