· Private foundation
Heller Foundation Inc
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k46 grants · $129k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $132k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM | $26,071 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE | $26,071 |
| NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERV | $26,071 |
| THE GUNNERY | $22,588 |
| MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARC | $11,000 |
| KYLE'S KORNER INC | $10,000 |
| GUNN MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC | $10,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $7,589 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,089 |
| NORTH SUBURBAN SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $7,000 |
| NORTHBRIDGE | $6,320 |
| ST CHRISTOPHER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $6,000 |
| CITIZENS' CLIMATE EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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
- TFTHE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC2× · 2017–2018 · $44k · revenue +72%
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +54%- MAMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- SBSANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +80%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ATLANTAone grant, 2017 · $6k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CENTRAL AND None grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
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 organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 40 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
37 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 58 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
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 THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds GUNN MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds KYLES KORNER INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SENO KRLT CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WETLANDS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds NICOLET HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP ↗
- Who funds GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SWIFT YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART 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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Humanities Council Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Marcus Corporation Foundation Inc · Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc) · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Ge Aerospace 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 Heller Foundation Inc 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.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.