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Higher Ground Foundation Inc

Higher ground foundation, inc.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$110kYouth Development$63kEducation$25kFood & Nutrition$20kEmployment$15kPhilanthropy$10kHealth$10k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$674k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIDORI & FRIENDS$25,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MUSICALLY FED: $10k → 11%LOAVES AND FISHES TOO: $10k → 11%PAGUS INC: $20k → 10%JON BON JOVI SOUL FOUNDATION: $10k → 22%ALL WITHIN MY HANDS: $15k → 8%MIDORI & FRIENDS: $25k → 17%INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $25k → 10%THE ALPINE INSTITUTE - JABOR: $25k → 7%SPIRIT OF HARMONY FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%JOAN DANCY & PALS (PEOPLE WITH ALS) FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%PAGUS INC: $20k → 10%INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $20k → 10%PAGUS INC: $13k → 10%INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10k → 10%PAGUS INC: $10k → 10%INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
PA
NJ
CA
CO
AZ
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 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.

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Music Doing Good Inc
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Mi Music Scholarship Fund
Arts & Culture
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The Sergio Franchi Music Foundation
Arts & Culture
4
The Solti Foundation Us Co Fiona Queen

The Solti Foundation U.S. was established after the 1997 death of Sir Georg Solti. Its mission is to assist talented young American musicians at the start of their professional careers. It has made annual grants to awardees since 2003.

Philanthropy
5
Bridges Through Music
Education
6
Artists and Musicians in Recovery
Education
7
The New York Festival of Song Inc

NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among…

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8
Palaver Strings Inc

Palaver strings is a grammy-nominated, musician-led string ensemble and nonprofit organization based in portland, me. our mission is to strengthen and inspire community through music. in our musician-led model, palaver's musicians share…

Arts & Culture
9
Music to the Ears Foundation

We use music education as a tool to help students discover their capacity for creativity, technological innovation and entrepreneurship.

Arts & Culture
10
Musicians Foundation Inc

The musician's foundation fosters interest and advances the condition and social welfare of professional musicians and provides voluntary aid and assistance to them and their families in case of need.

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11
Para Share Foundation Inc

Supporting young musicians & artists

Arts & Culture
12
Vanguard Concerts
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loaves and Fishes Too; the most unlike its peers is Alpine Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $65,000 · Arts & CultureINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTSPagus Inc: $62,500 · Arts & CulturePagus IncSPIRIT OF HARMONY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSPIRIT OF HARMONY FOUNDATION INCTHE MIDORI FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherTHE MIDORI FOUN…LOAVES AND FISHES TOO: $10,000 · OtherLOAVES AND FISH…ALL WITHIN MY HANDS: $15,000 · PhilanthropyALL WITHIN MY H…JON BON JOVI SOUL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyJON BON JOVI SO…JOAN DANCY AND P A L S INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyJOAN DANCY AND …ALPINE INSTITUTE: $25,000 · EducationALPINE INST…MUSICALLY FED: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$147,500Other$35,000Philanthropy$35,000Education$25,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

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 budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPagus Inc: $62,500 over 4y, 31% of budgetTHE MIDORI FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetALPINE INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSPIRIT OF HARMONY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetALL WITHIN MY HANDS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES TOO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJON BON JOVI SOUL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJOAN DANCY AND P A L S INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMUSICALLY FED: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% 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.

The Blackbaud Giving …The Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC11.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · 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 Higher Ground Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Higher Ground Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–5%
    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 10 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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