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Heizer 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.

$88k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$247kHealth$122kReligion$120kRecreation & Sports$29kArts & Culture$26kCommunity Improvement$24kYouth Development$23kEnvironment$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
$7,323
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLOOD CANCER UNITED$40,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADV FUND$15,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADV FUND$15,000
ACADEMY-MGMT ENTREPRENEURSHIP DIV$7,323
GENEVA FOUNDATION$5,000
MAYO CLINIC$2,500
RAGDALE FOUNDATION$2,000
CAMP TREETOPS & NORTH CNTRY DAY SCH$1,000
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 (FY18–23, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOOTHILLS CARING CORPS: $1k → 11%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $5k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $5k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $3k → 14%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

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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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$624k · 24 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +108% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
13

Total granted

$624k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+108%
+55%

Still filing today

46%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther

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

  • RF
    Ragdale Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +117%
  • AV
    ASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $20k · revenue +61%
  • LF
    LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +420%

Funded once

  • SC
    SCHWAB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • FC
    FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED F
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • SF
    SJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +55%

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
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

2
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
3
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
5
The Little Forks Conservancy Inc

To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.

Environment
6
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
7
The Minnesota Camp Fire Foundation

Ensure camp fire minnesota's strong future. with nature as the catalyst, camp fire minnesota energizes youth to discover their spark so their futures glow brighter.

Youth Development
8
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
9
Los Padres Forestwatch Inc

Los padres forestwatch protects the los padres national forest and the carrizo plain national monument through education, advocacy, and when necessary, legal action for the benefit of our communities, climate and future generations.

Environment
10
Lake Forest College

Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…

Education
11
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
12
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Forest Open Lands Association and 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

20 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. 20 of the 39 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
18/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADV FUND — $130,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADV FUNDFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $120,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $42,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR ADV FD — $40,000 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR ADV FDACADEMY-MGMT ENTREPRENEURSHIP DIV — $23,709 · OtherGENEVA FOUNDATION — $22,500 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $17,000 · Other+17 more — $76,216 · Other+17 moreBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $82,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED…MAYO CLINIC — $19,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $17,500 · HealthNATIONAL DISASTER S…SJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 · HealthThe Chicago Community Trust — $25,000 · PhilanthropyBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropyASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION — $2,750 · Recreation & SportsTHE KITA CENTERINC — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsRagdale Foundation — $23,400 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $750 · Arts & CultureLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION — $19,105 · EnvironmentInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America — $12,500 · Human ServicesFoothills Caring Corps Inc — $1,000 · Human Services
Other$491,425Health$125,000Philanthropy$26,000Recreation & Sports$24,750Arts & Culture$24,150Environment$19,105Human Services$13,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $82,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRagdale Foundation — $23,400 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetGENEVA FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION — $19,105 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $19,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America — $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION — $2,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KITA CENTERINC — $2,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFoothills Caring Corps Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBUQUERQUE KENNEL KOMPADRES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetELAWA FARM FOUNDATION — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLake Forest Police Foundation Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds The Chicago Community Trust
  • Who funds Ragdale Foundation
  • Who funds GENEVA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC
  • Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC
  • Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION
  • Who funds International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America
  • Who funds SJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE KITA CENTERINC
  • Who funds Foothills Caring Corps Inc
  • Who funds BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ALBUQUERQUE KENNEL KOMPADRES INC
  • Who funds ELAWA FARM FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Waukegan To College NFP
  • Who funds Lake Forest Police 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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Heizer 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 39 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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