· Private foundation
Hegner Family Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Hegner Family Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Hegner Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $27k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| TURNING POINT | $5,000 |
| FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE | $5,000 |
| SAVANNA INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| HAYSTACK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF CRAFTS | $3,000 |
| WORMFARM INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2019, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +101%- TPTurning Point Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +57%
- WIWORMFARM INSTITUTE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- TSTIGERPLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $4k
- SISAVANNA INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $4k
- LLLAKESIDE LEGACY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $400 · revenue +77%
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.
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.
A farming and education center, The Museums at Prophetstown offers a unique experience of educating and demonstrating all aspects of farm life.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Grounds For Sculpture combines art and beckoning spaces to welcome, surprise, and engage all visitors in the artists act of invention.
To serve as an accelerator of practical solutions for agriculture, accelerating people and ideas. we accomplish this through our non-partisan, objective, and multistakeholder approach to education, innovation and policy.
Growing a local food system where the health of people and planet come first
Groundswell International strenghtens communities to build healthy farming and food systems from the ground up.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Michael fields agricultural institute's mission is to help rural and urban farms and agricultural communities in wisconsin and beyond be healthy environmentally, economically, and socially.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
Preservation of agricultural land.
To vigorously accelerate the permanent protection and stewardship of farmland.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 13 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Turning Point Inc ↗
- Who funds WORMFARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Haystack Mountain School of Crafts ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDE LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF MCHENRY COUNTY ↗
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 Chicago Community Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hegner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hegner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Florida Studio Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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