· Private foundation
Hetland Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYO CLINIC FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMYROCHESTER BRANCH | $15,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $10,000 |
| BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES | $10,000 |
| INDEPENDENCE FUND INC | $10,000 |
| FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| INJURED MARINE SEMPER FI FUND | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT | $8,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING ANGLICAN CHURCH | $6,000 |
| SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH OF HOUSTON | $6,000 |
| BETHANY EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH | $6,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +56% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +32%
- SFSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +56%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $15k
- BEBETHANY EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $4k
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.
K9 hurricane's heroes, a federally recognized, non-profit organization, provides "retired law enforcement and military dogs" with subsidized veterinary care so they can live a long and healthy life. often these incredible dogs are the…
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.
The mission of the corporation is to provide support for the war dogs of the united states military. the organization provides care packages to war dogs and their handlers serving overseas. the organization also provides support for…
Providing highly trained service dogs for wounded united states military veterans in need of assistance
Healing paws for warriors is a local veteran found / veteran led 501(c)(3) that provides rescue to trained service dogs to veterans faced with post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), traumatic brain injury (tbi) and/or military sexual…
To send care and comfort packages to deployed american military heroes who are stationed in active duty theaters around the world, as well as to facilitate activities that elevate morale of all veterans
The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.
Research and advocacy for veterans with post-traumatic stress and the prevention of veteran suicide.
First responders foundation's mission is to serve and honor all our first responders and their families, build appreciation and respect for their work, and enhance public safety.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lacrescent Animal Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 42 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 FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LACRESCENT ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds MINNEHAHA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Spikes K9 Fund ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA DESERT ROTTI & PALS RESCUE 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Hetland Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.