Montana · Nonprofit
Highwood Public School Foundation
Highwood Public School Foundation (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,000 to it, the largest being HARRISON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($155,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $74k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $156k
- Net assets
- $53k
What Highwood Public School Foundation does
Mission
The primary exempt purpose of the foundation is to support the public school or schools in highwood mt and the improvement of the community of highwood. The foundations support of the k-9 highwood public school is organized around five "pillars": technology including stem instruction "discovery grants" requested by faculty building and grounds improvements arts music shop speech drama and debate and athletics
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Under the discovery grant pillar teachers make written application to the foundation board of directors for grants which are paid by the foundation to the school to fund supplemental classroom teaching materials outside instructors and off-campus experiences. In 2024 the foundation funded six discovery grants totaling $4,240. Discovery grant funding was used by teachers a to repair usical instruments owned by the school b to pay the cost of new classroom maps and c to pay a portion of the registration fees and travel costs for students in the introduction to agriculture class to attend two conference on agriculture leadership skills and cattle judging.
$4,240 spentof which $4,240 as grants3% of program spendingIn 2024 the foundation provided much-needed faculty housing to the highwood public school by purchasing a newly-manufactured three bedroom two bath house and having that house installed on a concrete foundation on a school-owned lot adjacent to the school. The foundation provided funding supervised the purchase and installation and using volunteers landscaped the lot - manufactured house $117,040; concrete and site work $32,000; utilities hoop up $5,000 and gutters $2,428 for a total cost of $157,488. Title to the faculty house is held by the school. The school is responsible for ongoing maintenance and insurance and for the rental of the faculty house. That house was promptly upon its completion occupied my a middle school teacher .
$158,687 spentof which $158,687 as grants97% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $162,927.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $142k to $53k (−63%).
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.
97% of Highwood Public School Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $50k.
From the IRS filings of Highwood Public School Foundation’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
Highwood Public School Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 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
100% of Highwood Public School Foundation's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Highwood Public School Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,682 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,682 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Highwood Public School Foundation
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Highwood Public School Foundation: 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 Highwood Public School Foundation?
- Highwood Public School Foundation (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,000 to it, the largest being HARRISON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($155,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Highwood Public School Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $156,000 in grants to Highwood Public School Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Highwood Public School Foundation?
- HARRISON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Highwood Public School Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), 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