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Heartland Foundation

Champion education and empower people.

$706k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$436k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$3.6MEducation$111kCrime & Legal$50kPhilanthropy$14kCommunity Improvement$9k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $456,979, the rows itemized in this filing. The $706,460 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $249,481 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
  • $250k+1 grant · $436k
$10,519
Median grant
1
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Heartland Regional Medical Center$436,460
Northwest Medical Center Foundation Inc (Mosaic Foundation - Albany)$10,519
Missouri Physicians Health Program$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Edge Factor USA Inc: $24k → 14%Missouri Physicians Health Program: $10k → 11%Albany R-III School District: $28k → 15%Northwest Missouri State University: $11k → 17%Heartland Regional Medical Center: $2.3M → 18%Edge Factor USA Inc: $15k → 14%Missouri Physicians Health Program: $10k → 11%Northwest Medical Center Foundation: $26k → 15%SSM Health St Francis Hospital: $10k → 17%Heartland Regional Medical Center: $436k → 18%Northwest Medical Center Foundation Inc (Mosaic Foundation - Albany): $11k → 15%NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 17%HEARTLAND REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER (MOSAIC-ST JOSEPH): $350k → 18%Mosaic Medical Center - Maryville: $12k → 18%St Joseph Area Chamber of Commerce: $9k → 18%Community Foundation of Northwest Missouri: $8k → 18%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI: $5k → 18%Missouri Western State University: $250k → 18%St Joseph Youth Alliance: $50k → 18%Missouri Western State University: $50k → 18%SOCIAL WELFARE BOARD: $20k → 18%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 6 repeat orgs$429k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$3.3M
$429k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-31%
+63%

Still filing today

83%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • HR
    Heartland Regional Medical Center
    4× · 2020–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +24%
  • PF
    PROJECT FIT AMERICA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $74k · revenue -73%
  • MS
    MISSOURI STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION PHYSICIANS HEALTH FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue -31%

Funded once

  • MW
    MISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +1%
  • MW
    MISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • SJ
    SAINT JOSEPH YOUTH ALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +63%
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
Missouri Delta Medical Center Foundation

Fundraising for capital improvements, scholarships, and other healthcare programs for missouri delta medical center.

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2
Northwest Medical Center Association Inc

To put the needs of the patient first by empowering a culture where caregivers bring their best, ensuring a healthier future for generations to come.

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3
St Mary's Health Center Jefferson City Mo Foundation

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

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4
Missouri Delta Medical Center

Missouri delta medical center is a not for profit corporation which will strive to provide a complete health care system to residents in the service area either directly or in cooperation with others. referral agreements will be sought for…

Health
5
Ssm Health Care St Louis

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

Health
6
Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center Inc

We, saint joseph regional medical center (sjrmc) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.sjrmc is a member of trinity health.

Health
7
Northland Health Care Access

Operating an integrated community health system providing access to health care for the uninsured low income residents of three counties in Missouri

Health
8
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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9
Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center Inc

Southeast iowa regional medical center is dedicated to improving the region's health by providing high-quality care, world-class customer service, and uncompromising value for our patients and their families.

Health
10
Ssm Health Care Group

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

Health
11
Ssm Health Foundation - St Louis

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the health presence of god.

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12
Ssm-Sluh Inc

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ssm Regional Health Services; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Free Clinic 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

12 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. 12 of the 15 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)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Heartland Regional Medical Center: $3,091,017 · HealthHeartland Regional Medical Center+4 more: $78,151 · HealthMISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · OtherMISSOURI WESTE…PROJECT FIT AMERICA: $74,035 · OtherPROJECT FIT AM…MISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherMISSOURI WESTE…MISSOURI STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION PHYSICIANS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $45,000 · OtherMISSOURI STATE…Edge Factor USA Inc: $38,534 · OtherEdge Factor US…Albany R-III School District: $27,885 · OtherAlbany R-III S…+1 more: $9,166 · OtherSAINT JOSEPH YOUTH ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 · Crime & LegalNORTHWEST FOUNDATION INC: $18,614 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSOURIINC: $13,721 · Philanthropy
Health$3,169,168Other$494,620Crime & Legal$50,000Education$18,614Philanthropy$13,721

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 budgetHeartland Regional Medical Center: $3,091,017 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPROJECT FIT AMERICA: $74,035 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH YOUTH ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMISSOURI STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION PHYSICIANS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetNorthwest Medical Center Foundation Inc: $36,619 over 2y, 11% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FREE CLINIC INC: $19,500 over 1y, 25% of budgetNORTHWEST FOUNDATION INC: $18,614 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSOURIINC: $13,721 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMosaic Medical Center Maryville: $11,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSSM REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICES: $10,182 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $9,166 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Heartland Regional Me…Wm and Margaret Schre…Commerce Bancshares F…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Heartland Regional Medical CenterMO17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Heartland Regional Medical Center · Wm and Margaret Schreiber Char Tr · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Heartland Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heartland Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 15 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $237k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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