Minnesota · Nonprofit
Highland Popcorn
Highland Popcorn (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,500 to it, the largest being FIREFLY SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION ($37,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $243k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $54k
What Highland Popcorn does
Mission
Provide meaningful life and employment opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Highland Popcorn provides meaningful life and employment opportunities for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The program offers free access to the Highland Popcorn shop and event area, along with complimentary professional staff hosting services, and free or discounted popcorn products for organizations assisting individuals with disabilities, community groups, and others for their events held at Highland Popcorn. Additionally, it includes business, community, and employment engagement for businesses, community organizations, and interested persons to learn about Highland Popcorn's innovative business model, which creates meaningful opportunities for individuals with disabilities. It also provides free sampling and community engagement at several customer locations to highlight its mission and enhance community involvement and employment opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 Popcorn’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
Highland Popcorn leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
48% 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 Popcorn.
“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
Highland Popcorn draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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 Popcorn receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $74k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,276 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Highland Popcorn
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Highland Popcorn LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Highland Popcorn: 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 Popcorn?
- Highland Popcorn (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,500 to it, the largest being FIREFLY SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION ($37,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Highland Popcorn have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $73,500 in grants to Highland Popcorn.
- Who is the largest funder of Highland Popcorn?
- FIREFLY SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $37,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Highland Popcorn 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 4 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