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Heartfelt Wings Foundation Inc

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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$10.0MScience & Tech$1.5MHealth$281kArts & Culture$230kPhilanthropy$200kInternational$11kAnimals$5kHousing & Shelter$1k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $94k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$12,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY$50,000
THE JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC$36,500
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY$25,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$12,000
SAINT ELIZABETH UNIVERSITY$10,000
LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION$10,000
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC$5,000
WETHERSFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC$1,000
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 (FY18–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%MISSION POSSIBLE - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: $10k → 7%The Viscardi Center: $5k → 6%The Viscardi Center: $5k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
VA
MD
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 9 repeat orgs$255k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$12M
$225k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
-19%

Still filing today

78%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthScience & TechPhilanthropyOther
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

  • Fairfield University
    8× · 2018–2025 · $9.9M · revenue +84%
  • CS
    COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY
    4× · 2018–2021 · $1.5M · revenue +10%
  • PC
    PURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $143k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • CI
    COMPANIONS IN COURAGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue 0% · 51% of their budget
  • MP
    Mission Possible Dominican Republic Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +109%
  • GF
    Group Foundation for Advancing Mental Health Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -40%
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
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
2
Children's Hospital Pathology Foundation Inc

The Foundation's mission is to provide pathology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the field…

Health
3
Saybrook University

Saybrook University relentlessly pursues a socially just, sustainable world by educating humanistic leaders to transform their fields and communities.

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4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
6
Commonwealth Cancer Consortium Inc

Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…

—
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
8
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc; the most unlike its peers is Purple Crayon Productions Inc. 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, 2017–2025.

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. 17 of the 21 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Fairfield University: $9,875,000 · EducationFairfield University+4 more: $111,500 · EducationCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $1,500,000 · Science & TechCOLD SPRING H…Hospital For Special Surgery: $197,000 · OtherAmerican Group Psychotherapy Association: $50,000 · Other+3 more: $8,000 · OtherPURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS INC: $142,500 · Arts & CultureJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $82,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $6,000 · Arts & CultureCOMPANIONS IN COURAGE FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyMission Possible Dominican Republic Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE VISCARDI CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGroup Foundation for Advancing Mental Health Inc: $10,000 · HealthBONE MARROW & CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Health
Education$9,986,500Science & Tech$1,500,000Other$255,000Arts & Culture$231,000Philanthropy$200,000Human Services$30,000Health$11,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFairfield University: $9,875,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $1,500,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOMPANIONS IN COURAGE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetPURPLE CRAYON PRODUCTIONS INC: $142,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetMOLLOY UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $82,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMission Possible Dominican Republic Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGroup Foundation for Advancing Mental Health Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSaint Elizabeth University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBONE MARROW & CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJustWorld International Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStoryBook Treasures Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Heartfelt Wings Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heartfelt Wings Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Saint Elizabeth University: 2% of income from government
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Heartfelt Wings Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Heartfelt Wings Foundation Inc 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 21 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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