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Dorothy and Kenneth Heisler Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$125k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2026
8
Organizations funded FY2025
75%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 10
FY2022 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
5
Total assets, FY2026
$2.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 75% of the organizations Dorothy and Kenneth Heisler Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving9$125k56%
FY20258$115k75%
FY202410$105k60%
FY202310$75k70%
FY20224$130kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$142kHuman Services$79kRecreation & Sports$75kYouth Development$55kAnimals$40kPhilanthropy$35kHealth$15kEnvironment$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
OR
PA
CA
NC
SC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Special Operations Warrior Foundation$62,10040%
The Wes Foundation$55,000246%
Upstate Warrior Solution Inc$55,00012%
Chicago Lions Charitable Association$40,00026%
The Gamecock Club$35,00010%
Fund for Portland Public Schools$25,00011%
Project Lemonade Inc$25,0001n/a
Rose City Park Partent Teacher Organization$24,0001n/a
Oregon Dog Rescue$20,00040%
Naturaland Trust$15,0001n/a
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All grantees of Dorothy and Kenneth Heisler Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Special Operations Warrior Foundation$62,10040%
The Wes Foundation$55,000246%
Upstate Warrior Solution Inc$55,00012%
Chicago Lions Charitable Association$40,00026%
The Gamecock Club$35,00010%
Fund for Portland Public Schools$25,00011%
Project Lemonade Inc$25,0001n/a
Rose City Park Partent Teacher Organization$24,0001n/a
Oregon Dog Rescue$20,00040%
Naturaland Trust$15,0001n/a
Rise Up Community Farm$15,0001n/a
Pawmetto Lifeline$15,00030%
Women's Money Matters Inc$15,0001n/a
Genesis Womens Shelter & Support$12,00010%
New Hanover Humane Society Inc$10,00023%
Ocean Cure Inc$10,00024%
She Climbs Mountains$7,0001n/a
Strasburg-Heisler Library$6,45122%
Paws Place Inc$5,00011%
The Family Place Inc$5,00010%
NAMI Chicago$5,00010%
Pasadena Humane$5,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($84k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Dorothy and Kenneth Heisler Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSpecial Operations Warrior Foundation: $62,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Wes Foundation: $55,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetUpstate Warrior Solution Inc: $55,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetChicago Lions Charitable Association: $40,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetThe Gamecock Club: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFund for Portland Public Schools: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOregon Dog Rescue: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPawmetto Lifeline: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGenesis Womens Shelter & Support: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Hanover Humane Society Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetOcean Cure Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetStrasburg-Heisler Library: $6,451 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPaws Place Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Family Place Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC12.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Dorothy and Kenneth Heisler Foundation

How much does Dorothy and Kenneth Heisler Foundation give?
Dorothy and Kenneth Heisler Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $125,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2025.
What does Dorothy and Kenneth Heisler Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (31%), Human Services (17%), Recreation & Sports (16%).
Who are Dorothy and Kenneth Heisler Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2026: Special Operations Warrior Foundation ($62k), The Wes Foundation ($55k), Upstate Warrior Solution Inc ($55k).
Does Dorothy and Kenneth Heisler Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dorothy and Kenneth Heisler Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dorothy and Kenneth Heisler Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, McKesson Foundation Inc, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is Dorothy and Kenneth Heisler Foundation based?
Dorothy and Kenneth Heisler Foundation is based in MO.

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 29 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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