· Public charity
The Highland Project Inc
The organization is a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to sustain leaders across sectors and generations focused on creating multi-generational wealth for all, strengthen their civic engagement, and support them through access to capital and social networks.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BIG WE DBA HISTORIC CLAYBORN TEMPLE | $135,000 |
| POISE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BLACK CULTURAL ZONE CDC | $100,000 |
| ME TOO INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| SISTER SONG INC | $100,000 |
| THE KALEIDOSCOPE COLLECTIVE | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION | $100,000 |
| MELANATED LEADERS INC | $100,000 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF ARKANSAS EDUCATION FUND | $100,000 |
| CPM GLOBAL (CHELSEA MILLER) | $100,000 |
| COLOR FARM IMPACT INC | $100,000 |
| BELOVED COMMUNITY INC | $98,500 |
| SHE'S WELL NETWORKED INC | $95,000 |
| SURGE INSTITUTE INC | $95,000 |
| CHICAGO SOUTH SIDE BIRTH CENTER | $95,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $590k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of The Highland Project Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 16 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, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
EDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INC2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +92%- BCBeloved Community Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $290k · revenue -69%
- KCKATECHA CARES FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $150k
Funded once
- OVOur Village United Incone grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue 0%
- TRTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- EFEquity for All Incone grant, 2023 · $100k · 69% of their budget
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.
We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.
Revolution Institute's purpose is to liberate the expansive potential of African-American and Latinx communities through sustainable, future-oriented work, entrepreneurship, and value-aligned collaborations.
To transform the experiences, outcomes, and life options for children & families who have been historically underserved by our institutions and systems.
The Organization is a political hub focused on the dynamic possibilities of galvanizing the social and political power of Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people towards liberation.
To operationalize racial equity by harnessing the collective power through research, advocacy, programs, community mobility rituals, and social enterprises to improve the lives of black, brown, and indigenous people in our society.
To connect, engage, empower and advance black venture investors.
Elevate all communities of color through responsive & innovative actions to create and build a movement of positive and sustainable change, together.
To racially and ethnically diversify the US Environmental Movement by developing leaders, diversifying institutions, and building community.
Onyx Impact is a nonprofit research, education, and digital innovation hub dedicated to building healthier, safer, and more just digital spaces for Black communities. We fight the spread of harmful information, amplify Black voices, and…
The Black Organizing Project is a Black, member-led community organization working for racial, social, and economic justice through grassroots organizing and community building across the Bay Area.
Black in Action Collective exists to build Black political power to transform systems and radically reimagine what is possible for ourselves, our families, and our communities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Leaders of Color Inc and the most unlike its peers is Instituto Lab. 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 9 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 29% of your grantees by number, and just 24% 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.
34 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. 34 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.
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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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · John P and Anne Welsh McNulty Foundation · Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation · New Profit Inc · Impactassetsinc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc · The San Francisco 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 Highland Project Inc 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.
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.
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