· Private foundation
The Highfield Foundation Fifth Third Bank
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $131k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| Proctor Academy | $30,000 |
| PACIFIC CLINICS | $16,000 |
| New Avenues for Youth | $16,000 |
| Vermont Land Trust Inc | $12,000 |
| The Nature Conservancy in Vermont | $12,000 |
| RESOLVE INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| Ben Lomond Quaker Center Association | $6,000 |
| CORA (Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTON HEALTH OUTREACH | $5,000 |
| TRAP DAT CAT | $5,000 |
| Foundation For Climate Restoration Inc | $5,000 |
| Oceans Initiative | $5,000 |
| MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMENS SEXUAL | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 13 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
- PAPROCTOR ACADEMY6× · 2020–2025 · $188k · revenue +38%
- NANEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +33%
VERMONT LAND TRUST INC6× · 2020–2025 · $77k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- OTON THE RISE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +27%
- DPDOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +134%
- DUDUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSINGone grant, 2023 · $8k
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.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
Oikonos studies and protects imperiled ecosystems by engaging diverse communities through innovative scientific and artistic collaborations.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
One Earth's mission is to empower everyone, everywhere, with the knowledge, inspiration, and opportunity to heal the Earth and reclaim our future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Flint and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Climate Restoration 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 33 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 80 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 PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Community Gallery Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAC FKA COMMUNITY HEALTH AWARENESS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds RESOLVE INC ↗
- Who funds CORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse ↗
- Who funds Caravan to Class ↗
- Who funds SIX RIVERS LAND CONSERVANCY FKA SIX RIVERS REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BEN LOMOND QUAKER CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Planetwork ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Science & History ↗
- Who funds Oceans Initiative ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds National Center for Science Education ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CLIMATE RESTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rainforest Action Network ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds Flint River Watershed Coalition ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LES CHENEAUX COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FLINT PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS ↗
- Who funds BROOKE USA INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HEALTH OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds ON THE RISE INC ↗
- Who funds DOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILS ↗
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: Heron Oaks Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Ruth Mott Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Boston Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Marin Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Gannett Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Eastern Bank 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 The Highfield Foundation Fifth Third Bank 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.
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- On the Rise Inc — 39% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- The New Dance Complex Inc — 2% of income from government
- Vermont Public Co — 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.