New Jersey · Private foundation
Highland Avenue Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $107k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 26
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Highland Avenue 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 | 22 | $81k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $56k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $100k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $89k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $103k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $96k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $88k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sea Turtle Recovery Inc | $52,953 | 6 | 13% |
| Bowery Residents Committee Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Georgetown University | $20,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Montclair Early Childhood Corp Montclair Community Pre-K | $15,886 | 7 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pro Publica Inc | $13,867 | 5 | 0% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $12,360 | 7 | 0% |
| Human Needs Food Pantry Inc | $11,777 | 6 | 0% |
| Partners for Women and Justice Inc | $11,140 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($226k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Highland Avenue Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Scholl Family Foundation Inc · The Silver Family Foundation Inc · Partners for Health Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Chalfoun Family Foundation · Susan V Bershad Charitable Fund Inc · Sonder Foundation · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
About Highland Avenue Foundation
- How much does Highland Avenue Foundation give?
- Highland Avenue Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $107,318 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Highland Avenue Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), International (16%), Environment (10%).
- Who are Highland Avenue Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc ($100k), Sea Turtle Recovery Inc ($53k), Bowery Residents Committee Inc ($35k).
- Does Highland Avenue Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Highland Avenue Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Highland Avenue Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Scholl Family Foundation Inc, The Silver Family Foundation Inc, Partners for Health Inc.
- Where is Highland Avenue Foundation based?
- Highland Avenue Foundation is based in NJ.
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