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← HIGHER GROUND A RESOURCE CENTER

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by HIGHER GROUND A RESOURCE CENTER.

Totals

Total revenue
$0
Total expenses
$0
Contributions and grants received
$0
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$411,761
Total liabilities, end of year
$364,067
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$47,694
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$0
Management and general expenses
$0
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
not reported

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $359,257 · end of year $359,257

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $5 · end of year $5

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $44,119 · end of year $44,119

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $1,398 · end of year $1,398

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $43,736

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $39,754

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $3,982 · end of year $3,982

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $3,000 · end of year $3,000

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $136,965 · end of year $136,965

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $227,102 · end of year $227,102

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $12,033 · end of year $12,033

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $35,661 · end of year $35,661

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Our mission is to empower one life at a time to REACH, TRANSFORM and ELEVATE their community through love and building character.For us, Higher Ground is more than just a place, but rather, it's a culture-infusing catalyst that aims to create system-wide change, building up our high-need communities - one child and family at a time - and creating collaborative networks of support that ultimately uplift our entire city. Our vision is to inspire youth and families to be part of lasting community contribution. We want to create the momentum for lasting sustainable change in the way we develop our children and youth to redefine success as community contribution, where schools and youth organizations become places where an individual transformation leads to stronger collective impact in their own communities

Activities or mission (Part I)

As an organization that has been in service to its local communities, youth and families for the past 15 years, with sustained momentum, we at Higher Ground are not only on the "go," but also on the GROW!Over the course of the past years we have now grown to a new total of 7 active school sites. In addition, we are now in the final development and beta testing of our BeMapt app.As we push forward, our focus remains on our mission, by continuing to maintain the quality of our Restart SMART strategy through consistent training, monitoring, and measuring, toward the creation of a sustainable and replicable model that will impact public schools and other youth systems for years to come.

  • The Restart S.M.A.R.T. strategy, a local implementation of the community school model by Higher Ground, effectively organizes school and public resources to address specific community needs. By integrating trained staff within the school community, we provide a crucial link between community services and families facing opportunity gaps. Our collaborative approach, partnering with students, their families, and the wider community, promotes individualized success. Restart S.M.A.R.T. emphasizes evidence-based, strategic, mindful, agile, aware, resilient, and trauma-responsive decision-making in every interaction.In the year 2021-2022, we have expanded from 2 to 7 school sites across Tucson, with discussions for an 8th site in Chandler, Arizona. Our work is acknowledged as a full-fidelity implementation model of the community school strategy, with research partnerships demonstrating outcomes beyond mere attendance improvement and negative behavior reduction. In the 2021-2022 academic year, we engaged 2,083 students, collaborated with 124 groups, businesses, and organizations, worked with 300 families, and leveraged resources across our seven school communities.Our impact is evident through a 10% increase in school enrollment, a 6.11% reduction in chronic absenteeism, a 75% improvement in attendance among served students, and up to an 80% reduction in disciplinary incidents at our school sites.

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Ramon Valadez

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ken Heeter

    Board Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Barry Richardson

    Board Secretary (ended 12/

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alexys Rodgers

    Board Secretary (current)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Randi Dorman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bill Spurbeck

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael Anderson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael Guymon

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lori Malangone

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Theresa Tenace

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Charlinda Haudley

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jansen Azarias

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
7 May 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202501329349301535

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