Pennsylvania · Private foundation
High Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $6.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 181
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 106
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 94%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2024
- $5.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $450,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 106
- FY2020 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $307M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 94% of the organizations High Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 135 | $5.5M | 47% |
| FY2022 | 106 | $2.6M | 94% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $368k | 84% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $60k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lancasterhistoryorg | $950,400 | 2 | 16% |
| Lancaster City Alliance | $323,000 | 2 | 20% |
| Lancaster Area Habitat for Humanity Inc | $292,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Children Deserve a Chance Foundation | $282,100 | 2 | 15% |
| The Factory Ministries | $275,750 | 2 | 8% |
| Church World Service Inc | $254,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Little Conestoga Creek Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | 29% |
| Tenfold | $200,700 | 2 | 4% |
| Elizabethtown College | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lancaster Redevelopment Fund | $200,000 | 1 | 13% |
Show all 131 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
High Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 121 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Ferree Foundation · Ppl Foundation · United Way of Lancaster County · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · High Foundation · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · Fulton Family Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundation
How this is measured
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About High Foundation
- How much does High Foundation give?
- High Foundation reported 181 itemized grants totaling $5,627,863, out of $6,804,139 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 106 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
- What does High Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (67%), Education (5%), Arts & Culture (4%).
- Who are High Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Lancasterhistoryorg ($950k), Lancaster City Alliance ($323k), Lancaster Area Habitat for Humanity Inc ($292k).
- Does High Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 94% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does High Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as High Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lancaster County Community Foundation, The Steinman Foundation, Clark Associates Charitable Foundation.
- Where is High Foundation based?
- High Foundation is based in PA.
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