Colorado · Nonprofit
HIGHVIEW
HIGHVIEW (Colorado) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $846,559 to it, the largest being PROSPERITY DENVER FUND ($402,983). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $661k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $847k
- Net assets
- $312k
What Highview does
Mission
Highview is a nonprofit organization that provides year-round career readiness, mentorship, and social capital development programming for academically motivated high school & college students from low-income and first-generation backgrounds in metro denver. Through ongoing partnerships with local employers, Highview delivers professional skill-building workshops, one-to-one mentorship, corporate immersion experiences, and scholarship suppot designed to increase college persistence and long-term economic mobility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
High school student accelerator/corporate immersion program: through monthly sessions at our partner company offices, Highview provides 1:1 mentorship from employee volunteers, career exploration, and professional skill-building to help students build the confidence & social capital needed to persist in college and pursue high-mobility careers. With a 100% on-time high school graduation rate and a 100% career placement rate, Highview ensures that highly motivated students turn academic talent into a strong career launch.
$474,020 spent92% of program spendingCollege scholarships: Highview awards scholarships to graduating seniors based on students' attendance and participation in the program to help offset any remaining tuition costs and ensure college persistence.
$41,711 spentof which $41,711 as grants8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $515,731.
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.
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 $17k to $260k (+1397%).
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 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of HIGHVIEW’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Nicole Sherman
Founder & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $72k → $70k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 HIGHVIEW’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
HIGHVIEW leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 HIGHVIEW.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 70% · 2023 21% — 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
86% of HIGHVIEW's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $313k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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
HIGHVIEW has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,734 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,734 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HIGHVIEW
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIGHVIEW: 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 HIGHVIEW?
- HIGHVIEW (Colorado) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $846,559 to it, the largest being PROSPERITY DENVER FUND ($402,983). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIGHVIEW have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $846,559 in grants to HIGHVIEW, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGHVIEW?
- PROSPERITY DENVER FUND is the largest funder on record, with $402,983 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGHVIEW find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 19 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