Tennessee · Private foundation
Hees Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $111k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $24,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations Hees Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $87k | 54% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $86k | 64% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $36k | 64% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $12k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $31k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $18k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $27k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $22k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Step for Life Inc | $33,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Kirtland Community College Foundation | $22,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Cornerstone University | $21,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Kent County Inc | $17,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Mackenzie's Animal Sanctuary Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Hilarity for Charity Inc | $14,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Nazarene Fund | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Electric Lodge | $7,000 | 1 | 2% |
| AuSable Artisan Village | $6,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Nextstep for Life Inc | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($116k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hees Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Hees Family Foundation
- How much does Hees Family Foundation give?
- Hees Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $111,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Hees Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Philanthropy (21%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Hees Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Next Step for Life Inc ($33k), Kirtland Community College Foundation ($22k), Cornerstone University ($21k).
- Does Hees Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hees Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hees Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Christian Community Foundation Inc, Baird Foundation Inc.
- Where is Hees Family Foundation based?
- Hees Family Foundation is based in TN.
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