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Heck Family 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.

$89k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$419kFood & Nutrition$46kHealth$38kCommunity Improvement$29kReligion$18kPhilanthropy$12kHuman Services$7kPublic Benefit$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $9k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$27k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Stillwater Christian School$80,357
Easthaven Baptist Church$3,000
Whitefish Community Foundation$2,500
Alzheimer Association$1,000
Flathead Food Bank$1,000
Hope Pregnancy Ministries$1,000
Salvation Army$500
Little Bitteroot Lake Association Inc$50
Mayo Clinic$50
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%Montana Chamber of Commerce: $9k → 9%Alzheimer Association: $1k → 9%Stillwater Christian School: $80k → 11%Montana Chamber of Commerce: $4k → 9%Alzheimer Association: $750 → 9%Stillwater Christian School: $75k → 11%Montana Chamber of Commerce: $2k → 9%Missoula Economic Partnership: $1k → 9%Stillwater Christian School: $67k → 11%Montana Chamber of Commerce: $2k → 9%Missoula Economic Partnership: $1k → 9%Stillwater Christian School: $60k → 11%Montana Chamber of Commerce: $1k → 9%Stillwater Christian School: $60k → 11%Treasure State Foundation: $1k → 9%Stillwater Christian School: $55k → 11%Treasure State Foundation: $750 → 9%Stillwater Christian School: $50k → 11%Stillwater Christian School: $45k → 11%Flathead Food Bank: $40k → 11%Hope Pregnancy Ministries: $10k → 11%Hope Pregnancy Ministries: $9k → 11%Hope Pregnancy Ministries: $8k → 11%Easthaven Baptist Church: $6k → 11%Easthaven Baptist Church: $5k → 11%Hope Pregnancy Ministries: $5k → 11%Flathead Food Bank: $4k → 11%Easthaven Baptist Church: $4k → 11%Kalispell Chamber of Commerce: $3k → 11%Kalispell Chamber of Commerce: $3k → 11%Easthaven Baptist Church: $3k → 11%Hope Pregnancy Ministries: $2k → 11%FVCC Foundation: $2k → 11%FVCC Foundation: $2k → 11%Easthaven Baptist Church: $2k → 11%Hope Pregnancy Ministries: $1k → 11%FVCC Foundation: $1k → 11%Hope Pregnancy Ministries: $1k → 11%Flathead Food Bank: $1k → 11%West Valley Fire & Rescue: $1k → 11%FVCC Foundation: $1k → 11%Easthaven Baptist Church: $1k → 11%Flathead Food Bank: $1k → 11%Montana West Economic Development: $700 → 11%Kalispell Chamber of Commerce: $610 → 11%Whitefish Community Foundation: $5k → 11%Whitefish Community Foundation: $5k → 11%Whitefish Community Foundation: $3k → 11%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$642k · 13 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
19

Total granted

$642k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+1%

Still filing today

62%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • SC
    Stillwater Christian School
    9× · 2017–2025 · $493k · revenue +308%
  • FF
    FLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $47k · revenue +8%
  • HP
    HOPE PREGNANCY MINISTRIES OF KALISPELL MONTANA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • WV
    West Valley Fire & Rescue
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1k
  • MW
    Montana West Economic Development
    one grant, 2017 · $700
  • UW
    United Way
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +5%
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
Montana West Economic Development Foundation

The objective of the foundation is relief of conditions of poverty dependency, unemployment, and underemployment in and around the community of flathead county, montana.

Community Improvement
2
Flathead Community Foundation Inc

Mission: to enrich the lives of present and future generations by supporting philanthropy in the communities we serve by gathering donors' gifts in permanent endowments or pass-through funds; growing individual funds through wise…

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3
Flathead Community Health Center Inc

To promote and improve the health of the medically underserved population in the service area.

Health
4
Jobs Now Inc Dba Montana West Economic Development

To build upon the economic base in flathead county by assisting business startups and expansion activities with resources and valuable connections. montana west delivers local business economic development services targeted to impact job…

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5
Great Falls Area Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the great falls area chamber of commerce is to drive business success, connect leaders, cultivate partnerships, and shape community solutions to build a thriving future for great falls.

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6
Flathead Land Trust

Flathead land trust is dedicated to the conservation of northwest montana's land and water legacy through voluntary agreements with private land owners. flt's primary program service is private land conservation through voluntary…

Environment
7
Whitefish Chamber of Commerce

To promote the economic vitality of the city of whitefish, montana, and enhance the community's quality of life.

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8
Montana Business Leadership Council

The mblc exists to encourage and enact business-friendly policies that create good-paying jobs and make montana a better place to live. the primary purpose of the mblc is to educate the public on important business issues, enable citizens…

Community Improvement
9
Big Sky Resort Association Inc

Serving as the voice of business, the big sky chamber of commerce champions a healthy economy and works collaboratively with community stakeholders as a conveyor and a catalyst to improve the overall quality of life in the region.

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10
Flathead Electric Cooperative Inc

As a member owned cooperative, we strive to provide competitive and reliable service, achieve the highest level of member satisfaction and enhance the quality of life in our communities.

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11
Bozeman Area Chamber of Commerce

The bozeman area chamber of commerce, representing its membership, advocates economic vitality, high quality of life and preservation of the competitive enterprise system through leadership, vision and communication.

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12
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whitefish Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Stillwater Christian School. 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

20 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. 20 of the 36 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)
19/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Stillwater Christian School: $492,885 · OtherStillwater Christian SchoolEASTHAVEN BAPTIST CHURCH: $20,500 · Other+25 more: $41,113 · Other+25 moreFLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC: $46,500 · Food & NutritionHOPE PREGNANCY MINISTRIES OF KALISPELL MONTANA INC: $35,550 · Health+1 more: $50 · HealthWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 · PhilanthropyFLATHEAD ROTARY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyGOOD GRIEF GROUP DBA GOOD GRIEF CAMP: $6,550 · Human ServicesMISSOULA ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP: $2,500 · Community ImprovementKALISPELL DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION: $500 · Community ImprovementTREASURE STATE FOUNDATION: $1,750 · Public Benefit
Other$554,498Food & Nutrition$46,500Health$35,600Philanthropy$14,000Human Services$6,550Community Improvement$3,000Public Benefit$1,750

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 budgetStillwater Christian School: $492,885 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetFLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC: $46,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE PREGNANCY MINISTRIES OF KALISPELL MONTANA INC: $35,550 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetMONTANA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $18,040 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOULA ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP: $2,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTREASURE STATE FOUNDATION: $1,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFLATHEAD ROTARY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetKALISPELL DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION: $500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGLACIER HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB: $500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetFLATHEAD CANCER AID SERVICES INC: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTERN MONTANA: $250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC: $100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFLATHEAD CARE: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISSOULA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $100 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 Stillwater Christian School ↗
  • Who funds FLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE PREGNANCY MINISTRIES OF KALISPELL MONTANA INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GOOD GRIEF GROUP DBA GOOD GRIEF CAMP ↗
  • Who funds FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSOULA ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds TREASURE STATE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FLATHEAD ROTARY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds United Way ↗
  • Who funds KALISPELL DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds GLACIER HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB ↗
  • Who funds FLATHEAD CANCER AID SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTERN MONTANA ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
  • Who funds MDRC ↗
  • Who funds FLATHEAD CARE ↗
  • Who funds MISSOULA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗

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.

Dennis & Phyllis Wash…First Interstate Banc…Whitefish Community F…Gianforte Family Char…Montana Community Fou…Town Pump Charitable …United Way WorldwideEdward Jones Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…
Dennis & Phyllis Washington FoundationMT19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 Heck Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heck Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    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 · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Heck Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Heck Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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