· Private foundation
The Heestand Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| LaJolla Music Society | $9,000 |
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $8,500 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $7,500 |
| Art Institute of Chicago | $3,500 |
| BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN | $3,000 |
| FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,500 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| Chicago Opera Theatre | $2,500 |
| CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATRE | $2,500 |
| ANTI CRUELITY SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| California Community Foundation | $2,500 |
| CONTEXTOS | $2,500 |
| Combat Wounded Veterans Challenge | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSChicago Symphony Orchestra9× · 2017–2025 · $88k · revenue +58%
- YGYouth Guidance9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +121%
- WRWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +32%
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 36 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 Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Madonna Mission ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HIGH JUMP ↗
- Who funds CONTEXTOS NFP ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO OPERA THEATER ↗
- Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OPERATION WELCOME YOU HOME NFP ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Heestand Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Heestand Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Play a game based on Heestand’s filings →