How much did HERON OAKS FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Philanthropy$276kRecreation & Sports$104kCommunity Improvement$72kEnvironment$26kYouth Development$23kHuman Services$17kAnimals$14kArts & Culture$6kInternational$3kOther$167k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k6 grants · $18k
$10k–50k6 grants · $116k
$50k–250k5 grants · $473k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$22k

Total assets

Largest grants

MASSACHUSETTS ENGLISH LEARNER COMMUNITY$118,848
BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$116,248
SEATTLE FOUNDATION$116,248
OTTAWA COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC$66,248
KEEP GROWING DETROIT$55,200
PLANTING SEEDS INTERNATIONAL$40,000
FLINT RIVER WATERSHED COALITION$26,248
SEATTLE JUNIOR HOCKEY ASSN$20,000
WEST WASHINGTON FEMALE HOCKEY ASSN$10,000
PEOPLE CENTER INC$10,000
BRONZE CHAPTER$10,000
BLACK GIRL HOCKEY CLUB (BGHC)$5,200
NEW DANCE COMPLEX INC$5,200
MINDS MATTER$2,600
AKASHINGA INC$2,000

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$128k · 6 repeat orgs$581k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +175% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$128k

$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+175%

+22%

Still filing today

83%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $539k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

KEEP GROWING DETROIT
4× · 2021–2024 · $72k · revenue +261%
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MINDS MATTER
4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +175%
LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +64%

Funded once

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KREWE OF RED BEANS
one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -45%
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NW IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS PROJECT
one grant, 2021 · $6k
TB
TOP BOX FOODS LOUISIANA
one grant, 2021 · $6k

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.

Ketcha Outdoors

To provide equitable access to outdoor experiences and gear, promoting well-being, sustainability and resilient communities.

Youth Development

350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment

Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports

We Heart Seattle

We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…

Community Improvement

The Wetlands Conservancy Inc

To partner with communities across oregon in conserving, enhancing, and restoring the physical and ecological values of oregon's greatest wetlands for current and future generations.

Environment

Walkboston Inc

Walkboston makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.

Unclassified

Washington Wild

Protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Animals

One Earth Collective

The working mission of One Earth Collective is to harness the power of people through vibrant environmental programming that inspires action, facilitates learning, promotes justice, and fosters equity and inclusion to create resilient…

Environment

Whatcom Land Trust

Protecting the rich and vibrant lands for a healthy, thriving Whatcom County for generations to come.

Environment

Got Green

Got green organizes for environmental, racial, and economic justice as a south seattle-based grassroots organization, working to ensure that the benefits of the green movement and green economy reach low income communities and communities…

Environment

Boston Food Forest Coalition

At the intersection of racial equity and climate resilience, the boston food forest coalition, a nonprofit community land trust, is a community of neighbors transforming vacant lots into public edible parks placed into permanent community…

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Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is On the Rise Inc and the most unlike its peers is Krewe of Red Beans. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/21

Grantees still filing

15/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$275,696Other$190,648Recreation & Sports$104,348Community Improvement$72,400Environment$26,248Youth Development$23,200Human Services$16,700

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.

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 Highfield Foundation Fifth Third BankOH20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Highfield Foundation Fifth Third Bank · Boston Foundation Inc · Seattle Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 organisation HERON OAKS 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PLANTING SEEDS INTERNATIONAL.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 820627430 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PLANTING SEEDS INTERNATIONAL, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Heron Oaks Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Heron Oaks Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

HERON OAKS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Heron Oaks Foundation?

More from the funding graph

HERON OAKS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Heron Oaks Foundation?

More from the funding graph