· Private foundation
Heartland Bank 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GARFIELD COUNTY FRONTIER FAIR ASSOCIATION | $37,500 |
| BREMER CENTER | $5,000 |
| HAMPTON VETERANS MEMORIAL | $5,000 |
| YMCA OF HASTINGS NEBRASKA | $5,000 |
| HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CALAMUS AREA COMMUNITY FUND | $5,000 |
| HASTINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AMHERST PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $2,500 |
| HPS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 22 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, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JCJEFFERSON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC3× · 2022–2024 · $38k · revenue +28%
- YOYMCA OF HASTINGS NEBRASKA4× · 2022–2025 · $20k
- FCFILLMORE COUNTY HOSPITAL2× · 2023–2024 · $17k
Funded once
- GPGENEVA PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENTone grant, 2022 · $8k
- FVFCF - VETERANS MEMORIAL PARKone grant, 2023 · $5k
- KPKEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +3%
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.
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.
The harvard community foundation is dedicated to the future by encouraging donations for social, cultural, and educational progress in harvard, nebraska.
Jcf connects people, ideas, and resources to build a future of opportunity for all in jefferson county.
To support, foster, and protect the harrison regional chamber of commerce mission
The foundation receives contributions from donors in the community and then through the above gifts and grants enriches the community through strategic grant making in the fields of the arts, education, housing, social services, civic…
To solicit, invest, and disburse funds as grants and scholarships for the educational, charitable, artistic, social and civic benefit of the citizens in the surrounding community.
Forum for community concerns
Charitable and educational support for the hamilton county exposition in hamilton county iowa
Support and promote overall health and wellness within the Harper County, Kansas, area and surrounding communities
Management of funds to benefit the local community
We lead, serve and collaborate with donors to create enduring philanthropy.
To promote local businesses and business development in fairfield, iowa
Support for community colleges
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 87 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 GARFIELD COUNTY FRONTIER FAIR ASSOC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRBURY CIVIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Wortman Family Charitable Trust · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Heartland Bank Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heartland Bank Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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