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Dr Harry J Heeb Foundation at a glance

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Dr Harry J Heeb Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$188k
Granted FY2026still arriving
18
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$482kHuman Services$102kEducation$93kEmployment$76kHousing & Shelter$60kAnimals$33kYouth Development$27kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0
02FY2026 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k8 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $137k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEYOND VISION$20,927
THE EYE INSTITUTE$20,000
GRACE MEDICAL HOME$15,000
CHRISTIAN HOME AND BIBLE SCHOOL$15,000
VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INC$12,000
LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA$12,000
CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER$11,933
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING$10,000
FORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC$10,000
CAMP BOGGY CREEK$10,000
ARC SUNRISE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$7,500
WELLPOINT CARE NETWORK$7,500
1000 GENERATIONS INC$7,000
OCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION$6,500
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE$6,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–26, $224k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $10k → 9%CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER: $12k → 10%OCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION: $7k → 10%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $7k → 14%CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER: $12k → 10%OCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER: $12k → 10%OCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER: $12k → 10%CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER: $10k → 10%CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER: $10k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA: $12k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA: $12k → 13%CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER: $7k → 10%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $7k → 13%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $7k → 13%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $6k → 13%NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $5k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA: $12k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA: $11k → 13%NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $3k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA: $10k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA: $10k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA: $10k → 13%NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $5k → 10%NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $3k → 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 20 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2026, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
5

Total granted

$1.0M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+35%

Still filing today

70%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • LC
    LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC
    7× · 2020–2026 · $77k · revenue +17%
  • CC
    Christian Care Center Inc
    7× · 2020–2026 · $75k · revenue +74%
  • FP
    FORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2020–2026 · $70k · revenue +152%

Funded once

  • MC
    MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN EYE INSTITU
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF LAKE AND SUMTER
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • GE
    GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +35%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lighthouse Works Inc

Empowerment through employment for blind or visually impaired individuals.

Human Services
2
Florida Center for the Blind Inc

The mission of the florida center for the blind is to foster hope, confidence and independence in individuals with visual impairments; and to educate the community about preventing vision loss.

—
3
The Lighthouse for the Blind in New Orleans Inc

To empower people with disabilities through employment, services and advocacy.

Health
4
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
5
Leader Dogs for the Blind

Empowering people who are blind or visually impaired with lifelong skills for safe and independent daily travel.

Human Services
6
Via Rehabilitation Services Inc

Our mission is to empower people with disabilities and their families to grow, develop, and thrive by providing essential skill-building, therapeutic, and recreational programs.

Health
7
Connections for Life

Empowering people with disabilities by providing services that promote independence, equality and intergration, enhancing their quality of life.

Health
8
Visability

Provide innovative training and tools for people who are blind or visually impaired to help them achieve their goals and dreams

Human Services
9
Direct Center for Independence Inc

Mission Advocated disability voice, choice, and independenceVision Universal access and justice

Human Services
10
Bestwork Industries for the Blind Inc

Bestwork industries for the blind, inc. is a non-profit organization that provides opportunities for training and productive employment for many people who are blind and visually impaired. bestwork industries works closely with the…

Employment
11
Homeward Bound Foundation

To support the charitable purposes of homeward bound, inc.

—
12
Vgs Inc

Providing work experience and employment for persons with significant disabilities through government contract work.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse Central Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mercy Flight Se Inc dba Angel Flight Southeast. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE EYE INSTITUTE: $125,000 · OtherTHE EYE INSTITUTEBEYOND VISION INC: $97,327 · OtherBEYOND VISION INCCHRISTIAN HOME AND BIBLE SCHOOL: $77,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN HOME AND BIBLE SCHOOLARC SUNRISE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $54,500 · OtherARC SUNRISE OF CENTRAL FLORIDAMARQUETTE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING: $40,000 · OtherMARQUETTE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSINGAUDIO AND BRAILE LITERACY: $31,500 · OtherAUDIO AND BRAILE LITERACYSIXTEENTH STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH: $22,000 · OtherMEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN EYE INSTITU: $20,000 · Other+5 more: $36,700 · Other+5 moreLIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $77,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORI…Christian Care Center Inc: $74,791 · Human ServicesChristian Care Center In…CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $29,036 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR IN…OCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION: $16,500 · Human ServicesOCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOC…NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $15,500 · Human ServicesNEW VISION FOR INDEPENDE…SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $11,500 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $87,000 · HealthVISION FORWARD ASSOCI…Grace Medical Home Inc: $70,000 · HealthGrace Medical Home In…THE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC: $47,500 · HealthTHE BOGGY CREEK GANG …+1 more: $5,000 · HealthFORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentFORWARD PATHS…1000 Generations Inc: $35,000 · Youth Development1000 Generati…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS …MKE URBAN STABLES INC: $8,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$504,027Human Services$234,327Health$209,500Youth Development$127,500Crime & Legal$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBEYOND VISION INC: $97,327 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $87,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $77,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetChristian Care Center Inc: $74,791 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetFORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetGrace Medical Home Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC: $47,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budget1000 Generations Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $29,036 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $22,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION: $16,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $15,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMKE URBAN STABLES INC: $8,000 over 2y, 1.1% 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 BEYOND VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds Christian Care Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds FORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Grace Medical Home Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC ↗
  • Who funds 1000 Generations Inc ↗
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds OCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds MKE URBAN STABLES INC ↗
  • Who funds WELLPOINT CARE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Flight SE Inc dba Angel Flight Southeast ↗

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.

Williams M M & R P Fd…Barry C Warren Fdn TaHunter Matthew & Mild…Martin G Roxy & Eliz …Dorothy B C Steves Ch…Mount Dora Community …Harper Family Charita…Donor Advised Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Williams M M & R P Fdn TaFL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Williams M M & R P Fdn Ta · Barry C Warren Fdn Ta · Hunter Matthew & Mildred Char Ta · Martin G Roxy & Eliz C Fdn Ta · Dorothy B C Steves Char Ta · Mount Dora Community Trust · Harper Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dr Harry J Heeb Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dr Harry J Heeb Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    9report 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
    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.

    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 28 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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