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The Fb Heron Foundation at a glance

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The Fb Heron Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15M
Granted FY2024still arriving
77
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$40MHousing & Shelter$31MPhilanthropy$3.8MCivil Rights$1.2MEducation$1.1MEnvironment$748kSocial Science$725kCrime & Legal$640kOther$0
02FY2024 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k56 grants · $112k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $735k
  • $250k+2 grants · $14M
$2,500
Median grant
23
States reached
$349M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises Inc$10,000,000
Communities Unlimited Inc$3,750,000
Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises Inc$200,000
Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises Inc$200,000
Communities Unlimited 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
Schumacher Center for a New Economics$20,000
Appalachian African-American Cultural Center$20,000
Appalachian African-American Cultural Center$20,000
The Haitian Project Inc$15,000
Black Belt Community Foundation Inc$10,000
Tuskegee University$10,000
Federation of Southern Cooperatives Land Assistance Fund$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery: $500 → 11%New Sun Rising: $120k → 11%Fresno Metropolitan Ministry: $70k → 19%Frost Valley YMCA: $2k → 16%The Campaign Against Hunger Inc: $800 → 20%Little Birthday Angels Inc: $1k → 12%Boys & Girls Village: $500 → 12%Hope Autism Foundation: $5k → 5%Keys 2 Success Inc: $500 → 10%New Sun Rising: $100k → 11%Fresno Metropolitan Ministry: $70k → 19%Frost Valley YMCA: $2k → 16%Hope Autism Foundation: $2k → 5%St Josephs Social Service Center: $5k → 10%Meeting Essential Needs With Dignity Inc: $2k → 16%New Sun Rising: $42k → 11%Fresno Metropolitan Ministry: $65k → 19%Southern Partners Fund Inc: $75k → 13%Springboard To Opportunities: $150k → 23%St Josephs Social Service Center: $5k → 10%New Sun Rising: $20k → 11%Southern Partners Fund Inc: $75k → 13%Springboard To Opportunities: $100k → 23%St Josephs Social Service Center: $5k → 10%Meeting Essential Needs With Dignity Inc: $2k → 16%Mixteca Organization Inc: $2k → 20%Springboard To Opportunities: $45k → 23%Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission: $100k → 19%Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission: $100k → 19%Working Solutions CDFI: $522 → 10%Red Hook Initiative Inc: $5k → 20%Red Hook Initiative Inc: $4k → 20%Red Hook Initiative Inc: $3k → 20%Red Hook Playgroup: $2k → 20%Preble Street: $10k → 7%Red Hook Playgroup: $2k → 20%Preble Street: $9k → 7%Red Hook Playgroup: $2k → 20%Preble Street: $9k → 7%Red Hook Playgroup: $1k → 20%Connecticut Voices for Children Inc: $1k → 12%Connecticut Voices for Children Inc: $1k → 12%Preble Street: $2k → 7%Connecticut Voices for Children Inc: $1k → 12%Preble Street: $2k → 7%Preble Street: $2k → 7%United Community Centers Inc: $800 → 20%United Community Centers Inc: $522 → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 17% of The Fb Heron Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Fb Heron Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$51M · 148 repeat orgs$5.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

148
164

Total granted

$51M
$5.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+17%

Still filing today

89%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FO
    FEDERATION OF APPALACHIAN HOUSING ENTERPRISES INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $23M · revenue +116% · 67% of their budget
  • CI
    CAPITAL IMPACT PARTNERS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $7.0M · revenue +110%
  • CU
    COMMUNITIES UNLIMITED INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +75% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • MR
    MARY REYNOLDS BABCOCK FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -53%
  • CR
    COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -12%
  • RS
    Royal Society of Arts (RSA) US
    one grant, 2020 · $175k
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.

04Its field

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.

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Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
3
Common Impact Inc

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…

Unclassified
4
The Common Application Inc

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…

Education
5
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

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…

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Mce Social Capital

To generate economic opportunities for women and families in underserved communities throughout the developing world.

Community Improvement
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Climate Leadership Council Inc

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.

Environment
8
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
9
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
10
Common Good Iowa

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.

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11
The Commons Inc

To partner with individuals and organizations to access, organize, and share data that inspires action that restores our environment.

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12
Environment Next Inc

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

319 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
70
Early backer (in before they grew)
314/319
Grantees still filing
200/319
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $22,176,136 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO…+25 more: $2,835,025 · Philanthropy+25 moreFEDERATION OF APPALACHIAN HOUSING ENTERPRISES INC: $22,981,292 · Housing & ShelterFEDERATION OF APPALACHIAN HOUSING …+8 more: $1,790,000 · Housing & Shelter+8 moreCAPITAL IMPACT PARTNERS: $7,000,000 · Public BenefitCAPITAL IM…+3 more: $375,000 · Public BenefitCOMMUNITIES UNLIMITED INC: $4,100,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITIE…COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC: $500,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY …HOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION: $365,000 · Community ImprovementFAITH IN THE VALLEY: $360,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON FUTURE: $300,000 · Community ImprovementCALVERT IMPACT CAPITAL INC: $250,000 · Community Improvement+20 more: $1,483,550 · Community Improvement+20 moreReclaim-Possibility Inc: $6,115,150 · Crime & LegalReclaim-P…MAINE INITIATIVESINC: $432,500 · Crime & LegalMAINE INI…+1 more: $50,000 · Crime & LegalMARY REYNOLDS BABCOCK FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $500,000 · OtherMARY REYNOL…LOCUS IMPACT INVESTING: $300,000 · OtherLINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY: $525,000 · OtherLINCOLN INS…THE URBAN INSTITUTE: $351,000 · OtherLEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY: $465,000 · OtherLEADERSHIP …FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA: $465,000 · OtherFOUNDATION …The Genesis Fund: $300,000 · Other+109 more: $5,576,499 · Other+109 moreSPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $295,000 · Human ServicesNEW SUN RISING: $282,000 · Human ServicesFresno Metropolitan Ministry: $205,000 · Human ServicesFresno County Economic Opportunities Commission: $200,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE'S FUND: $65,000 · Human Services+9 more: $94,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$25,011,161Housing & Shelter$24,771,292Public Benefit$7,375,000Community Improvement$7,358,550Crime & Legal$6,597,650Other$8,482,499Human Services$1,441,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFEDERATION OF APPALACHIAN HOUSING ENTERPRISES INC: $22,981,292 over 3y, 67% of budgetTHE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $22,176,136 over 3y, 54% of budgetCAPITAL IMPACT PARTNERS: $7,000,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNLIMITED INC: $4,100,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetSelf-Help Enterprises: $750,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCOASTAL ENTERPRISES INC: $560,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetLINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY: $525,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHIEF EXECUTIVES FOR CORPORATE PURPOSE INC: $525,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetMARY REYNOLDS BABCOCK FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCentral Valley Community Foundation A Corporation: $472,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY: $465,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA: $465,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetMAINE INITIATIVESINC: $432,500 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetMISSION INVESTORS EXCHANGE INC: $400,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetHOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION: $365,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFAITH IN THE VALLEY: $360,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $351,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOCUS IMPACT INVESTING: $300,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMON FUTURE: $300,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetThe Genesis Fund: $300,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetSPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $295,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNEW SUN RISING: $282,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetCALVERT IMPACT CAPITAL INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $246,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $245,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMETRO IAF INC: $230,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FORWARD: $225,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetFresno Metropolitan Ministry: $205,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetTHE LEAGUE OF INTRAPRENEURS: $200,000 over 2y, 86% of budgetJubilee Gift Galaxy Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetFresno County Economic Opportunities Commission: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJACKSON MEDICAL MALL FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGOOD JOBS FIRST: $200,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetSOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND INC: $150,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHER AMBITION LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetHEADWATERS FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE: $150,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNext City Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND: $150,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetRural Community Assistance Corporation: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGroundswell Fund: $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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.

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.

Surdna Foundation IncAmalgamated Charitabl…The Nathan Cummings F…The Ford FoundationThe Kresge FoundationRsf Social Finance IncUnited Philanthropy F…The Winky Foundation …The Robert Wood Johns…ImpactassetsincOpportunity Finance N…WK Kellogg Foundation
Surdna Foundation IncNY46.7× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Fb Heron Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fb Heron Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 290%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
29get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Fb Heron Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Fb Heron 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.

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 358 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.

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