· Private foundation
Heidemann-Wuest Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMAL COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW | $30,000 |
| San Antonio Livestock Exposition | $27,092 |
| NEW BRAUNFELS FOOD BANK | $20,218 |
| PESH INC | $5,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO ZOO | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN | $3,208 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY PTO | $2,000 |
| Guadalupe County Livestock Show | $2,000 |
| HERITAGE SOCIETY OF NEW BRAUNFELS | $1,000 |
| Backing Ag Raising Youth (Bar-Y) | $1,000 |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $1,000 |
| Hope Hospice | $1,000 |
| Comal Youth Shooting Sports | $1,000 |
| TEXAS TOURISM FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +53% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 6 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- SASAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +60%
- SASAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $83k · revenue +53%
- HHHOPE HOSPICE8× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
- ARAmerican Red Crossone grant, 2020 · $3k
Compassion International Incorporatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue 0%
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.
Promote, protect and enhance the Parks System of New Braunfels, TX through education, resource development and community partnerships.
To educate by encouraging the preservation of the natural beauty of new braunfels and comal county and of historic buildings, objects, and places, thus keeping the unique heritage alive.
Provide support for the new braunfels public library
The new braunfels area community foundation develops and encourages a culture of philanthropy by accepting gifts, administering funds, investing assets, and making grants to charitable organizations on behalf of donors for the greater…
Provide support for charitable organizations and community
Provide Fire protection & Prevention to the New Berlin Tx Community and surrounding areas of Guadalupe County TX
St. paul luthern church endowment foundation was created to support the mission and activities of st. paul evangelical luthern church in new braunfels, texas.
Provide support for the New Braunfels High School Marching Band
Preserve the history of brazoria county, texas.
To enhance the quality of life in the coastal bend area of texas through charitable and educational grants.
The organizations mission is to preserve railroad artifacts and memorabia in a museum setting. in addition the organization seeks to educate the public about the historic significance of the rail system in new braunfels, tx.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections Individual and Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Canyon Lake High School Athletic Booster Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 74 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 SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRAUNTEX PERFORMING ARTS THEATER ASS ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds Heritage Society of New Braunfels Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW BRAUNFELS PUBLIC LIBRARY FTD ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Canyon Lake High School Athletic Booster Club ↗
- Who funds TARLETON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BRAUNFELS FOUNDATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW BRAUNFELS ECONOMIC DEVELOPME ↗
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: New Braunfels Area Community Foundation · Natural Bridge Wildlife Heritage Foundation Inc · McKenna Foundation · Ingram Family Foundation · Veramendi Charitable Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · United Way of Comal County · The Gvtc Foundation Inc · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · San Antonio Food Bank · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 Heidemann-Wuest 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.