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HIGHLANDS COUNTRY CLUB INC

HIGHLANDS COUNTRY CLUB INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being FARMER LEE FOUNDATION INC ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$14M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$20M
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Highlands Country Club Inc does

Mission

Description of organization mission: founded in 1928, highlands country club is the premier, family-oriented club in the north carolina mountains. The club is steeped in rich history and tradition, from its donald ross designed golf course to its community of caring members. The club is committed to providing its geographically diverse membership with superb facilities and a dedicated and talented staff. Highlands country club is a responsible and involved participant in the town of highlands.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Non-profit country club providing golf, tennis, swimming, health, and dining facilities for its members and guests only.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $0.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($8.5M) Expenses 100 ($7.2M) Net assets 100 ($24M)2018 Revenue 97 ($8.2M) Expenses 102 ($7.3M) Net assets 100 ($23M)2019 Revenue 104 ($8.9M) Expenses 110 ($7.9M) Net assets 46 ($11M)2020 Revenue 95 ($8.1M) Expenses 99 ($7.1M) Net assets 49 ($12M)2021 Revenue 110 ($9.3M) Expenses 113 ($8.1M) Net assets 53 ($13M)2022 Revenue 121 ($10M) Expenses 130 ($9.4M) Net assets 57 ($13M)2023 Revenue 130 ($11M) Expenses 139 ($10M) Net assets 60 ($14M)2024 Revenue 156 ($13M) Expenses 147 ($11M) Net assets 71 ($17M)2025 Revenue 169 ($14M) Expenses 152 ($11M) Net assets 84 ($20M)
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Revenue (169)Expenses (152)Net assets (84)

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 $35M to $40M (+16%).

$26M
$26M
$30M
$29M
$31M
$33M
$35M
$40M
$44M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.3M
’17
$854k
’18
$955k
’19
$977k
’20
$1.2M
’21
$918k
’22
$1.0M
’23
$2.7M
’24
$3.4M
’25
5.8
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.

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Listed1416151515151817
Joined·+2+6+3+4+4·+2
No longer listed·07344·3
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $500.

From the IRS filings of HIGHLANDS COUNTRY CLUB INC’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

HIGHLANDS COUNTRY CLUB INC 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

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2022 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

HIGHLANDS COUNTRY CLUB INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.

GA
FL

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

’18
’22
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like HIGHLANDS COUNTRY CLUB INC

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In North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIGHLANDS COUNTRY CLUB 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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Questions and answers

Who funds HIGHLANDS COUNTRY CLUB INC?
HIGHLANDS COUNTRY CLUB INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being FARMER LEE FOUNDATION INC ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HIGHLANDS COUNTRY CLUB INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,000 in grants to HIGHLANDS COUNTRY CLUB INC.
Who is the largest funder of HIGHLANDS COUNTRY CLUB INC?
FARMER LEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HIGHLANDS COUNTRY CLUB INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2017–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing