· Private foundation
Heartland Midwest Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Waverly Riptide | $2,950 |
| The National Association for Amatuer Radio | $2,000 |
| Dogs for Better Lives | $1,530 |
| St Francis Service Dogs | $1,070 |
| New Beginnings | $1,015 |
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 (FY19–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +13% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- DFDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES6× · 2019–2024 · $5k · revenue +115%
- SFSAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS6× · 2019–2024 · $4k · revenue +12%
- DODogs on Deployment5× · 2018–2022 · $2k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- RBRIPTIDE BASEBALL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $1k
- NMNational MS Societyone grant, 2018 · $500
- G2Going 2 Dogsone grant, 2018 · $500
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.
Our mission is to strengthen disaster response in america by rescuing and recruiting dogs and partnering them with firefighters and other first responders to find people buried alive in the wreckage of disasters.
Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.
Dogs playing for life is redefining the meaning and importance of quality of life for all sheltered dogs by improving their experience through playgroups and individualized training, resulting in urgent and responsible livesaving.
The mission of Courthouse Dogs Foundation is to promote justice with compassion partnering with professionally trained facility dogs to provide support to everyone in the justice system. Most of these dogs are utilized to support children…
K9 hurricane's heroes, a federally recognized, non-profit organization, provides "retired law enforcement and military dogs" with subsidized veterinary care so they can live a long and healthy life. often these incredible dogs are the…
The mission of the corporation is to provide support for the war dogs of the united states military. the organization provides care packages to war dogs and their handlers serving overseas. the organization also provides support for…
To help abandoned dogs in kill shelters find permanent and responsible loving homes. We support and work with other reputable rescues who support our vision and standards.
Identify recipients for service dogs, match them with dogs suitable for them through professional dog trainers, and fund training for the dog/hero team with professional dog trainers.
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
To save, socialize and secure loving homes for unwanted or abandoned dogs.
To train and provide service dogs of the highest quality at no cost to disabled american veterans and others with mobile disabilities in order to help restore their physical and emotional independence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives and the most unlike its peers is Waverly Riptide. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 18 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 DOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES ↗
- Who funds WAVERLY RIPTIDE ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds Dogs on Deployment ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN RADIO RELAY LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL POLICE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
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: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Heartland Midwest 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.