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Heil Family 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.

$590k
Granted FY2019
45
Grants FY2019
5
States reached
$136k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MEducation$302kHealth$84kCommunity Improvement$82kYouth Development$69kPhilanthropy$56kHousing & Shelter$20kEnvironment$18kOther$0
02FY2019 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k34 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $391k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILWAUKEE BALLET$136,050
IMAGINE MKE$100,000
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN$90,000
MILWAUKEE FILM$65,000
88NINE RADIO MILWAUKEE$25,000
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM$20,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILW$20,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN$16,000
UNITED WAY FUND OF GREATER MILWAUKEE$15,000
MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN$10,000
UW FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
WISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND$5,000
AIDS RESOURCE CENTER OF WISCONSIN$5,000
CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HEART PRODUCTIONS: $19k → 10%WALLPAPERED CITY: $7k → 6%MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART: $5k → 6%UW FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%IMAGINE MKE: $183k → 17%THE FIELD: $5k → 17%CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%UW FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%IMAGINE MKE: $100k → 17%CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%WALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORP: $5k → 17%WALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORP: $5k → 17%WALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORP: $5k → 17%MILWAUKEE FILM: $85k → 17%MILWAUKEE FILM: $65k → 17%MILWAUKEE FILM: $55k → 17%MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM: $20k → 17%MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM: $20k → 17%MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM: $20k → 17%MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER: $6k → 17%88NINE RADIO MILWAUKEE: $25k → 17%88NINE RADIO MILWAUKEE: $20k → 17%88NINE RADIO MILWAUKEE: $20k → 17%UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $15k → 17%UWM FILM FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE BALLET: $136k → 17%MILWAUKEE BALLET: $135k → 17%MILWAUKEE BALLET: $35k → 17%UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND: $17k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN: $16k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN: $16k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN: $16k → 17%PUBLIC POLICY FORUM: $6k → 17%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $90k → 17%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $90k → 17%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $90k → 17%GREATER MILWAUKEE FDN -IMAGINE MKE: $82k → 17%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILW: $21k → 17%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILW: $20k → 17%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILW: $20k → 17%UNITED WAY FUND OF GREATER MILWAUKEE: $15k → 17%GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%UNITED WAY FUND OF GREATER MILWAUKEE: $10k → 17%WISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND: $10k → 17%UNITED WAY FUND OF GREATER MILWAUKEE: $10k → 17%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 33 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
10

Total granted

$1.6M
$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-1%

Still filing today

76%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $306k · revenue +5%
  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $270k · revenue +54%
  • MILWAUKEE FILM INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $205k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • GM
    GREATER MILWAUKEE FDN -IMAGINE MKE
    one grant, 2017 · $82k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $19k
  • UF
    UWM FILM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

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2
Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education
3
Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Inc

Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
4
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
5
Milwaukee World Festival Inc

The corporation shall be a civic organization not organized for profit but operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes including in furtherance thereof, the production of an annual festival in the milwaukee metropolitan…

Arts & Culture
6
Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture
7
Milwaukee Public Museum Endowment Fund

Supporting the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of the milwaukee public museum.

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8
The Uwm Foundation Inc

The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…

Education
9
Milwaukee Youth Arts Center Inc

To provide the finest collaborative environment for: supporting performing arts training and education for a diverse population of youth; nurturing youth from diverse ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, instilling life-skills…

Arts & Culture
10
Milwaukee Water Commons Inc

Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…

Environment
11
Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc

Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.

Environment
12
Artworks for Milwaukee Inc

ArtWorks mission is preparing youth for tomorrow by providing transferable career skills through arts internships today. More than 1,450 high school students have completed ArtWorks internships since our inception.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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

39 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. 39 of the 58 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
27/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC: $306,050 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INCImagine MKEInc: $282,671 · Arts & CultureImagine MKEIncMILWAUKEE FILM INC: $205,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE FILM INCRADIO MILWAUKEE INC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureRADIO MILWAUKEE INCMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC+11 more: $67,500 · Arts & Culture+11 moreGREATER MILWAUKEE FDN -IMAGINE MKE: $82,102 · OtherGREATER MILWAUKEE FD…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILW: $61,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB …UNITED WAY FUND OF GREATER MILWAUKEE: $35,000 · OtherUNITED WAY FUND OF G…MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC: $30,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE …Individual grant recipient: $18,500 · OtherIndividual grant rec…UWM PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $17,500 · OtherUWM PECK SCHOOL OF T…+21 more: $75,100 · Other+21 moreTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $270,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCO…+2 more: $9,000 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $48,000 · HealthVIVENT HEALTH INC: $15,000 · HealthTHE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $6,000 · HealthWISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterWALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORPORATION: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyLAKE PARK FRIENDS LTD: $3,000 · PhilanthropyAURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,500 · Animals
Arts & Culture$986,221Other$319,202Education$299,000Health$81,500Housing & Shelter$35,000Philanthropy$25,500Animals$4,500

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 budgetMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC: $306,050 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetImagine MKEInc: $282,671 over 2y, 20% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $270,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE FILM INC: $205,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetRADIO MILWAUKEE INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $48,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC: $20,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetVIVENT HEALTH INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORPORATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVERY WORLD LTD: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDANCEWORKS INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSafe & Sound Inc: $3,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRUE SKOOL INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLAKE PARK FRIENDS LTD: $3,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmericans for the Arts Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS AT LARGE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCK THE GREEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,000 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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Baird Foundation IncRichard and Ethel Her…United Way of Greater…Bert L and Patricia S…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Green Bay Packers Fou…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Milwaukee Jewish Fede…Hauske Family Foundat…
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI40.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Hauske Family Foundation Inc

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 58 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $737k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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