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Heavensent 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.

$170k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$1.6MArts & Culture$1.2MHealth$188kHousing & Shelter$106kCrime & Legal$45kEnvironment$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$36kReligion$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
$11,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$33k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION$89,500
CAMILLUS HOUSE$20,000
RESCUE ROCK INC$12,378
LOS ANGELES VIRTUOSI ORCHESTRA$12,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$11,000
Veronica Sencion Foundation$10,000
EXPEDIENTE ROJO PROJECT INC$6,000
WE ARE LAUREL CANYON$6,000
ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTE OF AMERI$3,000
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.

US giving: 70% of grant dollars ($2.3M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 30% that went abroad ($965k) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $88k → 14%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.

Beyond the US: 30% of all-years giving ($965k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Dominican Republic$965k · 6 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 12 repeat orgs$259k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +104% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$3.0M
$237k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+104%
-6%

Still filing today

50%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • OI
    ORITEL INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +65% · 97% of their budget
  • NV
    NAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $144k · revenue +96%
  • CH
    CAMILLUS HOUSE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $106k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $109k · revenue -6%
  • EC
    EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $88k · revenue +70%
  • MS
    MANETTE SHREM MUSEUM PARTNERS
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
Victoria Sousa Foundation
Education
2
Oscar De La Hoya Foundation
Education
3
Andalusia Foundation
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4
The Soloviev Foundation
—
5
Alturas Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Chopin Foundation of the United States Inc

Support young american musicians and promote classical music among general audiences.

Arts & Culture
7
Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts Inc

The venezuelan american endowment for the arts mission is to promote through the visual and performing arts a deeper and richer understanding by venezualan citizens of u. s. culture, and by u.s. citizens of venezualan culture. it is also…

Arts & Culture
8
Ojai Festivals Ltd

The ojai music festival serves as a creative music laboratory for pioneering new works,championing adventurous programming, and working with today's emerging artists with events during the year and the ojai music festival serves as a…

Arts & Culture
9
Gustavo Dudamel Foundation Inc

Creativity encourages focus, discipline, respect, and imagination -- values that make us better global citizens and promote social justice. we believe that music transcends differences and encourages individual empowerment and social…

Arts & Culture
10
Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation

The latin grammy cultural foundation, through scholarships, fellowships, grants and education programs, furthers international awareness and appreciation of the significant contributions of latin music and its makers to the world's culture.

Arts & Culture
11
Fundacion Carvajal
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12
International Charitable Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edward Charles Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Isabel Allende Foundation. 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

11 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. 11 of the 25 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)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ORITEL INC: $1,519,920 · OtherORITEL INCTREBOL FOUNDATION: $955,075 · OtherTREBOL FOUNDATIONCAMILLUS HOUSE INC: $105,816 · Other+15 more: $275,351 · Other+15 moreNAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $144,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES VIRTUOSI ORCHESTRA INC: $54,001 · Arts & CultureELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $109,183 · HealthEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $87,500 · Human ServicesVAHAGN SETIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $2,200 · InternationalUNITED WAY MIAMI INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,856,162Arts & Culture$198,001Health$109,183Human Services$87,500Education$5,000International$2,200Philanthropy$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetORITEL INC: $1,519,920 over 7y, 97% of budgetNAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $144,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $109,183 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAMILLUS HOUSE INC: $105,816 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $87,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES VIRTUOSI ORCHESTRA INC: $54,001 over 7y, 11% of budgetCentral Coast Wine Classic: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetVAHAGN SETIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ISABEL ALLENDE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ORITEL INC ↗
  • Who funds NAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMILLUS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES VIRTUOSI ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Coast Wine Classic ↗
  • Who funds VAHAGN SETIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ISABEL ALLENDE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY MIAMI INC ↗

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Heavensent Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heavensent Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • United Way Miami Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Camillus House Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 25 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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