· Private foundation
Heersink 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.
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 |
|---|---|
| Dothan Adolescent Community Youth Advisory Council | $499 |
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 US giving — 84% of grant dollars ($4.2M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 16% that went abroad ($770k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Beyond the US — 16% of all-years giving ($770k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +118% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 8 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $499 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
- SFSTOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC2× · 2021–2022 · $60k · revenue +118%
- ACALABAMA-FLORIDA COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA3× · 2018–2023 · $11k · revenue +308%
- WMWIREGRASS MUSEUM OF ART INC2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +255%
Funded once
- FOFriends of McMaster Incone grant, 2018 · $770k
- DMDOTHAN MONTESSORI SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -52% · 42% of their budget
- WUWIREGRASS UNITED WAY INCone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue -1%
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.
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
To support the university of north alabama in its educational endeavors.
To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects
The alabama public health association, inc., is an association of individuals and organizations interested in public health in alabama. the mission of the association is to link individuals and organizations in addressing public health…
The mission of united way of west alabama is to promote the general welfare of the citizens of west alabama by: raising funds, on an annual basis, to assist the effective delivery of health and human care programs and services, allocating…
The alabama forestry association works to promote good stewardship of our renewable forest resources for the benefit of society, our members, and the forest products industry.
To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.
The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…
The foundation's purpose is to sponsor and encourage the efforts of the alabama school of fine arts. the school is the beneficiary of all gifts and charitable disbursements, and qualifies for such due to its not for profit status.
To educate, empower, and improve services for mental health consumers in the state of alabama.
Collect & distribute funds to approved agencies in monroe county alabama
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Southeast Alabama Medical Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stop Foodborne Illness Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 20 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 TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOTHAN MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STOP FOODBORNE ILLNESS INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA-FLORIDA COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Last Coconut Foundation Inc FKA The Sandel Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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: The Coleman Foundation · Wiregrass Foundation · Bruce G Cochener Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Heersink Family 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.