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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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $341,966 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $401,316 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $59,350 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $231k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Flagstaff Family Food Center | $90,000 |
| Catholic Charities Community | $42,000 |
| Victim Witness Services | $28,760 |
| Quality Connections Inc | $25,000 |
| The Poore Medical Clinic | $24,500 |
| Sunnyside Neighborhood Assoc | $23,881 |
| Boys & Girls Club Flagstaff | $22,500 |
| Housing Solutions of Nor AZ | $20,000 |
| Flagstaff Shelter Services | $16,200 |
| Hozhoni Foundation Inc | $15,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Flag | $13,340 |
| Northland Family Help Center | $8,010 |
| Literacy Volunteers Coconino | $6,500 |
| Friends of Camp Colton | $6,275 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.
Improving health, healing people.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
Our Family's mission is to eliminate homelessness and strengthen our community. We do this by providing stability in times of crisis, linking people to support and resources, supporting social connectedness, engaging our neighbors to…
Friends Against Family Violence (FAFV) is a community based nonprofit domestic violence program. FAFV provides services, shelter, crisis intervention, and prevention in the Tri-County of Uintah, Duchesne, and Daggett. We provide services…
Our mission is continually to improve the quality of life for the people we serve in collaboration with our diverse communities in a respectful, caring, culturally sensitive manner. The organization provides behavioral health services for…
Our mission is to love, house, and equip men, women and children. coming from chronic unemployment, recovery, or an endless cycle of homelessness, our residents experience a clean, safe home where transforming their life can begin.…
The mission of frontier community services (fcs) is to provide quality, individualized home and community based services for people of all ages who are at risk of, or experiencing a disabling condition, in order to minimize the need for…
To be the leader in providing safety, stability, and quality of life for all children by working with the community to strengthen the family unit.
Family services center's mission is to provide a family-focused holistic approach to empowerment and self-sufficiency in an effort to decrease multi-generational poverty while creating healthier families and stronger communities.
Enable families on the precipice of homelessness, or currently experiencing homelessness, to sustain or gain employment, independent housing and self-sufficiency.
To serve women, families, and veterans by providing temporary housing, resources, individualized case management and a pathway to permanent housing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing Solutions of Northern Arizona Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Poore Medical Clinic Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Victim Witness Services For Coconino County ↗
- Who funds Quality Connections Inc ↗
- Who funds THE POORE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SUNNYSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FLAGSTAFF ↗
- Who funds HOUSING SOLUTIONS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOZHONI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FLAGSTAFF ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND FAMILY HELP CENTER ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF COCONINO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMP COLTON INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Forest Highlands Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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