Minnesota · Nonprofit
HIGHLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL
HIGHLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $232k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $142k
What Highland District Council does
Mission
The Highland Dstrict Council mission is to foster opportunities for the people that live, learn, work and play in Highland Park to engage and connect with neighbors, businesses and local government and to help build a more vibrant, welcoming, and safe neighborhood.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Commercial Corridor Grants from July 1, 2025 -June 30, 2026 -These funds are for two commercial corridors located within the Highland Park neighborhood. The first corridor on Ford Parkway/ Cleveland and Snelling is using the funds to improve the streetscape planters and trees in the Highland Village and gave away $28,000 in business grants to be used on corridor improvements. The second corridor is on West 7th Street -the HDC is using the money to put brackets and hanging baskets on 50 light posts as you enter St Paul. Also 10-12 custom highland park bike racks for the businesses in the area, and $43,000 in business grants for improvements like new signage, a mural, and patio improvements.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Commercial Corridor Grants from July 1, 2025 -June 30, 2026 -These funds are for two commercial corridors located within the Highland Park neighborhood. The first corridor on Ford Parkway/ Cleveland and Snelling is using the funds to improve the streetscape planters and trees in the Highland Village and gave away $28,000 in business grants to be used on corridor improvements. The second corridor is on West 7th Street -the HDC is using the money to put brackets and hanging baskets on 50 light posts as you enter St Paul. Also 10-12 custom highland park bike racks for the businesses in the area, and $43,000 in business grants for improvements like new signage, a mural, and patio improvements.
$9,800 spentof which $128,400 as grants8% of program spendingCommunity Engagement - Inform and engage Highland Park residents regarding issues affecting the neighborhood. HDC maintains a website, Facebook page, participates in on-line forums, posts monthly emails and an annual report, convenes commmunity meetings, and has responded to well over 13,000 residents.
$106,051 spent88% of program spendingProgram Expenses- the annual meeting (100 people), helpf for seniors(25) Home Improvement Workshop Day (250) Music at the Bridge (900), Music at Wandering Leaf (300), Pizza and Movie at Sibley Manor (200) Movie Nights (300)
$4,445 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $120,296.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $34k to $142k (+312%).
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: 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of HIGHLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $30k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 HIGHLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL’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
HIGHLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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
100% 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 HIGHLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of HIGHLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HIGHLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HIGHLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 HIGHLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL: 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 HIGHLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL?
- HIGHLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HIGHLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $50,000 in grants to HIGHLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGHLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL?
- SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGHLAND DISTRICT COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing