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Heidebrecht Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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Heidebrecht Family Charitable Trust

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.

$73k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Health$212kEducation$95kInternational$72kHuman Services$47kReligion$24kRecreation & Sports$19kFood & Nutrition$18kYouth Development$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,200
Median grant
13
States reached
$677k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$6,000
VIRGINIA TECH$3,300
STEVENSON UNIVERSITY$3,300
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$2,700
ALPHA PHI OMEGA$2,600
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH$2,600
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$2,600
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS RESEARCH$2,500
UNICEF$2,200
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$2,200
MSPCA-ANGELL'S METHUEN ANIMAL CARE$2,200
ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$2,200
GIRLS INC$2,200
MELROSE EDUCATION FUND$2,200
COMMUNITAS$2,200
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.

area typical 9%COMMUNITAS: $2k → 8%COMFORT ZONE CAMP: $2k → 9%COMMUNITAS: $2k → 8%COMFORT ZONE CAMP: $2k → 9%COMMUNITAS: $2k → 8%COMFORT ZONE CAMP: $2k → 9%COMMUNITAS: $1k → 8%COMFORT ZONE CAMP: $2k → 9%COMMUNITAS: $1k → 8%COMFORT ZONE CAMP: $2k → 9%COMMUNITAS: $1k → 8%COMFORT ZONE CAMP: $2k → 9%COMMUNITAS: $1k → 8%COMFORT ZONE CAMP: $2k → 9%COMFORT ZONE CAMP: $2k → 9%COMFORT ZONE CAMP: $1k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$517k · 43 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
17

Total granted

$517k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+13%

Still filing today

56%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
HealthInternationalReligionEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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

  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
    8× · 2018–2025 · $27k · revenue +479%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +33%
  • IA
    Interfaith Assistance Ministry Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $21k · revenue +807%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • HC
    HENDERSON COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -72%
  • PL
    PISGAH LEGAL SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +274%
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
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
2
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
5
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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6
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
7
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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8
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
9
Musc Strategic Ventures

To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…

Health
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arthritis Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Christian Agricultural Mission Serv. 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

37 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. 37 of the 68 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
25/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH: $26,475 · OtherALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCHIndividual grant recipient: $18,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $17,975 · OtherSLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $17,650 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCVIRGINIA TECH: $15,800 · OtherVIRGINIA TECHMSPCA-ANGELL'S METHUEN ANIMAL CARE: $14,650 · OtherMSPCA-ANGELL'S METHUEN ANIMAL CAREALPHA PHI OMEGA: $13,700 · OtherALPHA PHI OMEGAAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $10,925 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $8,500 · OtherIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC: $11,400 · Other+31 more: $76,450 · Other+31 moreTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $27,375 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION…American Heart Association Inc: $26,575 · HealthAmerican Heart Association I…ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $24,875 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INCST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $19,150 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH …Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $17,150 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $17,100 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC+4 more: $4,100 · HealthInterfaith Assistance Ministry Inc: $21,000 · Human ServicesInterfaith…COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC: $17,150 · Human ServicesCOMFORT ZO…COMMUNITAS INC: $10,650 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITAS…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $18,975 · InternationalMEDECINS …UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $17,150 · InternationalUNITED ST…American School in London Foundation: $5,500 · InternationalAmerican …CHRISTIAN AGRICULTURAL MISSION SERV: $3,775 · InternationalCHRISTIAN…MELROSE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $18,650 · EducationTOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $14,500 · EducationSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY: $3,300 · EducationVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $17,125 · ReligionUNITED MINISTRIES: $7,775 · ReligionEMORY GROVE ASSOC OF BALTIMORE INC: $4,600 · ReligionINTERFACE MINISTRIES INC: $3,000 · ReligionBALTIMORE AREA COUNCIL #220 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $14,950 · Youth Development
Other$232,325Health$136,325Human Services$48,800International$45,400Education$39,450Religion$32,500Youth Development$14,950

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $27,375 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $26,575 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $24,875 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Assistance Ministry Inc: $21,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $19,150 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $18,975 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMELROSE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $18,650 over 9y, 9.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $17,650 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $17,150 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOMFORT ZONE CAMP INC: $17,150 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $17,150 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $17,125 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $17,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE AREA COUNCIL #220 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $14,950 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $14,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC: $11,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $10,925 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITAS INC: $10,650 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES: $7,775 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican School in London Foundation: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMORY GROVE ASSOC OF BALTIMORE INC: $4,600 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCHRISTIAN AGRICULTURAL MISSION SERV: $3,775 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSTEVENSON UNIVERSITY: $3,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFACE MINISTRIES INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMELROSE ALLIANCE AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $2,200 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHENDERSON COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrisma Health-Upstate Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVES UNDER CONSTRUCTION RANCH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRISOMY 18 SUPPORT INC DBA TRISOMY 18 FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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 THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Interfaith Assistance Ministry Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds MELROSE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE AREA COUNCIL #220 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds TOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITAS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds American School in London Foundation ↗
  • Who funds EMORY GROVE ASSOC OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN AGRICULTURAL MISSION SERV ↗
  • Who funds STEVENSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds INTERFACE MINISTRIES INC ↗

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.

Ge Aerospace Foundati…Renaissance Charitabl…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Ge Aerospace FoundationCT10.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Communitas Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Melrose Alliance Against Violence Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Stevenson University: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 68 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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