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HIGHLAND FREE CHARTER SCHOOL

HIGHLAND FREE CHARTER SCHOOL (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $257 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($257). 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
$412k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$257
Net assets
$762k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Highland Free Charter School does

Mission

Primary education

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The school provides an additional educational alternative for parents and students in the surrounding community.

    $343,780 spent$408,510 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $343,780.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($548k) Expenses 100 ($525k) Net assets 100 ($225k)2020 Revenue 97 ($534k) Expenses 93 ($489k) Net assets 120 ($269k)2021 Revenue 111 ($606k) Expenses 103 ($538k) Net assets 150 ($337k)2022 Revenue 95 ($519k) Expenses 108 ($568k) Net assets 128 ($288k)2023 Revenue 178 ($978k) Expenses 94 ($495k) Net assets 343 ($772k)2024 Revenue 76 ($416k) Expenses 77 ($406k) Net assets 347 ($781k)2025 Revenue 75 ($412k) Expenses 82 ($431k) Net assets 339 ($762k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (75)Expenses (82)Net assets (339)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $589k to $773k (+31%).

$526k
$570k
$640k
$589k
$773k
$784k
$769k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

2% of HIGHLAND FREE CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$23k
’19
$44k
’20
$68k
’21
−$49k
’22
$483k
’23
$10k
’24
−$19k
’25
16
months of
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

Teresa A Rodriguez

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed4444444
Joined·+0+0+1+1+0+1
No longer listed·001101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $58 → $32.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 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 FREE CHARTER SCHOOL’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.

Where its funders are

100% of HIGHLAND FREE CHARTER SCHOOL'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. $257 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HIGHLAND FREE CHARTER SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · below the median
Months of reserve15.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like HIGHLAND FREE CHARTER SCHOOL

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 Arizona

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
25%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Experimental Schools Corp of Az · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds HIGHLAND FREE CHARTER SCHOOL?
HIGHLAND FREE CHARTER SCHOOL (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $257 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($257). 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 FREE CHARTER SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $257 in grants to HIGHLAND FREE CHARTER SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HIGHLAND FREE CHARTER SCHOOL?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $257 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HIGHLAND FREE CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 1 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