· Private foundation
Paul F and Lois K Heiss Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| visionSynergy | $40,000 |
| Cru | $20,000 |
| Ambassadors For Christ | $10,000 |
| Hope International | $10,000 |
| Bridges International | $3,000 |
| IndoPartners Agency | $2,000 |
| Next Door Foundation | $2,000 |
| The Jesus Film Project | $2,000 |
| Adult and Teen Challenge | $1,000 |
| English Language Institute China | $1,000 |
| Salvation Army | $1,000 |
| Asia Harvest | $1,000 |
| American Bible Society | $1,000 |
| One for Israel | $1,000 |
| Ignition633 Ministries | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Paul F and Lois K Heiss Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
HOPE INTERNATIONAL4× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +56%- AFAMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC3× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +14%
- IAINDOPARTNERS AGENCY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- SNSAT-7 NORTH AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +12%
OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-USone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -34%- FSFAMILIES SET FREE INCone grant, 2023 · $20k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
ChinsSource is a trusted partner and platform for educating the global church on critical issues facing the church and ministries in China and for connecting Christians inside and outside China to advance the kingdom of God globally
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
To join in the completion of the Great Commission through Scripture Engagement in all languages and every people group.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds VISIONSYNERGY ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES SET FREE INC ↗
- Who funds EQUIP INDIA INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EASTBROOK ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds INDOPARTNERS AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA ↗
- Who funds ASIA HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds One For Israel ↗
- Who funds WATERORG ↗
- Who funds OZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Paul F and Lois K Heiss Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul F and Lois K Heiss Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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