· Private foundation
Hein Legacy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KITTITAS COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $15,000 |
| HOPESOURCE | $12,000 |
| KALEIDOSCOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $12,000 |
| CLE ELUM ROSLYN SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,700 |
| MOUNTAINS TO SOUND GREENWAY TRUST | $10,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $10,000 |
| KITTITAS COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE | $7,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF UPPER KITTITAS COUNTY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| COURT ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF KITTITAS COUNTY | $5,000 |
| CLE ELUM YOUTH FOOTBALL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,095 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| UKC ROTARY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
68 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 14 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- HHOPESOURCE8× · 2018–2025 · $123k · revenue +181%
- CBCOMMUNITY BUILDERS DAWN BASS MEMBER7× · 2018–2024 · $120k · revenue +429%
- UKUPPER KITTITAS COUNTY COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER ALLIANCE2× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- COCITY OF CLE ELUMone grant, 2020 · $20k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF COLUMBIA BASINone grant, 2024 · $15k
- FOFRIENDS OF ROSLYN LIBRARYone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Protect and enhance fish and wildlife habitat, open space, cultural and recreational resources, and scenic views in the Upper Yakima River Basin.
To develop a recovery community with barrier free access to the recovery support, care, and resources needed to achieve long-term recovery, and the ability to become integral members of our community.
Rescue and adoption of animals, primarily dogs and cats, spay and neuter of rescues and microchip implants.
To receive, administer and expand funds to foster economic development and to assure a thriving economy in kittitas county and central washington.
Environmental
Youth soccer club
The Kittitas Co 4-H Endowment Fund was established to provide a reliable source of funds to support the County 4-H program in perpetuity. Funds received become part of the principal balance with only the earnings being used to help finance…
Primary purpose is to provide a source of funding for improvements to the Kittitas Co Fairgrounds, provide scholarships to area high school seniors and promote the Kittitas Co Fair.
Through a partnership of government and business, our mission is to attract and retain primary businesses to kitsap county and its communities, ensure healthy economic growth, and maintain a desirable quality of life.
To encourage and assist in the continued development of existing business, education, and life in ketchikan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopesource and the most unlike its peers is Ellensburg Christian School. 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 20 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 173 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 HOPESOURCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BUILDERS DAWN BASS MEMBER ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON OUTDOOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Hospice Friends ↗
- Who funds KITTITAS COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds KALEIDOSCOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER KITTITAS COUNTY COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Youth Services of Kittitas County Inc ↗
- Who funds Spirit Therapeutic Riding Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Kittitas County Search and Rescue ↗
- Who funds Upper Kittitas County Youth Baseball Association ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club of Upper Kittitas County Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLE ELUM DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UPPER KITTITAS COUNTY SENIOR CENTER UPPER KITTITAS COUNTY SENIOR CENTER ↗
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: Suncadia Fund for Community Enhancement · United Way of Central Washington · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Yakima Valley Community Foundation · Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Christopher D Wheeler Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · 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 Hein Legacy 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.
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Hein Legacy Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Hein Legacy Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.