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Dennis John Heid Memorial Scholarship Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$101k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$924kMembership Benefit$30kArts & Culture$20k
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
$3,727
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$22,301
Individual grant recipient$14,725
Individual grant recipient$9,376
Individual grant recipient$8,926
Individual grant recipient$8,041
Individual grant recipient$6,042
Individual grant recipient$5,694
Individual grant recipient$4,417
Individual grant recipient$4,160
Individual grant recipient$3,727
Individual grant recipient$2,355
Individual grant recipient$2,100
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,727
Individual grant recipient$1,660
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HENRY T NICHOLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATI: $20k → 10%SANDY ANDRES: $9k → 14%MIGUEL LEON: $12k → 14%PI BETA PHI FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%JOSE CASTANEDA: $9k → 10%MONSERRAT ALEGRIA: $7k → 14%MIGUEL LEON: $10k → 14%JOSE CASTANEDA: $8k → 10%MIGUEL LEON: $8k → 14%VANESSA RICO: $6k → 10%KELSI VERDUGO: $9k → 14%MIGUEL LEON: $8k → 14%KELSI VERDUGO: $8k → 14%MONSERRAT ALEGRIA: $27k → 14%SANDY ANDRES: $16k → 14%MONSERRAT ALEGRIA: $9k → 14%MONSERRAT ALEGRIA: $8k → 14%THE WOODEN FLOOR: $20k → 10%ALLESSANDRA HUIZAR: $8k → 10%UCI FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%KALEB JIMENEZ: $30k → 10%KALEB JIMENEZ: $27k → 10%KALEB JIMENEZ: $27k → 10%KALEB JIMENEZ: $14k → 10%KALEB JIMENEZ: $12k → 10%KARLA DESTEPHEN: $9k → 10%KELSI VERDUGO: $21k → 10%CHRISTINA ARROYO: $15k → 10%CRISTINA ARROYO: $14k → 10%JHOVANY LOPEZ: $14k → 10%CRISTINA ARROYO: $14k → 10%DANIEL CARRANZA: $13k → 10%CHRISTINA ARROYO: $10k → 10%DANIEL CARRANZA: $8k → 10%LINA LUONG: $8k → 10%ANTONIO ARROYO: $6k → 10%CHRISTINA ARROYO: $6k → 10%DANIEL CARRANZA: $6k → 10%JHOVANY LOPEZ: $6k → 10%ADAM MARTINEZ: $11k → 10%ADAM MARTINEZ: $6k → 10%DANGKHOA NGUYEN: $12k → 10%DANGKHOA NGUYEN: $11k → 10%DANGKHOA NGUYEN: $9k → 10%ISABELLA GUILLEN: $22k → 10%ISABELLA GUILLEN: $22k → 10%ISABELLA GUILLEN: $17k → 10%ISABELLA GUILLEN: $15k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$797k · 40 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
19

Total granted

$797k
$163k

Still filing today

0%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2019–2023 · $110k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2022–2025 · $76k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2018–2022 · $53k

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +51%
  • PB
    PI BETA PHI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -55%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
How this is measured

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

04Its field
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $110,488 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $76,419 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $52,802 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $43,821 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $42,803 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $33,131 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $32,316 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,789 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,460 · OtherPI BETA PHI FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Other+52 more: $399,727 · Other+52 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationHENRY T NICHOLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT: $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$882,756Education$50,000Philanthropy$20,000Arts & Culture$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPI BETA PHI FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PI BETA PHI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HENRY T NICHOLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dennis John Heid Memorial Scholarship Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dennis John Heid Memorial Scholarship Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Dennis John Heid Memorial Scholarship Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dennis John Heid Memorial Scholarship 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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