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HIGHER GROUND USA INC

HIGHER GROUND USA INC (Idaho) receives grants from 161 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,902,626 to it, the largest being THE JANS FOUNDATION ($2,084,900). 94 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$5.2M
Revenue FY2025
161
Funders on record
$11M
Grants received
$4.9M
Net assets
94/161 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 53%

Against its field

HIGHER GROUND USA INC's funding base is broadening — from 29 funders to 67 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−2% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,432 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.0M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 137 ($4.1M) Expenses 88 ($3.1M) Net assets 139 ($2.6M)2020 Revenue 97 ($2.9M) Expenses 86 ($3.0M) Net assets 135 ($2.5M)2021 Revenue 138 ($4.2M) Expenses 77 ($2.7M) Net assets 213 ($4.0M)2022 Revenue 137 ($4.1M) Expenses 105 ($3.7M) Net assets 235 ($4.4M)2023 Revenue 189 ($5.7M) Expenses 138 ($4.8M) Net assets 285 ($5.3M)2024 Revenue 160 ($4.9M) Expenses 146 ($5.1M) Net assets 273 ($5.1M)2025 Revenue 173 ($5.2M) Expenses 151 ($5.3M) Net assets 263 ($4.9M)
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Revenue (173)Expenses (151)Net assets (263)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 20% · 2022 11% · 2023 12% · 2024 15% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

102% of HIGHER GROUND USA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,882 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$491k
17
$1.1M
19
$79k
20
$1.4M
21
$424k
22
$884k
23
$277k
24
$96k
25
1.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 67 funders, grant income rose $196k → $1.4M.

28 of 161 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)35% 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 HIGHER GROUND USA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 161 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

HIGHER GROUND USA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

39% 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 HIGHER GROUND USA INC.

19%
largest funder
38%
top three
~16
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 13% · 2018 15% · 2019 11% · 2020 33% · 2021 21% · 2022 31% · 2023 13%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.

How long its funders stay

48% of HIGHER GROUND USA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

HIGHER GROUND USA INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Idaho, across 31 states in all.

ME
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Idaho out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 161 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding HIGHER GROUND USA INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.2M on record.

Federal$4.2M
grants $4.2Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$4.2M

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 HIGHER GROUND USA INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Idaho

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 6%Fundraising 12%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

88%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

CA
HI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIGHER GROUND USA INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC?
HIGHER GROUND USA INC (Idaho) receives grants from 161 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,902,626 to it, the largest being THE JANS FOUNDATION ($2,084,900). 94 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HIGHER GROUND USA INC have?
IRS filings report 161 organizations giving $10,902,626 in grants to HIGHER GROUND USA INC, 94 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HIGHER GROUND USA INC?
THE JANS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,084,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HIGHER GROUND USA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 161funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing