California · Nonprofit
HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION
HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,881,653 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,766,856). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 73
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What High Fives Nonprofit Foundation does
Mission
High fives non-profit foundation focuses on preventing life-changing injuries and provides resources and hope if they happen.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Empowement fund: the empowerment fund provides financial support and equipment to life-changing injury survivors in the form of board-approved grants for adaptive sports equipment, home/vehicle modifications, the high fives healing network, medical equipment, and emergency care/injury expenses. Life-changing injuries include spinal cord injuries (sci), traumatic brain injuries (tbi), amputations, or other mobility-limiting injuries. Since 2009, the foundation has disbursed nearly 11 million in empowerment funding to over 1,000 traumatic injury survivors in 47 states and territories plus canada. In these 16 years, we've provided 384 adaptive bikes, 157 full sets of skiing equipment, and 54 surf/kiteboards to high fives athletes across north america, enabling survivors to rediscover their identity through sport. Military to the mountain: military to the mountains (m2m) is an adaptive winter sports camp of high fives foundation that introduces 30+ veterans and first responders annually to the healing effects of skiing and snowboarding at renowned resorts in the western u.s. The program initiates with nine weeks of intensive training at the adaptive training foundation in texas or…
$4,091,338 spentof which $1,043,284 as grants92% of program spendingC.r. Johnson healing center: the c.r. Johnson (crj) healing center is a 10,000 square foot, 100% accessible gym, workspace, and wellness facility located within high fives headquarters in truckee, ca, offering vital resources for local athletes and veterans with life-changing injuries to progress through their recovery. We offer healing therapies such as acupuncture, chiropractic, cold plunging, infrared sauna, massage, neurokinetic pilates, restorative stretching, personal training, and physical therapy. We've had over 57,300 visits to the crj healing center since its establishment in 2010 and have provided nearly 13,000 free workouts sessions.
$320,742 spent7% of program spendingB.a.s.I.c.s.: our b.a.s.I.c.s. (being aware and safe in critical situations) program was created to engage young athletes to promote smart decision-making in the mountains. In the form of short, psa-style videos, this national ski areas association (nsaa)-approved, free online series is available to everyone from school-aged children to industry professionals. This program has more than 801,000 views, and our 2025 campaign covers the important topic of deep snow safety.
$38,292 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,450,372.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $2.5M to $3.2M (+24%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2021 4% · 2022 3% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Roy Tuscany
CEO
Board chair
Susan Stone
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $126k → $843k.
24 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 funders by total. 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
HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
82% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 41% · 2019 48% · 2020 34% · 2021 34% · 2022 27% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
50% of HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
74% of HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.3M that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from funders outside California, across 19 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$11k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: 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 HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION?
- HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,881,653 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,766,856). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $4,881,653 in grants to HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,766,856 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 73 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