· Community foundation
Highland Area Community Foundation
Develop and promote highland community projects and activities
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $108,555 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $393,301 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $284,746 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CDH INTERNATIONAL | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $28,526 |
| ST PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $15,070 |
| HIGHLAND PIERRON FIRE DEPT | $14,176 |
| HIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL | $5,783 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- IGIndividual grant recipient9× · 2017–2025 · $623k
- RPRELEVANT PREGNANCY OPTIONS CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $239k · revenue -26% · 46% of their budget
- CICDH INTERNATIONAL5× · 2021–2025 · $137k · revenue -20%
Funded once
- ALAMERICAN LEGIONone grant, 2022 · $26k
- MEMETRO EAST HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -16%
- OFOPERATION FINALLY HOMEone grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue -14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Heartland Humane Society of Missouri is a 501 c3 non profit group of dedicated foster homes that gives abandoned abused and unwanted animals another chance for loving permanent homes through our adoption program following the no-kill…
Hannahs Home is a Christ-centered life-affirming maternity home for women who are in crisis.
To build and provide adequate housing to qualified familes.
The mission of the High Desert Humane Society is to promote and to provide humane and ethical treatment of companion animals through facility care, adoption, community education and programs which address pet over population.
Construct homes for needy families
Provide care, housing and training to displaced and disadvantaged children
Assist in pet adoption ownership & care
Hfh is a christian non-profit organization working towards the elimination of poverty by making decent shelter available. orange county, indiana hfh provides residential housing for low income families who have been residents of orange…
Humane treatment of animals
Tender Life is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help and hope for women during their pregnancies and beyond.
To transform the landscape of homelessness in springfield and sangamon county, il.
Build homes for god's people in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Social Services of Illinois and the most unlike its peers is Knights of Columbus 1580. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds RELEVANT PREGNANCY OPTIONS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CDH INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS 1580 ↗
- Who funds METRO EAST HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND AREA CHRISTIAN SERVICE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FINALLY HOME ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND HOME ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 Highland Area Community Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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