Iowa · Private foundation
Bruce & Sandy Heerema Charitable Foundat
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $72k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Bruce & Sandy Heerema Charitable Foundat funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $72k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $25k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $58k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $83k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $150k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $158k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $83k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Many Hands for Haiti | $100,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Pella Historical Society | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| 725 Ministries | $22,500 | 2 | 7% |
| Stories Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Unite | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Iowa State University Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Schok and Awe Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Third Reformed Church of Pella Iowa | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Technoserve Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cornerstone Church of Ames Iowa | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($591k), not named here.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Vermeer Charitable Foundation · Sam & Lisa Van Maanen Charitable Foundation · Vanden Bosch Foundation · Mark & Kay Decook Charitable Founda · R & L Vermeer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bruce & Sandy Heerema Charitable Foundat
- How much does Bruce & Sandy Heerema Charitable Foundat give?
- Bruce & Sandy Heerema Charitable Foundat reported 6 grants totaling $71,740 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bruce & Sandy Heerema Charitable Foundat fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (44%), International (14%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are Bruce & Sandy Heerema Charitable Foundat's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Many Hands for Haiti ($100k), Pella Historical Society ($25k), 725 Ministries ($23k).
- Does Bruce & Sandy Heerema Charitable Foundat fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bruce & Sandy Heerema Charitable Foundat accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bruce & Sandy Heerema Charitable Foundat?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vermeer Charitable Foundation, Sam & Lisa Van Maanen Charitable Foundation, Vanden Bosch Foundation.
- Where is Bruce & Sandy Heerema Charitable Foundat based?
- Bruce & Sandy Heerema Charitable Foundat is based in IA.
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