· Private foundation
Hees Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OTSEGO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $24,500 |
| MACKENZIE'S ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $15,000 |
| CRAWFORD AUSABLE EDUCATION EXCELLENCE | $12,500 |
| CORNERSTONE UNIVERSITY | $11,000 |
| NEXT STEP FOR LIFE INC | $8,000 |
| ELECTRIC LODGE | $7,000 |
| 413 STRONG | $5,000 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE | $3,500 |
| TENNESSEE STATE PARKS CONSERVANCY | $3,000 |
| VAN BUREN CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| ISAIAH 117 HOUSE | $2,500 |
| DOYLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $2,500 |
| THE DREAM CENTER | $2,000 |
| THE REFUGE OF EASTERN NC | $2,000 |
| AIDNET OF GREENE COUNTY | $1,750 |
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 human-services grants (FY18–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- NSNEXT STEP FOR LIFE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +125%
- KCKIRTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $22k · revenue +109%
- HFHILARITY FOR CHARITY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $14k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- TNTHE NAZARENE FUNDone grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue -92%
- MHMUNFORD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONSone grant, 2019 · $8k
- AAAuSable Artisan Villageone grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue +8%
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.
Rahab House is deeply committed to the rescue, refuge, and restoration of human trafficking survivors. We provide comprehensive support that encompasses immediate safety and connections to long-term restorative care in alignment with the…
Habitat for humanity of greater chattanooga (hfh-gc) brings together businesses, churches, and other community organizations in partnership with low income families to spark authentic transformation in our city through the construction of…
Habitat for humanity of williamson-maury (hfhwm) seeks to put god's love into action by partnering with communites to build affordable housing, inspiring hope and life-changing stability for families through homeownership.
To advocate on behalf of those in need of decent shelter by building and renovating affordable houses.
Create decent, affordable housing for those in need, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.
Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.
Habitat for humanity of cleveland is a non-profit christian housing ministry. habitat works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities for people in need by building and selling houses…
The village at glencliff's mission is to provide a healing community for medically vulnerable, unhoused nashvillians to safely recover, stabilize their lives, and imagine their futures.
Housing for recovery is dedicated to providing safe, stable, and supportive housing environments for individuals navigating substance use and mental health challenges. through structured recovery housing settings, the organization promotes…
Habitat for humanity of north idaho works in partnership with the community to build decent, energy efficient houses for qualified families in kootenai county.
To put gods love into action by bringing people together to build homes, communities, and hope. it is an ecumenical christian housing ministry partnering with community volunteers to assist families who are working toward the purchase of a…
To provide quality care, facilities and supportive services for adults with a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury or mental illness. being enabled by god, we strive to provide an intentionally christian environment and program…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nextstep for Life Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mackenzie's Animal Sanctuary Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 68 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 OTSEGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEXT STEP FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds KIRTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone University ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MACKENZIE'S ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds HILARITY FOR CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NAZARENE FUND ↗
- Who funds ELECTRIC LODGE ↗
- Who funds AuSable Artisan Village ↗
- Who funds NEXTSTEP FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Tennessee State Parks Conservancy ↗
- Who funds 413 STRONG INC ↗
- Who funds POWER BOOK BAGS ↗
- Who funds CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT MARGARET CLITHEROW ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COOKEVILLE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds EMERALD CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
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 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
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 Hees 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.
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