Illinois · Community foundation
Highland Area Community Foundation
Develop and promote highland community projects and activities
- $393k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $109k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,070
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Highland Area Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $109k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $146k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $293k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $273k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $124k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $86k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $197k | 80% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $35k | 75% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Relevant Pregnancy Options Center | $239,063 | 3 | 46% |
| Cdh International | $137,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Knights of Columbus 1580 | $39,205 | 4 | 14% |
| American Legion | $26,486 | 1 | n/a |
| Metro East Humane Society | $25,280 | 1 | 2% |
| Highland Area Christian Service Ministry | $23,698 | 2 | 2% |
| Operation Finally Home | $14,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Highland Home | $11,069 | 1 | n/a |
| Turning Point USA Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stewards of Hope International | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Relevant Pregnancy Options Center | $239,063 | 3 | 46% |
| Cdh International | $137,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Knights of Columbus 1580 | $39,205 | 4 | 14% |
| American Legion | $26,486 | 1 | n/a |
| Metro East Humane Society | $25,280 | 1 | 2% |
| Highland Area Christian Service Ministry | $23,698 | 2 | 2% |
| Operation Finally Home | $14,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Highland Home | $11,069 | 1 | n/a |
| Turning Point USA Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stewards of Hope International | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Christian Social Services of Illinois | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($928k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Highland Area Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About Highland Area Community Foundation
- How much does Highland Area Community Foundation give?
- Highland Area Community Foundation reported 5 itemized grants totaling $108,555, out of $393,301 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Highland Area Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (17%), Education (10%), International (10%).
- Who are Highland Area Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Relevant Pregnancy Options Center ($239k), Cdh International ($137k), Knights of Columbus 1580 ($39k).
- Does Highland Area Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Highland Area Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Highland Area Community Foundation based?
- Highland Area Community Foundation is based in IL.
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