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Highgate Charitable Foundation Inc

Highgate charitable foundation's mission is to support philanthropic organizations and communities worldwide that address issues related to poverty, education, and health care.

$305k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$74k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

International$1.6MEducation$171kHealth$134kFood & Nutrition$100kPhilanthropy$29kRecreation & Sports$10k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $124,370 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $305,445 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $181,075 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

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $74k
$30,870
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHATTERPROOF$73,500
TEACHING MATTERS$30,870
SANDESTIN FOUNDATION$10,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 55% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%TEACHING MATTERS: $31k → 17%AGA KHAN FOUNDATION: $850k → 14%SANDESTIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%REED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $750k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%FEEDING AMERICA: $100k → 14%TEACHING MATTERS: $25k → 17%AGA KHAN FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%REED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%SHATTERPROOF: $74k → 9%UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $10k → 17%SHATTERPROOF: $10k → 9%UJA FEDERATION OF NY: $9k → 17%FRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC: $10k → 17%LUPUS FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 5 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$1.1M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+40%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • AK
    AGA KHAN FOUNDATION USA
    2× · 2020–2021 · $900k · revenue +109%
  • TM
    TEACHING MATTERS INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $56k · revenue +59%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $19k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue +14%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +57%
  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +40%

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

04Your field

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.

1
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
3
We Are Family Foundation

The we are family foundation celebrates the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.

Civil Rights
4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
7
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
8
Researchamerica

2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…

9
Arrow

To make grants to charitable organizations and programs that support the achievement of sexual and reproductive health (srh) of the poor & underprivileged women and others in the asia-pacific and elsewhere.

International
10
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

11
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
12
Future Problem Solving Program International Inc

Future problem solving proudly celebrates more than 50 years of placing close to a million young people at the core of a dynamic, purposeful learning experience. each year k-12 students from around the world participate in a variety of…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sandestin Foundation. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AGA KHAN FOUNDATION USA — $900,000 · InternationalAGA KHAN FOUNDATION USASave The Children Federation Inc — $750,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation IncTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · EducationTHE UNIVE…TEACHING MATTERS INC — $55,870 · EducationTEACHING …REED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · EducationREED CHAR…SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $83,500 · HealthLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $50,000 · HealthFeeding America — $100,000 · Food & NutritionUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $19,400 · PhilanthropySANDESTIN FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
International$1,650,000Education$170,870Health$133,500Food & Nutrition$100,000Philanthropy$29,400Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAGA KHAN FOUNDATION USA — $900,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $750,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $83,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTEACHING MATTERS INC — $55,870 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $19,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSANDESTIN FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy FundNY12.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Highgate Charitable Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Highgate Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Highgate Charitable Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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