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Heritage Classic Foundation

The HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION's primary exempt purpose is to distribute the net profits from a pga tour event to local and statewide charities.

$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
79
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$259k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$4.3MHealth$3.7MRecreation & Sports$3.2MEducation$1.9MYouth Development$1.4MPhilanthropy$959kHuman Services$855kAnimals$731kOther$0
02FY2024 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $119k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+1 grant · $259k
$27,791
Median grant
3
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMORY MATTERS$258,853
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LC$238,050
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB HILTON HEAD$229,915
HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCH$219,047
SOUTH COASTAL FCA$214,983
VOUNTEERS IN MEDICINE$196,338
POCKET FULL OF SUNSHINE$161,031
HILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOC$157,383
ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLI$155,822
COASTAL COMMUNITIES DEV$114,900
MITCHELLVILLE PRESERVATION$107,596
AMERICAN RED CROSS$100,000
COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM$93,658
CHILDRENS CENTER$82,324
OSPREY VILLAGE$65,379
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 (FY17–24, $954k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BLUFFTON COMMUNITY SOUP KITC: $30k → 12%BLUFFTON COMMUNITY SOUP KITC: $8k → 12%CHILDRENS CENTER: $82k → 10%CHILDRENS CENTER: $74k → 10%CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND: $48k → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH: $41k → 10%CHILDRENS CENTER: $39k → 10%CHILDRENS CENTER: $38k → 10%CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND: $35k → 10%CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND: $32k → 10%CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND: $31k → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH: $27k → 10%CHILDRENS CENTER: $24k → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH: $21k → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH COUNCIL: $21k → 10%CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND: $16k → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREEACH: $15k → 10%CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND: $13k → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH COUNCIL: $9k → 10%CHILDRENS CENTER: $6k → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREEACH: $5k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE BEAUFORT: $45k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE BEAUFORT: $44k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE BEAUFORT: $37k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE BEAUFORT: $32k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE BEAUFORT: $25k → 10%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOP: $36k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE BEAUFORT: $22k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE BEAUFORT: $17k → 10%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOP: $23k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE BEAUFORT: $10k → 10%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOP: $14k → 10%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOP: $12k → 10%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOP: $6k → 10%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PERSONS: $3k → 10%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PERSONS: $2k → 10%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

IL
NY
CA
VA
TN
SC
OK
GA
TX

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 103 repeat orgs$476k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

103 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103
32

Total granted

$19M
$225k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+41%

Still filing today

82%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • HH
    HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +45%
  • TV
    THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +102%
  • MM
    MEMORY MATTERS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • HH
    Hilton Head Firefighters Association Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $55k · revenue -50% · 35% of their budget
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF HILTON HEAD
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • EA
    Endeavor Athletics
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -311%

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
South Carolina Golf Association

To preserve, promote, and serve the game of golf

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2
Carolinas Golf Association

The cga is a non-profit service organization that was formed in 1909 to conduct championships and tournaments for amateur golfers in north and south carolina, administer the usga handicap system in the carolinas, and support its membership…

Recreation & Sports
3
Hilton Head Students Incentive Fund
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4
South Carolina Junior Golf Foundation

Establish necessary funding to create opportunities for youth through education and recreation as well as maintaining and expanding junior golf programs

Education
5
Friends of the Hilton Head Library

The Friends of the Hilton Head Library was organized as a non-profit organization to promote literacy and encourage the pursuit of life long learning through use of the library's resources. We raise funds to help our library be the…

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6
Rotary Club of Hilton Head Island Charitable Foundation

The rotary club of hilton head island charitable foundation is the funding arm of all of the community projects and charitable efforts of the rotary club of hilton head island. it provides a simple, tax efficient way for everyone - club…

Philanthropy
7
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
8
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

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9
South Carolina Tennis Association Inc

To develop, maintain, and promote the game of tennis.

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10
South Carolina National Heritage Corridor

The organization's primary mission is a grassroots initiative that advances sustainable development of natural, cultural and historic resources for enhanced quality of life and economic revitalization of communities in south carolina.

Arts & Culture
11
Good Friends of the Lowcountry

To provide emergency assistance to low income individuals and families in the lowcountry of south carolina.

Philanthropy
12
Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday Inc

To promote golf related tourism along the carolinas' coast from southport, north carolina to georgetown, south carolina better known as the "grand strand area".

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Inc and the most unlike its peers is South Carolina Junior Golf Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%4%<5yr16%7%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr14%29%20–35yr9%31%35–55yr14%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr14%38%20–35yr9%37%35–55yr14%14%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/145
the rest of the field
16%
1,101/6,920

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.

04the grantee network

116 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. 116 of the 148 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/116
Grantees still filing
79/116
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC — $1,468,337 · OtherTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINICBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC — $1,239,647 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INCSOUTH CAROLINA JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION — $494,690 · OtherSOUTH CAROLINA JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATIONHILTON HEAD ISLAND RECREATION — $345,929 · OtherHILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $529,280 · OtherHILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATIONHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC — $322,160 · OtherPOCKETS FULL OF SUNSHINE — $320,340 · Other+78 more — $4,328,843 · Other+78 moreHILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $1,529,915 · Arts & CultureHILTON HEAD SYMPHONY …ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA — $1,219,026 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER OF COASTA…COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $539,634 · Arts & CultureCOASTAL DISCOVERY MUS…HISTORIC MITCHELVILLE FREEDOM PARK INC — $386,743 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC MITCHELVILLE…+6 more — $176,591 · Arts & CultureMEMORY MATTERS — $1,334,372 · Human ServicesMEMORY MATTERSTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $348,944 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S …THE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $246,449 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S …FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY — $232,136 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE …SECOND HELPINGS — $195,058 · Human ServicesSECOND HELPINGSNeighborhood Outreach Connection — $139,286 · Human ServicesPROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE — $96,092 · Human Services+4 more — $109,690 · Human ServicesTECHNICAL COLLEGE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION INC — $307,219 · EducationHilton Head Island All Sports Booster Club — $202,073 · EducationHILTON HEAD PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $199,698 · EducationBLUFFTON HIGH SCHOOL ALL SPORTS BOOSTER CLUB — $143,000 · EducationZACK VAN LANDINGHAM SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $121,147 · EducationHILTON HEAD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $97,957 · EducationTHE HERITAGE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $53,709 · EducationDORCHESTER SCHOOL DISTRICT TWO GROWTH RE — $50,000 · Education+7 more — $93,626 · EducationFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $1,133,222 · Youth Development+4 more — $107,331 · Youth DevelopmentCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry — $753,700 · PhilanthropyCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $211,100 · PhilanthropyHILTON HEAD HEROES INC — $109,903 · PhilanthropyHilton Head Firefighters Association Inc — $54,697 · PhilanthropyThe Pan-African Family Empowerment and Land Preservation Network Inc — $41,685 · Philanthropy+7 more — $53,793 · PhilanthropyPEOPLE FOR PARKS INC — $547,427 · Recreation & SportsHILTON HEAD ISLAND FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORTS INC — $90,176 · Recreation & SportsPROJECT GOLF — $50,000 · Recreation & Sports+7 more — $64,250 · Recreation & Sports
Other$9,049,226Arts & Culture$3,851,909Human Services$2,702,027Education$1,268,429Youth Development$1,240,553Philanthropy$1,224,878Recreation & Sports$751,853

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $1,529,915 over 8y, 15% of budgetTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC — $1,468,337 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetMEMORY MATTERS — $1,334,372 over 8y, 18% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC — $1,239,647 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA — $1,219,026 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $1,133,222 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry — $753,700 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetPEOPLE FOR PARKS INC — $547,427 over 5y, 67% of budgetCOASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $539,634 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetHILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $529,280 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION — $494,690 over 8y, 15% of budgetHISTORIC MITCHELVILLE FREEDOM PARK INC — $386,743 over 8y, 17% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $348,944 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND RECREATION — $345,929 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC — $322,160 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetPOCKETS FULL OF SUNSHINE — $320,340 over 6y, 30% of budgetTECHNICAL COLLEGE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION INC — $307,219 over 7y, 39% of budgetSEA PINES MONTESSORI ACADEMY — $281,395 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetLEAN ENSEMBLE THEATER — $261,576 over 6y, 18% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $246,449 over 8y, 32% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY — $232,136 over 8y, 11% of budgetCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $211,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIVE ISLAND BUSINESS & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS ASSOCIATION INC — $204,562 over 7y, 14% of budgetHilton Head Island All Sports Booster Club — $202,073 over 5y, 15% of budgetPALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE — $201,358 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetHILTON HEAD PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $199,698 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS — $195,058 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetOSPREY VILLAGE INC — $183,096 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND — $180,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetPREGNANCY CENTER AND CLINIC OF THE LOW COUNTRY INC — $162,822 over 6y, 16% of budgetBLUFFTON HIGH SCHOOL ALL SPORTS BOOSTER CLUB — $143,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetNeighborhood Outreach Connection — $139,286 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetMIRASOL HEALTH INC — $123,080 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetZACK VAN LANDINGHAM SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $121,147 over 5y, 46% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL HILTON HEAD — $117,802 over 5y, 11% of budgetBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC — $113,326 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY — $110,759 over 6y, 16% of budgetHILTON HEAD HEROES INC — $109,903 over 6y, 18% of budgetHOPEFUL HORIZONS — $102,673 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSCSDB FOUNDATION — $100,892 over 2y, 15% of budgetHILTON HEAD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $97,957 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE — $96,092 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORTS INC — $90,176 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetHilton Head Island Noon Lions Club — $89,080 over 5y, 42% of budgetHILTON HEAD REGIONAL HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $82,877 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetHilton Head Dance Theatre — $79,489 over 5y, 11% of budgetHILTON HEAD CHORAL SOCIETY INC — $69,792 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetNAMI LOWCOUNTRY — $67,807 over 4y, 13% 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 HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds MEMORY MATTERS ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE FOR PARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds HILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC MITCHELVILLE FREEDOM PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND RECREATION ↗
  • Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds POCKETS FULL OF SUNSHINE ↗
  • Who funds TECHNICAL COLLEGE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SEA PINES MONTESSORI ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds LEAN ENSEMBLE THEATER ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE ISLAND BUSINESS & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Hilton Head Island All Sports Booster Club ↗
  • Who funds PALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds HILTON HEAD PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HELPINGS ↗
  • Who funds OSPREY VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND ↗
  • Who funds PREGNANCY CENTER AND CLINIC OF THE LOW COUNTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUFFTON HIGH SCHOOL ALL SPORTS BOOSTER CLUB ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood Outreach Connection ↗
  • Who funds MIRASOL HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds ZACK VAN LANDINGHAM SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL HILTON HEAD ↗
  • Who funds BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Coastal Community Fou…The Bargain BoxWexford FoundationPalmetto Electric Tru…The Church Mouse Thri…The Berkeley Hall Cha…Hilton Head Firefight…The Watterson Family …United Way of the Low…Rotary Club of Hilton…The Hack Foundation I…
Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC124× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Bargain Box · Wexford Foundation · Palmetto Electric Trust · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation · Hilton Head Firefighters Association Inc · The Watterson Family Foundation · United Way of the Lowcountry · Rotary Club of Hilton Head Island-Sunset · The Hack Foundation Inc

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 Heritage Classic 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Heritage Classic Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Heritage Classic Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 148 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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