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Heidt Foundation

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.

$51k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$151kHuman Services$75kEducation$68kArts & Culture$32kFood & Nutrition$12kInternational$6kRecreation & Sports$5kAnimals$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$195k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NC BreastFeeding Coalition$10,000
UNC Health Foundation$10,000
YMCA of the Triangle$10,000
Kay Yow Cancer Foundation$6,500
United Soccer Coaches Foundation$5,000
Norfolk Academy$5,000
Ashley and Zeke Marrie$1,000
Mariam Clinic$1,000
Planned Parenthood of SA$1,000
Ocean Park Volunteer Fire$500
Impact Global Health Alliance$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%American Red Cross: $500 → 14%Hospice of Southern Maine: $1k → 7%YMCA of the Triangle: $10k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $10k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $1k → 8%YMCA of the Triangle: $25k → 8%YMCA of the Triangle: $10k → 8%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$324k · 16 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
8

Total granted

$324k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+28%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters
    4× · 2020–2023 · $74k · revenue +63%
  • TN
    THE NORFOLK ACADEMY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $67k · revenue +22%
  • UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • YC
    YMCA - CARY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • CARY ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +28%
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
Mercy Medical Center

Like the Sisters of Mercy before us, we witness God's healing love for all people by providing excellent clinical services within a community of compassionate care. As an independent Catholic hospital, we pledge to enhance the health of…

Health
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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4
Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
5
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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6
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
7
Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health
8
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
9
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Dartmouth-hitchcock medical center's mission is to offer administrative, planning, and other services designed to promote, advance, and strengthen the interdependent and synergistic activities of the independent supported organizations in…

Health
10
University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health System Inc

To assist in the management of and to provide services to related healthcare affiliates.

Health
11
Humc Cardiovascular Partners Pc

The organization provides high quality medical care to the community that it serves and specifically provides cardiology & related professional medical services in conjunction with hmh hospitals corp.

Health
12
Harford Memorial Hospital Inc

Dedication to maintaining and improving the health of the people in its communities through an integrated health delivery system that provides high quality care to all.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unc Health Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

18 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. 18 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NORFOLK ACADEMY: $67,050 · EducationTHE NORFOLK ACADEMYUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $60,500 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INCKAY YOW CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · EducationKAY YOW CANCER FOUNDATION INCUNITED SOCCER COACHES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $74,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital of …+2 more: $1,500 · HealthThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $56,000 · Human ServicesThe Young Men's Ch…+2 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesNC BreastFeeding Coalition: $10,000 · OtherNC BreastFeed…YMCA - CARY: $10,000 · OtherYMCA - CARYHunton Young Mens Christian Association: $6,000 · OtherHunton Young …Dempsey Center Foundation: $3,000 · OtherDempsey Cente…OCEAN PARK VOLUNTEER RESCUE: $2,500 · OtherOCEAN PARK VO…Individual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual gr…Individual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherD'ART CENTER: $1,500 · Other+6 more: $4,350 · Other+6 moreTHE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED: $15,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CHRYS…THE MARINERS' MUSEUM: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MARIN…IMPACT GLOBAL HEALTH ALLIANCE: $3,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 · InternationalTransplanting Traditions Community Farm: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$145,550Health$75,500Human Services$57,500Other$41,850Arts & Culture$30,500International$5,500Food & Nutrition$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $74,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORFOLK ACADEMY: $67,050 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $60,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $56,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHRYSLER MUSEUM INCORPORATED: $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARINERS' MUSEUM: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKAY YOW CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHunton Young Mens Christian Association: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIMPACT GLOBAL HEALTH ALLIANCE: $3,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTransplanting Traditions Community Farm: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetD'ART CENTER: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCARY ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIAM CLINIC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Heidt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heidt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 30 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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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home