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Paul F and Lois K Heiss Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$97k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
65%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 23
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$149k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 65% of the organizations Paul F and Lois K Heiss Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 93% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$97k18%
FY202323$261k65%
FY202014$83kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$292kInternational$107kEducation$21kEnvironment$10kYouth Development$6kHousing & Shelter$3kHuman Services$1kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
MI
IA
PA
CA
CO
MO
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of Paul F and Lois K Heiss Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sat-7 North America$100,00011%
Visionsynergy$90,00033%
Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us$50,0001n/a
Hope International$30,00040%
Ambassadors for Christ Inc$20,0003n/a
Families Set Free Inc$20,00012%
Equip India Inc$10,00018%
Next Door Foundation Inc$6,00040%
Eastbrook Academy Inc$5,00010%
Indopartners Agency Inc$3,00030%
Third Millennium Ministries Inc$3,00010%
English Language Institute in China$3,00040%
Asia Harvest Inc$3,00040%
American Bible Society$3,00040%
One For Israel$2,00030%
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$2,0001n/a
Pioneers$1,2002n/a
Waterorg$1,00010%
Come and See Foundation Inc$5002n/a
Ozaukee Christian School Inc$50010%
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty$20010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($87k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paul F and Lois K Heiss Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSat-7 North America: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVisionsynergy: $90,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetHope International: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFamilies Set Free Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEquip India Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetNext Door Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEastbrook Academy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndopartners Agency Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThird Millennium Ministries Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnglish Language Institute in China: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAsia Harvest Inc: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Bible Society: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOne For Israel: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWaterorg: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOzaukee Christian School Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

International Generosity Foundation TrustFL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: International Generosity Foundation Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Paul F and Lois K Heiss Family Foundation Inc

How much does Paul F and Lois K Heiss Family Foundation Inc give?
Paul F and Lois K Heiss Family Foundation Inc reported 17 grants totaling $97,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Paul F and Lois K Heiss Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (66%), International (24%), Education (5%).
Who are Paul F and Lois K Heiss Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Sat-7 North America ($100k), Visionsynergy ($90k), Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us ($50k).
Does Paul F and Lois K Heiss Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Paul F and Lois K Heiss Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Paul F and Lois K Heiss Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include International Generosity Foundation Trust, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Servant Foundation.
Where is Paul F and Lois K Heiss Family Foundation Inc based?
Paul F and Lois K Heiss Family Foundation Inc is based in WI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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