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Heinz Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $878k
- $50k–250k29 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+3 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GALA DOMENICA PORRAS KIM | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $206,000 |
| SUN VALLEY LACROSSE | $150,000 |
| DENVER FILM SOCIETY | $150,000 |
| INATURALIST | $125,000 |
| KHAN ACADEMY INC | $125,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $125,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,000 |
| INATURALIST | $125,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,000 |
| THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Heinz Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
131 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 67 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
- CFCenter for a New American Security Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +12%
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +26%
SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $603k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $250k
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +49%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $250k
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.
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The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Carversville Farm Foundation. 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.
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 31 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
221 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 221 of the 304 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Center for a New American Security Inc ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLYING GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOARWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Community Library Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SEED GLOBAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FOODCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds United States Ski Association ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RepresentUs Education Fund ↗
- Who funds Sun Valley Community School Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Spur Community Foundation Inc · Boswell Family Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · The Heinz Endowments · The Grable Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Von Der Heyden Family Foundation · The Nalen Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Sam and Peggy Grossman Family Foundation
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 Heinz Family Foundation 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.
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Rock Creek Conservancy Inc — 60% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
- Silent Spring Institute Inc — 12% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- Arts for the Aging Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rising Tide Capital Inc and Subsidiaries — 2% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 0% 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.
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