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Highway Sanctuary

Highway Sanctuary (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($85,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$66k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$90k
Net assets
$97k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Highway Sanctuary does

Mission

Providing Arts Education and Workshops to members of the Morongo Basin community and beyond.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Participated in Highway 62 Art Tours as a way to invite residents of and visitors to the Morongo Basin to participate in workshops and experience Artist in Residence installation. 3 weeks total. 900 people.

    $1,000 spent
    67% of program spending
  2. Produced The Little Zoo a hands on presentation of animals to help educate families on the importance of wildlife in the desert. 200 people.

    $500 spent
    33% of program spending
  3. Monthly Open House to allow for visitors to explore and interact with our sculptures. Board members on hand for questions.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,500.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($63k) Expenses 100 ($18k) Net assets 100 ($45k)2023 Revenue 245 ($155k) Expenses 579 ($107k) Net assets 207 ($92k)2024 Revenue 107 ($67k) Expenses 400 ($74k) Net assets 193 ($86k)2025 Revenue 105 ($66k) Expenses 299 ($55k) Net assets 218 ($97k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (105)Expenses (299)Net assets (218)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $45k to $92k (+107%).

$45k
$92k
$86k
$97k
2022202320242025
Total assets

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

93% of Highway Sanctuary’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$45k
’22
$48k
’23
−$6k
’24
$11k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
2
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 Highway Sanctuary’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

Highway Sanctuary leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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

94% 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 Highway Sanctuary.

94%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

94% of Highway Sanctuary'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. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.

TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k 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

Highway Sanctuary runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Highway Sanctuary: 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 Highway Sanctuary?
Highway Sanctuary (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($85,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Highway Sanctuary have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $90,000 in grants to Highway Sanctuary, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Highway Sanctuary?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Highway Sanctuary find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2022–2025), 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