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Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$578k
Granted FY2023
27
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$270k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

54% of Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Hamilton Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 19 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 19 organizations, $578k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’18
27
’20
26
’21
19
’22
19
’23
25
’24
19
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Education$1.4MPhilanthropy$926kArts & Culture$243kHealth$174kHuman Services$165kHousing & Shelter$135kRecreation & Sports$122kEnvironment$72kOther$0
02FY2023 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k18 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $147k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $93k
  • $250k+1 grant · $270k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEBRASKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$270,000
HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$92,500
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$27,000
AURORA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP$25,000
HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION$25,000
NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$25,000
HAMILTON COUNTY RECREATION INC$25,000
CAMBRIDGE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$10,000
NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION$10,000
THE NEBRASKA MASONIC HOME$6,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$6,000
MASONIC-EASTERN STAR HOME FOR CHILDREN$6,000
BEAVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER$5,000
CHADRON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL$5,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF NEBRASKA INC$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SUTTON COMMUNITY HOME FOUNDATION: $14k → 10%EPWORTH VILLAGE: $6k → 11%FULLERTON'S FUTURE INC: $8k → 11%LEMOYNE SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 11%MID-NEBRASKA INDIVIDUAL SERVICES INC: $4k → 13%PANHANDLE PARTNERSHIP INC: $2k → 16%EPWORTH VILLAGE: $5k → 11%FULLERTON'S FUTURE INC: $5k → 11%EPWORTH VILLAGE: $5k → 11%EPWORTH VILLAGE: $5k → 11%EPWORTH VILLAGE: $5k → 11%EPWORTH VILLAGE: $5k → 11%EPWORTH VILLAGE: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 23% of Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NE; read by stated purpose it is 96% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.9% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 39 repeat orgs$243k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
19

Total granted

$2.2M
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
-3%

Still filing today

74%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NC
    NEBRASKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $670k · revenue +67%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $263k · revenue +57%
  • NW
    NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $176k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • HR
    HAMILTON RECREATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -64%
  • NV
    NEBRASKA VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +8%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION OF MCCOOKgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +46%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Memorial Community Health Inc

Providing primary healthcare services from beginning to end in order to improve lives through community health services.

Health
2
Nebraska Hospitality Association

To promote the restaurant industry

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3
Adams County Historical Society

Services include providing public with educational resources including research, maps, photos, and historical news of adams county, nebraska.

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4
Nebraska Health Care Foundation

To ensure that there will be an adequate number of highly trained nurses and dietary staff to care for the residents of the state's nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

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5
Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame Foundation

High school sports hall of fame foundation

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6
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
7
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
8
Henderson Health Care Services Inc

We are a nonprofit, community based health care network whose mission is to promote professional, competent, ethical and compassionate health care in the name of christ to individuals, families and community.

Health
9
Nebraska Hospital Association Research and Educational Foundation

To provide educational opportunities that enable nha members to be up-to- date and responsive to health care challenges and reforms. the foundation is committed to providing the highest-quality, cost-effective and readily accessible health…

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10
Health Center Association of Nebraska

Support the state's federally qualified health centers in providing accessible and quality health care.

Health
11
Nebraska Medical Foundation

To support activities, including the awarding of scholarships to medical students, promote the wellness and health of citizens in nebraska, provide education on medical subjects, and other research projects consistent with its activities.

Health
12
Jefferson Community Health Center Inc

Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hamilton Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bremer Community Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyGolf Clubs and Recreational…School District FoundationsYouth Sports OrganizationsNebraska Industry Associati…Professional & Trade Associ…Early Childhood Care CentersFamily Crisis Support Servi…Community Theater & Perform…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%6%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr13%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr17%3%20–35yr11%13%35–55yr13%75%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
15%
8,108/53,691

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 68 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
25/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEBRASKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC — $670,000 · EducationNEBRASKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INCUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $262,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $176,000 · EducationNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYHASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationHASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION+1 more — $14,000 · EducationHAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $901,351 · PhilanthropyHAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION I…+2 more — $27,000 · PhilanthropyHAMILTON RECREATION INC — $50,000 · OtherHAMILTON RECREATION…NEBRASKA FOR PUBLIC TELEVISION — $40,000 · OtherNEBRASKA FOR PUBLIC…THE NEBRASKA MASONIC HOME — $36,000 · OtherTHE NEBRASKA MASONI…SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF NEBRASKA INC — $32,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF…AMERICAN RED CROSS — $28,000 · OtherPHILLIPS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $26,000 · OtherHAMILTON COUNTY RECREATION INC — $25,000 · OtherPRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INST — $72,000 · OtherPRAIRIE PLAINS RESO…BREMER COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $25,000 · OtherNEBRASKA VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Other+26 more — $229,420 · Other+26 moreHAMILTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $124,270 · Arts & CultureEDGERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $52,000 · Arts & CultureNEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureNEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $17,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION — $12,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $13,000 · Arts & CultureAURORA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP — $125,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $2,000 · Housing & ShelterSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $42,000 · HealthCambridge Memorial Hospital Inc — $25,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR ANNIE JEFFREY — $25,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION OF MCCOOK — $20,000 · HealthTHE SHRINE BOWL OF NEBRASKA INC — $7,000 · Health+1 more — $2,500 · HealthMASONIC-EASTERN STAR HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $42,000 · Human ServicesEPWORTH VILLAGE INC D/B/A EPWORTH FAMILY RESOURCES — $36,000 · Human ServicesSUTTON COMMUNITY HOME FOUNDATION — $13,500 · Human ServicesFullertons Future Inc — $12,500 · Human ServicesMID-NEBRASKA INDIVIDUAL SERVICES INC — $4,000 · Human Services+2 more — $4,000 · Human Services
Education$1,272,500Philanthropy$928,351Other$583,420Arts & Culture$248,270Housing & Shelter$127,000Health$121,500Human Services$112,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $901,351 over 7y, 15% of budgetNEBRASKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC — $670,000 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $262,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $176,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 6y, 65% of budgetAURORA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP — $125,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetHAMILTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $124,270 over 4y, 18% of budgetPRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INST — $72,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetEDGERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $52,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetHAMILTON RECREATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetMASONIC-EASTERN STAR HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $42,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $42,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEPWORTH VILLAGE INC D/B/A EPWORTH FAMILY RESOURCES — $36,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NEBRASKA MASONIC HOME — $36,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCambridge Memorial Hospital Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ANNIE JEFFREY — $25,000 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetBREMER COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $25,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetHEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEBRASKA VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION OF MCCOOK — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $17,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARC OF NEBRASKA INC — $15,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetHASTINGS SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetMEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetHAMILTON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC — $13,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetFullertons Future Inc — $12,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetHAMILTON COUNTY YOUTH CENTER — $12,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHADRON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL CORPORATION — $11,420 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONNECTION HOMELESS SHELTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE SHRINE BOWL OF NEBRASKA INC — $7,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetGROW NEBRASKA — $7,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMALCOLM YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTABLE OF GRACE MOBILE FOOD PANTRY — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBEAVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetAMERICAN VETERANS PARK — $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMID-NEBRASKA INDIVIDUAL SERVICES INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEMOYNE SENIOR CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHEARTLAND COUNSELING SERVICES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAPPY JACK CHALK MINE ASSOCIATION — $2,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHALL COUNTY HERO FLIGHT ASSOCIATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCATTLEMEN'S BALL OF NEBRASKA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCUSTER COUNTY FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARK THALLANDER FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPANHANDLE PARTNERSHIP INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AURORA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PRAIRIE PLAINS RESOURCE INST ↗
  • Who funds EDGERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON RECREATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MASONIC-EASTERN STAR HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds EPWORTH VILLAGE INC D/B/A EPWORTH FAMILY RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds THE NEBRASKA MASONIC HOME ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Cambridge Memorial Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ANNIE JEFFREY ↗
  • Who funds BREMER COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION OF MCCOOK ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF NEBRASKA INC ↗
  • Who funds HASTINGS SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SUTTON COMMUNITY HOME FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds Fullertons Future Inc ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON COUNTY YOUTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Nebraska Community Fo…Hamilton Community Fo…The Sherwood Foundati…Frank M & Alice M Far…Hirschfeld Family Fou…Robert & Bethel Kolar…Lincoln Community Fou…Heuermann Family Char…Wortman Family Charit…Robert B Daugherty Fo…Land O'Lakes Foundati…Dr James M Woodard an…
Nebraska Community FoundationNE34.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nebraska Community Foundation · Hamilton Community Foundation Inc · The Sherwood Foundation · Frank M & Alice M Farr Trust · Hirschfeld Family Foundation Inc · Robert & Bethel Kolar Charitable Trust · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Heuermann Family Charitable Trust · Wortman Family Charitable Trust · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Dr James M Woodard and Mabel Woodard Trust

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bernard K and Norma F Heuermann Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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