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HIGHER GROUND USA INC

EIN 82-0512146 KETCHUM, ID

Revenue 2024
$5,228,763
Expenses 2024
$5,324,425

Program services were 81.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
N30
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 6791

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • KATHERINE DOBBIE

    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $172,037
    From this org
    $141,397
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,640
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,397
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,050
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,590
    Filer's total
    $172,037

  • ALYSSA EAGAN

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $159,325
    From this org
    $121,063
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $38,262
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $121,063
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,510
    Nontaxable benefits
    $34,752
    Filer's total
    $159,325

  • BRIAN VON HERBULIS

    CHIEF OPERATION OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $146,189
    From this org
    $119,667
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,522
    Hours/week
    40

  • ERIN RHEINSCHILD

    DIRECTOR OF PHILANTHROPY

    Total calculated
    $144,412
    From this org
    $116,520
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,892
    Hours/week
    40

  • THOMAS MISTELE

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • ERIN PFAEFFLE

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MICHAEL SPACHMAN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RICK BRUDER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SPIKE BOOTH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RICK EMSIEK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE GILMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVE HENNESSEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL LANAHAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JIM LASKI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEFF RUST

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • AMANDA O'GRADY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,228,763
    Expenses
    $5,324,425
    Contributions
    $5,339,599
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,851,617
    Expenses
    $5,128,126
    Contributions
    $5,141,154
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,726,238
    Expenses
    $4,842,635
    Contributions
    $5,508,548
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.