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Heineman Foundation for Research Educational

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.

$957k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$144k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$1.8MEducation$1.2MArts & Culture$1.2MFood & Nutrition$542kCrime & Legal$495kYouth Development$335kScience & Tech$323kEnvironment$320kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $295k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $662k
$40,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEINEMAN-ROBICSEK MEDICAL OUTREACH INC$144,000
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS$118,375
FOODLINK INC$90,000
CLARK FORK COALITION$60,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs$50,000
GO RUN MISSOULA$50,000
HEINEMAN-ROBICSEK FOUNDATION$50,000
NEXT EDGE ARTS INC$50,000
PSYCHOTROPIC DEPRESCRIBING COUNCIL$50,000
KBFUS FRIENDS OF THE VERBIER FESTIVAL$40,000
BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$40,000
NOMI NETWORK$40,000
MARBLE HILL NURSERY SCHOOL$40,000
American Dance Institute Inc$30,000
MISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE AND INSECTARIUM$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WOMEN'S STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS: $25k → 10%WOMEN'S STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS: $25k → 10%WOMEN'S STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
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IL
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MA
CA
CO
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DC
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.2M · 23 repeat orgs$722k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
11

Total granted

$6.2M
$557k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+40%

Still filing today

91%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentScience & TechEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • HF
    Heineman-Robicsek Foundation Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +72%
  • RI
    READING IN MOTION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $720k · revenue +12%
  • ND
    NU DECO ENSEMBLE INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $417k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • UA
    UNITED AID FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -91% · 26% of their budget
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +13%
  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +40%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Middle East Investment Initiative Inc

Middle east investment initiative, inc. (meii) stimulates sustainable economic activity and long-lasting job creation in the middle east and north africa (mena) by designing and deploying finance and technical assistance programs to…

Community Improvement
2
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
3
Michigan Biotechnology Institute

Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.

Education
4
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
5
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
6
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
7
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
8
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
9
Orcid Inc

Orcid provides an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. we provide open tools that enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their…

Education
10
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
11
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
12
United States Artists Inc

To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Domestic Violence ServicesFood Banks and PantriesDance Arts OrganizationsSchool District FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesYouth Development CentersEquine Therapy ProgramsElementary Literacy TutoringOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/33
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,532

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.

04the grantee network

33 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
25/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Heineman-Robicsek Foundation Inc — $1,513,276 · OtherHeineman-Robicsek Foundation IncBREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $284,222 · OtherBREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient — $150,000 · OtherMARBLE HILL NURSERY SCHOOL — $200,000 · OtherMARBLE HILL NURSERY SCHOOLEQUICENTER INC — $200,000 · OtherEQUICENTER INC+16 more — $778,500 · Other+16 moreREADING IN MOTION — $720,000 · Arts & CultureREADING IN MOTIONNU DECO ENSEMBLE INC — $417,000 · Arts & CultureNU DECO ENSEMBLE INCNEXT EDGE ARTS INC — $355,000 · Arts & CultureNEXT EDGE ARTS INCOpportunity Music Project — $185,300 · Arts & CultureOpportunity Music ProjectAMERICAN DANCE INSTITUTE — $90,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $15,000 · Arts & CultureFOODLINK INC — $315,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $100,000 · Food & NutritionEASTIE FARM INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionTransplanting Traditions Community Farm — $37,000 · Food & NutritionNOMI NETWORK INC — $295,000 · Crime & LegalKIND INC — $200,000 · Crime & LegalCLARK FORK COALITION — $310,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $150,000 · EnvironmentMadison Square Boys & Girls Club — $235,000 · Youth DevelopmentGO RUN MISSOULA — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentMadison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC — $258,375 · Science & TechAIP FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Science & Tech
Other$3,125,998Arts & Culture$1,782,300Food & Nutrition$502,000Crime & Legal$495,000Environment$460,000Youth Development$335,000Science & Tech$273,375

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHeineman-Robicsek Foundation Inc — $1,513,276 over 8y, 12% of budgetREADING IN MOTION — $720,000 over 7y, 9.9% of budgetNU DECO ENSEMBLE INC — $417,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetNEXT EDGE ARTS INC — $355,000 over 5y, 46% of budgetFOODLINK INC — $315,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCLARK FORK COALITION — $310,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetNOMI NETWORK INC — $295,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetBREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $284,222 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC — $258,375 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMadison Square Boys & Girls Club — $235,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEQUICENTER INC — $200,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetMARBLE HILL NURSERY SCHOOL — $200,000 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetKIND INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOpportunity Music Project — $185,300 over 2y, 41% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED AID FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN DANCE INSTITUTE — $90,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetWOMENS STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS — $75,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetMISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE AND INSECTARIUM — $62,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGO RUN MISSOULA — $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetEASTIE FARM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMadison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK — $40,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMOTHERS' MILK BANK OF MONTANA INC — $40,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetTransplanting Traditions Community Farm — $37,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetAIP FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND — $10,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetReading Opens Your World Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budget
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.

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.

Rose Family FoundationNC15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Heineman Foundation for Research Educational 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Eastie Farm Inc13% of income from government
  • Nu Deco Ensemble Inc1% of income from government
  • American Institute of Physics Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Heineman Foundation for Research Educational?

Find your warmest path to Heineman Foundation for Research Educational through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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