· Private foundation
Dorothy and Kenneth Heisler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GAMECOCK CLUB | $35,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $24,000 |
| ROSE CITY PARK PARTENT TEACHER ORGANIZAT | $24,000 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SHE CLIMBS MOUNTAINS | $7,000 |
| GREENVILLE SOCIETY FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MA | $5,000 |
| PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| OREGON DOG RESCUE | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +2% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CLCHICAGO LIONS CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +35%
- SOSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $37k · revenue +221%
- PLPAWMETTO LIFELINE2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- UWUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INCone grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue +22%
- RCROSE CITY PARK PARTENT TEACHER ORGone grant, 2024 · $25k
- FFFUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -86%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The organization is dedicated to saving pets from certain death in shelters, prevent animal neglect and cruelty, and reduce the overpopulation of unwanted pets.
Cause for paws, inc., is committed to ensuring the well-being of all cats and dogs, reducing pet overpopulation, building a strong base of animal advocates, and supporting the hutchinson animal shelter.
To Enrich the lives of both animals and people as a solution-based community resource for animal welfare by providing: high-volume and high-quality spay/neuter, rescue and adoption services, volunteer opportunities, outreach and education.
To create a better world for companion animals and the community through rescue,rehabilitation, education, spay and neuter programs and resources to underserved populations.
To save and protect homeless animals through responsible adoptions, to provide humane care for all animals entrusted to us, advocate for animal welfare and enhance the human-animal bond by promoting healthy relationships between pets in…
Animal rescue
To provide services to homeless animals
Seattle animal foundation (saf) is on a mission to make sure every animal finds the love, care, and forever home they deserve. since 2010, we have been a not-for-profit organization raising critical funds to support life-saving programs,…
Straydog rescues, rehabilitates, and rehomes abandoned and neglected dogs in a no-kill environment until each is adopted into a caring, loving home. it also acts as a sanctuary for those dogs who are never adopted.
Rescue, care, and find homes for abandoned and/or abused animals.
Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…
Rescue every dog is a shelter support organization whose mission is to find permanent homes for animals on rural shelter euthanasia lists.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Strasburg-Heisler Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 24 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO LIONS CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GAMECOCK CLUB ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds OREGON DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds PAWMETTO LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CURE INC ↗
- Who funds STRASBURG-HEISLER LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI Chicago ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds NEW HANOVER HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
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.
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
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 Dorothy and Kenneth Heisler 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Family Place Inc — 38% of income from government
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.