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Forest Highlands Foundation

The Forest Highlands Foundation exists to make the greater Flagstaff communitya better place for all by supporting effective local charitable organizations. TheFoundation encourages, coordinates and leverages the generosity of ForestHighlands members to create identifiable impact on the needs of the community,with primary emphasis on…

$608k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Itemized grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$464k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$19,250
Largest grant, FY2025
$110,000
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$770k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Housing Solutions of Northern Arizona Inc$130,00022%
Flagstaff Family Food Center$90,00011%
Flagstaff Shelter Services Inc$79,40021%
Catholic Charities Community Services Inc$64,50020%
Habitat for Humanity of Northern Arizona$60,00012%
Quality Connections Inc$58,50020%
Victim Witness Services For Coconino County$54,21521%
The Poore Medical Clinic Inc$38,631210%
Hozhoni Foundation Inc$34,25020%
United Way of Northern Arizona Inc$25,00011%
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All grantees of Forest Highlands Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Housing Solutions of Northern Arizona Inc$130,00022%
Flagstaff Family Food Center$90,00011%
Flagstaff Shelter Services Inc$79,40021%
Catholic Charities Community Services Inc$64,50020%
Habitat for Humanity of Northern Arizona$60,00012%
Quality Connections Inc$58,50020%
Victim Witness Services For Coconino County$54,21521%
The Poore Medical Clinic Inc$38,631210%
Hozhoni Foundation Inc$34,25020%
United Way of Northern Arizona Inc$25,00011%
Sunnyside Neighborhood Association$23,881110%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Flagstaff$23,34023%
Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix$23,00010%
Boys and Girls Club of Flagstaff$22,50011%
Northland Family Help Center$16,87020%
Friends of Camp Colton Inc$16,27521%
Care 4 the Caregivers$16,00013%
North Country Healthcare Inc$8,8531n/a
High Country Adaptive Sports Association$7,61511%
Redemption Counseling Center$7,00011%
Literacy Volunteers of Coconino County Inc$6,50013%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Forest Highlands Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHousing Solutions of Northern Arizona Inc: $130,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFlagstaff Family Food Center: $90,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFlagstaff Shelter Services Inc: $79,400 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCatholic Charities Community Services Inc: $64,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Northern Arizona: $60,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetQuality Connections Inc: $58,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVictim Witness Services For Coconino County: $54,215 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Poore Medical Clinic Inc: $38,631 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetHozhoni Foundation Inc: $34,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Northern Arizona Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSunnyside Neighborhood Association: $23,881 over 1y, 10% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Flagstaff: $23,340 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetDiocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix: $23,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Flagstaff: $22,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNorthland Family Help Center: $16,870 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Camp Colton Inc: $16,275 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCare 4 the Caregivers: $16,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHigh Country Adaptive Sports Association: $7,615 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRedemption Counseling Center: $7,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLiteracy Volunteers of Coconino County Inc: $6,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Molly and Joseph Herm…Arizona Community Fou…United Way of Norther…Geile Charitable Foun…Health First Foundati…Geofamily FoundationThe Narbha Institute …Burton Family Foundat…Hartzell Family Found…Coleman Charitable Fo…Arizona Coalition to …APS Foundation Inc
Molly and Joseph Herman FoundationAZ32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Molly and Joseph Herman Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · United Way of Northern Arizona Inc · Geile Charitable Foundation · Health First Foundation-Northern Arizona · Geofamily Foundation · The Narbha Institute Inc · Burton Family Foundation · Hartzell Family Foundation · Coleman Charitable Foundation · Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Inc · APS Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Forest Highlands Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Forest Highlands Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Forest Highlands Foundation

How much does Forest Highlands Foundation give?
Forest Highlands Foundation reported 17 itemized grants totaling $464,364, out of $608,105 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Forest Highlands Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (26%), Housing & Shelter (25%), Health (12%).
Who are Forest Highlands Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Housing Solutions of Northern Arizona Inc ($130k), Flagstaff Family Food Center ($90k), Flagstaff Shelter Services Inc ($79k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Forest Highlands Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Molly and Joseph Herman Foundation, Arizona Community Foundation, United Way of Northern Arizona Inc.
Where is Forest Highlands Foundation based?
Forest Highlands Foundation is based in AZ.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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