· Private foundation
The Gary & Diane Heavin Community Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $272k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $922k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LORD'S WORK INC | $350,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING CHURCH | $210,000 |
| LIFELINE CHRISTIAN MISSION | $140,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $106,526 |
| MISSION WACO | $95,000 |
| FRIENDS FOR LIFE | $60,000 |
| IGNITED CHURCH | $60,000 |
| LEGACY GLOBAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FAMILY RADIO | $50,000 |
| DISCIPLESHIP UNLIMITED | $50,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR LIFE CENTRAL TEXAS | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| EAGLE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $43,572 |
| RON PAUL INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| GATESVILLE CARE CENTER | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 12 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC8× · 2017–2024 · $813k · revenue +161%- FFFRIENDS FOR LIFE8× · 2017–2024 · $665k · revenue +105%
- BFBALLOON FEDERATION OF AMERICA8× · 2017–2024 · $164k · revenue +120% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $250k
- CMCORYELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $250k
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
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.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
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.
Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 131 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 Lifeline Christian Mission ↗
- Who funds MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds THE LORDS WORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER WELLNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BALLOON FEDERATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LEGACY GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DISCIPLESHIP UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds Gatesville Care Center ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Faith Community Health DBA Hope Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRO-LIFE WACO ↗
- Who funds FUZZY FRIENDS RESCUE ↗
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: Clifton Foundation · United Way of Waco-McLennan County · Baylor University · Waco Foundation · Painted River Foundation · Fm and Gloria Young Family Foundation · Margaret Cb & S Spencer N Brown Foundation Inc · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Shell USA Company Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gary & Diane Heavin Community Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gary & Diane Heavin Community Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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