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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.

$608k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $464,364, the rows itemized in this filing. The $608,105 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $143,741 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $199k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $233k
$19,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$770k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Housing Solutions of Nor AZ$110,000
Flagstaff Shelter Services$63,200
Habitat for Humanity North AZ$60,000
Quality Connections Inc$33,500
Victim Witness Services$25,455
United Way of Northern Arizon$25,000
St Vincent de Paul Diocese$23,000
Catholic Charities Community$22,500
Hozhoni Foundation Inc$19,250
DAMES Charities Inc$16,000
The Poore Medical Clinic$14,131
Big Brothers Big Sisters Flag$10,000
Friends of Camp Colton$10,000
Northland Family Help Center$8,860
North Country Healthcare$8,853
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $211k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Catholic Charities Community: $42k → 11%Quality Connections Inc: $34k → 16%Catholic Charities Community: $23k → 11%Quality Connections Inc: $25k → 16%Hozhoni Foundation Inc: $19k → 16%Victim Witness Services: $29k → 16%Hozhoni Foundation Inc: $15k → 16%Victim Witness Services: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$516k · 10 repeat orgs$290k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$516k
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HS
    HOUSING SOLUTIONS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $130k · revenue +30%
  • FS
    FLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $79k · revenue +53%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $65k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • FF
    FLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $90k · revenue -11%
  • SN
    SUNNYSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $24k · revenue 0%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FLAGSTAFF
    one grant, 2024 · $23k · revenue -43%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Flagstaff Medical Center

Improving health, healing people.

Health
2
House of Refuge Sunnyslope Inc

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.…

Housing & Shelter
3
Southeastern Arizona Behavioral Health Services Inc

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…

Health
4
Frontier Community Services

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…

Human Services
5
Horizon Health and Wellness Inc

Horizon health and wellness inc's mission is to provide strength-based, culturally sensitive integrated health services by partnering with families and individuals to manage challenges and support their recovery. hhw developed an (cont'd…

Health
6
Cancer Support Community Arizona

CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

Health
7
La Paloma Family Services Inc

We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.

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8
Community Housing Partnership Inc

Providing affordable housing for low-income families in the phoenix metro area.

Housing & Shelter
9
Northeastern Utah Friends Against Family Violence

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…

Health
10
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

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…

Human Services
11
Homeward Bound of the Grand Valley

Provide assistance and services to homeless persons in the grand valley.

Housing & Shelter
12
Center for Community Services

The center for community services empowers families to break the cycle of poverty through crisis assistance and employment readiness.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing Solutions of Northern Arizona Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
8/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $64,500 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY …Quality Connections Inc: $58,500 · Human ServicesQuality Connections IncVictim Witness Services For Coconino County: $54,215 · Human ServicesVictim Witness Services For C…HOZHONI FOUNDATION INC: $34,250 · Human ServicesHOZHONI FOUNDATION INCHOUSING SOLUTIONS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC: $130,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING SOLUTIONS OF NORTHERN…FLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC: $79,400 · Housing & ShelterFLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES IN…FLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER: $90,000 · OtherFLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTERHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA: $60,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN ARIZ…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FLAGSTAFF: $23,340 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FLAGSTAFFCare 4 the Caregivers: $16,000 · OtherCare 4 the CaregiversBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FLAGSTAFF: $22,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FLAGSTAFFNORTHLAND FAMILY HELP CENTER: $16,870 · OtherNORTHLAND FAMILY HELP CENTERFRIENDS OF CAMP COLTON INC: $16,275 · OtherFRIENDS OF CAMP COLTON INC+3 more: $22,968 · Other+3 moreTHE POORE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $38,631 · HealthREDEMPTION COUNSELING CENTER: $7,000 · HealthUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropySUNNYSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $23,881 · Community ImprovementDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $23,000 · Religion
Human Services$211,465Housing & Shelter$209,400Other$267,953Health$45,631Philanthropy$25,000Community Improvement$23,881Religion$23,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Forest Highlands Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Forest Highlands Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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