Illinois · Nonprofit
CELEBRATE HIGHWOOD
CELEBRATE HIGHWOOD (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,650 to it, the largest being The Earl and Bettie Fields Automotive Group Foundation Inc ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $182k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $110k
What Celebrate Highwood does
Mission
To better the community of highwood by organzing and running highwood days, festivals, and events. All net profits raised are donated to charities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Other festivals/events. Celebrate Highwood puts on festivals and events throughout the year. Food, carnival, and vendor displays are all part of the events.
$16,500 spent$85,776 earned by the program100% of program spendingPumpkin festival is held in october each year. Food, carnival, and vendor displays are all part of the event.
$250,852 earned by the programHIGHWOOD DAYS IS THE CITY'S OLDEST FESTIVAL. IT INCLUDES carnival rides, games, live, music, and more.
$68,120 earned by the programEVENING GOURMET MARKET - This live evening music series offers a Ravinia Festival-like atmosphere and is recognized as one of the best outdoor markets on the North Shore. With over 60 vendors each week, this Evening Gourmet Market brings the community together to enjoy music with family and friends in the great outdoors, while picnicking on delicious food and drinks, and strolling the circular path to shop for local artisan crafts and wares.
$61,893 earned by the program
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,500.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $32k to $120k (+282%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
0% of CELEBRATE HIGHWOOD’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $150.
From the IRS filings of CELEBRATE HIGHWOOD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CELEBRATE HIGHWOOD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
94% of CELEBRATE HIGHWOOD's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CELEBRATE HIGHWOOD runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CELEBRATE HIGHWOOD
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
19% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CELEBRATE HIGHWOOD: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CELEBRATE HIGHWOOD?
- CELEBRATE HIGHWOOD (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,650 to it, the largest being The Earl and Bettie Fields Automotive Group Foundation Inc ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CELEBRATE HIGHWOOD have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,650 in grants to CELEBRATE HIGHWOOD.
- Who is the largest funder of CELEBRATE HIGHWOOD?
- The Earl and Bettie Fields Automotive Group Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CELEBRATE HIGHWOOD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing