· Private foundation
Heron Oaks 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| BRONZE CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| PEOPLE CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| NEW DANCE COMPLEX INC | $5,200 |
| BLACK GIRL HOCKEY CLUB (BGHC) | $5,200 |
| MINDS MATTER | $2,600 |
| AKASHINGA INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 -12% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $309k 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
KEEP GROWING DETROIT4× · 2021–2024 · $72k · revenue +20%- MMMINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +37%
LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- KOKREWE OF RED BEANSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +56%
- NINW IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS PROJECTone grant, 2021 · $6k
- TBTOP BOX FOODS LOUISIANAone grant, 2021 · $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.
Washingtonians for Public banking promotes education and civic engagement on public banking and banking reform within Washington state. The organization organizes, educates, and advocates for the establishment of public banking, and…
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…
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
Got Green is a Climate Justice organization that envisions a future of healthy and powerful communities, where working class Black and Brown people in southeast Seattle have meaningful work, live in healthy homes, eat nourishing food, and…
Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
To provide equitable access to outdoor experiences and gear, promoting well-being, sustainability and resilient communities.
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,…
Create a strong and effective statewide infrastructure that efficiently leverages resources to expand capacity in Washington State's Feeding America network.
Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.
DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.
Our mission is to continue to develop and operate a permanent year-round market in boston and to support the farmers, fishers, and entrepreneurs who grow, catch, and produce local food, and to nourish our community with food and…
Providing equitable access to nutritious food, with dignity, to those in the community facing food insecurity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Washington Health Outreach. 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 24 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 29 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 BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEEP GROWING DETROIT ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Planting Seeds International ↗
- Who funds Flint River Watershed Coalition ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE JUNIOR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN WASHINGTON FEMALE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds KREWE OF RED BEANS ↗
- Who funds THE NEW DANCE COMPLEX INC ↗
- Who funds ON THE RISE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HEALTH OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS ↗
- Who funds Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office ↗
- Who funds BUCKETS OF RAIN ↗
- Who funds Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds AKASHINGA INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HOMELESSNESS ↗
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: The Highfield Foundation Fifth Third Bank · Boston Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 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.
- On the Rise Inc — 39% of income from government
- The New Dance Complex Inc — 2% 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.