· Private foundation
Heider Family Foundation Co Susan H Coleman
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 $10k10 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $99k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $213k
Anchored by a single position — about 99% of reported assets are held in Berkshire Hathaway Cl A.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALL SOULS CATHOLIC PARISH | $148,000 |
| ALL SOULS CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $65,000 |
| ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| BELLA HEALTH WELLNESS | $25,000 |
| SEEDS OF HOPE CHARITABLE TRUST | $24,000 |
| HOPE IGNITES COLORADO | $20,000 |
| SACRED HEART HOUSE | $7,500 |
| CATHOLIC SPORTS | $5,000 |
| CHRIST IN THE CITY | $5,000 |
| CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| FOCUS | $5,000 |
| EMMAUS CATHOLIC HOSPICE | $5,000 |
| ST SEBASTIAN PROJECT | $2,500 |
| CAMP WOJTYLA | $2,500 |
| PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $290k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
Learning Ally Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $230k · revenue +106%- CUCreighton University5× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +48%
- COCOLORADO OPEN LANDS8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +215%
Funded once
- BHBELLA HEALTH & WELLNESSone grant, 2021 · $15k
- GAGUARDIAN ANGELS CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $3k
- STST THERESE CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
St. Anne's Episcopal School is a PK-8 independent school dedicated to fostering academic excellence, character development, and a strong sense of community, guided by our core values of community, curiosity, faith, compassion, and humility.
Bringing souls face to face with the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Christ and forming missionaries of the New Evangelization. The organization has realized this mission by providing music and production services for worship events.
As the charitable arm of the archdiocese of denver and inspired by god's love and compassion, catholic charities extends the healing ministry of jesus christ to the poor and those in need. catholic charities of the archdiocese of denver…
Annunciation heights is a catholic youth and family camp nestled at the base of longs peak in the heart of colorado's majestic rocky mountains. we seek to glorify god by leading our guests into the depth and mystery of a personal…
We make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
Summit Classical Christian School is a PreK-12 school that exists to cultivate generations of joyful disciples of Christ by partnering with faithful Christian families to educate their children from a Biblical worldview using classical…
To work alongside our catholic schools office and the dallas community to strengthen, grow the impact of, and provide broad-based access to our k-8 catholic schools.
Cherry Hills Christian School awakens the educational experience by preparing students to live fully for God in a rapidly changing world, knowing they are His masterpieces, uniquely designed for His purpose.
Ascend College Prep is a public high school for 10-12th grade students in Colorado Springs and the surrounding area. Our Mission is to "Prepare and inspire students to become lifelong learners and responsible citizens through rigorous…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seeds of Hope Charitable Trust and the most unlike its peers is Summit County Library Foundation. 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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 36 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 Learning Ally Inc ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ENDOW ↗
- Who funds HAVEN OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Camp Wojtyla Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SPORTS ↗
- Who funds SAINT SEBASTIAN PROJECT DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES COLORADO ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds Alternatives Pregnancy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGED ↗
- Who funds Christ in the City ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
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 Catholic Foundation No Colorado · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Daniels Fund · Mile High United Way Inc · Weckbaugh Foundation · JJP Family Foundation Inc · Jk Mullen Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · John & Florence Fortune Foundation · Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trust
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 Heider Family Foundation Co Susan H Coleman 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.
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
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.