· Private foundation
The Fb Heron Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k56 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $735k
- $250k+2 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises Inc | $10,000,000 |
| Communities Unlimited Inc | $3,750,000 |
| Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises Inc | $200,000 |
| Communities Unlimited Inc | $200,000 |
| Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises Inc | $200,000 |
| The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | $75,000 |
| Mission Investors Exchange | $60,000 |
| The Nonprofit Information Networking Association dba The Nonprofit Quarterl | $25,000 |
| Appalachian African-American Cultural Center | $20,000 |
| Schumacher Center for a New Economics | $20,000 |
| Appalachian African-American Cultural Center | $20,000 |
| The Haitian Project Inc | $15,000 |
| Maine Seacoast Mission | $10,000 |
| Federation of Southern Cooperatives Land Assistance Fund | $10,000 |
| Alabama State University Foundation Inc | $10,000 |
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, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of The Fb Heron Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
148 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 113 since wound down; 22 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
- FOFEDERATION OF APPALACHIAN HOUSING ENTERPRISES INC3× · 2022–2024 · $23M · revenue +116% · 67% of their budget
- CICAPITAL IMPACT PARTNERS3× · 2020–2022 · $7.0M · revenue +110%
- CUCOMMUNITIES UNLIMITED INC2× · 2022–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +75% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- MRMARY REYNOLDS BABCOCK FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -53%
- CRCOMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -12%
- RSRoyal Society of Arts (RSA) USone grant, 2020 · $175k
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.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
To generate economic opportunities for women and families in underserved communities throughout the developing world.
To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
To partner with individuals and organizations to access, organize, and share data that inspires action that restores our environment.
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Board of Management of Harrybrooke Park. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% 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.
319 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. 319 of the 358 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FEDERATION OF APPALACHIAN HOUSING ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL IMPACT PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Reclaim-Possibility Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds Self-Help Enterprises ↗
- Who funds COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY ↗
- Who funds CHIEF EXECUTIVES FOR CORPORATE PURPOSE INC ↗
- Who funds MARY REYNOLDS BABCOCK FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Central Valley Community Foundation A Corporation ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY ↗
- Who funds MAINE INITIATIVESINC ↗
- Who funds MISSION INVESTORS EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN THE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Genesis Fund ↗
- Who funds COMMON FUTURE ↗
- Who funds LOCUS IMPACT INVESTING ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds NEW SUN RISING ↗
- Who funds CALVERT IMPACT CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds METRO IAF INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FORWARD ↗
- Who funds Fresno Metropolitan Ministry ↗
- Who funds Jubilee Gift Galaxy Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD JOBS FIRST ↗
- Who funds THE LEAGUE OF INTRAPRENEURS ↗
- Who funds JACKSON MEDICAL MALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission ↗
- Who funds WHEDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Groundswell Fund ↗
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: Surdna Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · United Philanthropy Forum · The Winky Foundation Co Wilmington Trust Co · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Opportunity Finance Network · WK Kellogg 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 The Fb Heron 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.
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc — 17% of income from government
- Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
- Lever Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Housing Partnership Network Inc — 10% of income from government
- Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Children's Center of New Milford Inc — 7% of income from government
- Vital Communities Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
- Rising Tide Capital Inc and Subsidiaries — 2% of income from government
- Village Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Kipp Team and Family Schools Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pratt Nature Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Seeding Justice — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors 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.
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