How much does The Highfield Foundation Fifth Third Bank give?

The Highfield Foundation Fifth Third Bank reported 32 grants totaling $234,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Highfield Foundation Fifth Third Bank fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (28%), Education (19%), Arts & Culture (9%).

Who are The Highfield Foundation Fifth Third Bank's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Proctor Academy ($188k), New Avenues for Youth Inc ($80k), Vermont Land Trust Inc ($77k).

Does The Highfield Foundation Fifth Third Bank fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Highfield Foundation Fifth Third Bank 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 The Highfield Foundation Fifth Third Bank?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Heron Oaks Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Ruth Mott Foundation.

Where is The Highfield Foundation Fifth Third Bank based?

The Highfield Foundation Fifth Third Bank is based in OH.

The Highfield Foundation Fifth Third Bank

The Highfield Foundation Fifth Third Bank at a glance

· 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.

$234k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$35k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$396kEducation$272kArts & Culture$134kHealth$113kPhilanthropy$89kHousing & Shelter$88kHuman Services$65kReligion$46kOther$0

02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k25 grants · $103k
$10k–50k7 grants · $131k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
AVA GALLERY & ART CENTER	$5,000
Oceans Initiative	$5,000
LEWA WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY	$5,000
MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMENS SEXUAL	$5,000
DANCE COMPLEX	$5,000
Caravan to Class	$5,000

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 44 repeat orgs$204k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+13%

Still filing today

70%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsEducationArts & CultureScience & TechHuman ServicesOther

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

PA
PROCTOR ACADEMY
6× · 2020–2025 · $188k · revenue +38%
NA
NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +33%
VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $77k · revenue +32%

Funded once

DU
DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING
one grant, 2023 · $8k
DP
DOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILSgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +134%
OT
ON THE RISE INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +27%

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.

Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment

Global Forest Generation

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,…

Environment

Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment

Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech

Oikonos - Ecosystem Knowledge

Oikonos studies and protects imperiled ecosystems by engaging diverse communities through innovative scientific and artistic collaborations.

Science & Tech

Sustainable Conservation

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…

Environment

Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals

One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth's mission is to empower everyone, everywhere, with the knowledge, inspiration, and opportunity to heal the Earth and reclaim our future.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Flint; 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.

04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 80 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)

56/57

Grantees still filing

31/57

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$671,000Education$264,000Environment$200,500Animals$92,000Arts & Culture$78,500Philanthropy$53,000Science & Tech$51,000

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.

Heron Oaks FoundationOH24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Highfield Foundation Fifth Third Bank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Highfield Foundation Fifth Third Bank. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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