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.

Highland Avenue Foundation

Highland Avenue Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$201kInternational$105kEnvironment$71kEducation$64kAnimals$63kFood & Nutrition$37kArts & Culture$28kSocial Science$26kOther$0

02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k20 grants · $37k
$10k–50k4 grants · $70k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$563k · 29 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$563k

$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+40%

Still filing today

72%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsInternationalEnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
3× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +12%
ST
SEA TURTLE RECOVERY INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +79%
BR
BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +121%

Funded once

Feeding Americagraduated
one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +40%
ET
ELEVATE TO EVEN PLUS INCORPORATED AKA ELEVATE
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +9%
MF
MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +50%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Public Media Nj Inc

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

Arts & Culture

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Manhattan University

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…

Education

University of New Haven

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…

Education

University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Wnet

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.

Arts & Culture

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; 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.

04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/30

Grantees still filing

23/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$347,778International$105,150Animals$63,013Human Services$60,837Education$59,906Arts & Culture$26,558Food & Nutrition$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Scholl Family Foundation IncNJ15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Highland Avenue Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Highland Avenue Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home