How much does Heizer Foundation give?

Heizer Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $87,823 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Heizer Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (34%), Health (17%), Religion (17%).

Who are Heizer Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Blood Cancer United Inc ($82k), Ragdale Foundation ($23k), Geneva Foundation ($23k).

Does Heizer Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Heizer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Heizer Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.

Where is Heizer Foundation based?

Heizer Foundation is based in IL.

Heizer Foundation

Heizer Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$40k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $18k
$10k–50k3 grants · $70k

$7,323

Median grant

States reached

$1.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$624k · 24 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +108% since the first grant, against +55% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$624k

$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+108%

+55%

Still filing today

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther

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

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%

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.

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.

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Kennebunk Land Trust

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

Environment

Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

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

Food & Nutrition

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

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

Education

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

Climate Foundation

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

Science & Tech

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

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

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

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

Arizona Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Forest Open Lands Association; 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 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. 20 of the 39 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/20

Grantees still filing

17/20

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$491,425Health$125,000Philanthropy$26,000Recreation & Sports$24,750Arts & Culture$24,150Environment$19,105Human Services$13,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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

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

2024

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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, 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home