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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.

$9k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,530
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,950
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$50k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Heartland Midwest Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$9k20%
FY20234$4k50%
FY20226$3k50%
FY20217$3k14%
FY20207$3k29%
FY20197$3k71%
FY20184$2kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Animals$9kRecreation & Sports$5kHuman Services$5kArts & Culture$4kPublic Benefit$1kEducation$1kHealth$750Science & Tech$100Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
OR
SD
PA
CT
CA
NE
MO
VA
NM
KS
NC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives$5,06060%
Waverly Riptide$4,2002n/a
Saint Francis Service Dogs$4,14560%
Dogs on Deployment$2,03250%
Keystone Foundation$1,02230%
New Beginnings$1,01510%
Riptide Baseball Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Kansas Police Dog Association$1,0004n/a
The American Radio Relay League Inc$1,00030%
National Police Dog Foundation Inc$26010%
Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Heartland Midwest Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives$5,06060%
Waverly Riptide$4,2002n/a
Saint Francis Service Dogs$4,14560%
Dogs on Deployment$2,03250%
Keystone Foundation$1,02230%
New Beginnings$1,01510%
Riptide Baseball Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Kansas Police Dog Association$1,0004n/a
The American Radio Relay League Inc$1,00030%
National Police Dog Foundation Inc$26010%
Heartland Humane Society Inc$26020%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$25020%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Heartland Midwest Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives: $5,060 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Francis Service Dogs: $4,145 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDogs on Deployment: $2,032 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKeystone Foundation: $1,022 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew Beginnings: $1,015 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Radio Relay League Inc: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Police Dog Foundation Inc: $260 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHeartland Humane Society Inc: $260 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Ge Aerospace FoundationCT11.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Heartland Midwest Foundation

How much does Heartland Midwest Foundation give?
Heartland Midwest Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $8,565 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Heartland Midwest Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (34%), Recreation & Sports (19%), Human Services (19%).
Who are Heartland Midwest Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Dogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives ($5k), Waverly Riptide ($4k), Saint Francis Service Dogs ($4k).
Does Heartland Midwest Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Heartland Midwest Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Heartland Midwest Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ge Aerospace Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Network for Good.
Where is Heartland Midwest Foundation based?
Heartland Midwest Foundation is based in KS.

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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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