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High Fives Nonprofit Foundation

High fives non-profit foundation focuses on preventing life-changing injuries and provides resources and hope if they happen.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$97kHealth$24kPhilanthropy$14kYouth Development$10kPublic Benefit$6k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $15,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,043,284 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,028,284 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.
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STOKE FOR LIFE$15,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%STOKE FOR LIFE: $15k → 11%ADAPTIVE TRAINING FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $124k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, $10k to organizations and $114k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$114k · 92% · 33 people

Stated purpose: EMPOWERMENT

Region not stated$10k · 8% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: EMPOWERMENT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIGGEST LITTLE TRAIL STEWARDSHIP INC: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsBIGGEST LITTLE TRAIL STEWARDSHIP INCVERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI AND SPORTS: $26,605 · Recreation & SportsVERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI AND SPORTSSky Tavern Inc: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsSky Tavern IncLIVIN LIFE ON WHEELS: $24,000 · OtherLIVIN LIFE ON WHEELSCENTRAL VERMONT MEMORIAL CIVIC CENT: $6,300 · OtherCENTRAL VERMONT MEMORI…STOKE FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesSTOKE FOR LIFE FOU…Adaptive Training Foundation: $10,200 · Human ServicesAdaptive Training …CHARITYSMITH NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $13,905 · PhilanthropyCHARITYSMI…Scotty Lapp Foundation: $10,385 · Youth Development
Recreation & Sports$71,605Other$30,300Human Services$25,200Philanthropy$13,905Youth Development$10,385

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBIGGEST LITTLE TRAIL STEWARDSHIP INC: $35,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetVERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI AND SPORTS: $26,605 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSTOKE FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCHARITYSMITH NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $13,905 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetScotty Lapp Foundation: $10,385 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetAdaptive Training Foundation: $10,200 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSky Tavern Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 High Fives Nonprofit Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from High Fives Nonprofit Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 9 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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