· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| CARE | $25,000 |
| MONTCLAIR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOWERY RESIDENTS' COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| SEA TURTLE RECOVERY INC | $5,300 |
| ACKERMAN INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WNYC | $2,700 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY | $2,073 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,030 |
| THE MONTCLAIR COMMUNITY PRE-K | $2,000 |
| EVA'S VILLAGE | $1,090 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $1,030 |
| PARTNERS FOR WOMEN & JUSTICE | $1,010 |
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 (FY19–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 90% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
29 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC3× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +12%- STSEA TURTLE RECOVERY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +79%
- BRBOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +121%
Funded once
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +40%- ETELEVATE TO EVEN PLUS INCORPORATED AKA ELEVATEone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +9%
- MFMONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +50%
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.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Wnet is a multi-media public service non-profit that delivers lifelong learning and meaningful experiences to our communities. our content inspires curiosity, encourages action and nurtures dreams.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Sea Turtle Recovery Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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. 30 of the 44 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 COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SEA TURTLE RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR EARLY CHILDHOOD CORP MONTCLAIR COMMUNITY PRE-K ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR WOMEN AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds DOLPHIN RESEARCH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE TO EVEN PLUS INCORPORATED AKA ELEVATE ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds EVA'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR AMBULANCE UNIT ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR HISPANIC FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds LUNA STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR PBA LOCAL #53 INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIAL SERVICES CORP ↗
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.
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
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 Avenue 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Family Promise of Sussex County Inc — 32% of income from government
- Partners for Women and Justice Inc — 26% of income from government
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- Montclair Film Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
- Dolphin Research Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Montclair Ambulance Unit — 0% of income from government
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.