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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
PSYCHOTROPIC DEPRESCRIBING COUNCIL$50,000
NEXT EDGE ARTS INC$50,000
HEINEMAN-ROBICSEK FOUNDATION$50,000
MARBLE HILL NURSERY SCHOOL$40,000
KBFUS FRIENDS OF THE VERBIER FESTIVAL$40,000
BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$40,000
NOMI NETWORK$40,000
American Dance Institute Inc$30,000
MISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE AND INSECTARIUM$30,000
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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Its 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. Its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MT
IL
NY
MA
CA
CO
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.
$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

+24%
+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
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

  • HF
    Heineman-Robicsek Foundation Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +227%
  • 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
  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +40%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +13%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 40 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
25/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 DevelopmentMadison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGO RUN MISSOULA: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetKIND INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMARBLE HILL NURSERY SCHOOL: $200,000 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetEQUICENTER INC: $200,000 over 4y, 4.3% 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 budgetFeeding America: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $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 budgetMadison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGO RUN MISSOULA: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetEASTIE FARM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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.

Rose Family FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Vanguard Charitable E…
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Eastie Farm Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Nu Deco Ensemble Inc: 1% of income from government
  • American Institute of Physics Inc: 0% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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