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The Heidt Family Foundation at a glance

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The Heidt Family Foundation

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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$466k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$6.3MPhilanthropy$2.9MHealth$2.3MHuman Services$2.1MArts & Culture$1.3MYouth Development$1.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$890kHousing & Shelter$724kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $306k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $805k
  • $250k+2 grants · $781k
$10,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$759k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Naples Children & Education Foundation$465,512
XAVIER UNIVERSITY$315,100
LINDNER CENTER OF HOPE$200,000
BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF CINCINNATI$135,000
BETHANY HOUSE$110,000
LADD$110,000
Roger Bacon High School$100,000
Catholic Leadership Institute$100,000
SUSTAINABLE MEDICAL MISSIONS$50,000
Scripps Howard Foundation$32,500
Xavier Jesuit Academy$25,000
Everglades Foundation$25,000
NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN$23,650
St Vincent DePaul$21,010
BEECHWOOD HOME$20,856
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.

area typical 11%Joyful Heart Foundation: $3k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 16%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $3k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 16%THE CHILDRENS HOME OF CINCINNATI: $398k → 16%THE CHILDRENS HOME OF CINCINNATI: $359k → 16%THE CHILDRENS HOME OF CINCINNATI: $356k → 16%THE CHILDRENS HOME OF CINCINNATI: $350k → 16%CHILDRENS HOME OF CINCINNATI: $335k → 16%THE CHILDRENS HOME OF CINCINNATI: $47k → 16%CHILDRENS HOME OF CINCINNATI: $30k → 16%Best Point: $11k → 16%Pregnancy Center East: $500 → 16%Ken Anderson Alliance: $25k → 16%Ken Anderson Alliance: $15k → 16%LADD: $181k → 16%LADD: $180k → 16%LADD: $110k → 16%Ken Anderson Alliance: $8k → 16%LADD: $101k → 16%Ken Anderson Alliance: $6k → 16%LADD: $10k → 16%Ken Anderson Alliance: $5k → 16%LADD: $10k → 16%Ken Anderson Alliance: $1k → 16%STEPPING STONES: $8k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $5k → 16%STEPPING STONES: $5k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $5k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $5k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $1k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $1k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $1k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $1k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $500 → 16%STEPPING STONES: $15k → 16%STEPPING STONES: $9k → 16%STEPPING STONES: $7k → 16%STEPPING STONES: $1k → 16%Cancer Support Community: $1k → 16%Cancer Support Community: $1k → 16%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

NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 81 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

81 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
84

Total granted

$19M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+3%

Still filing today

58%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $266k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • XU
    XAVIER UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.1M · revenue +24%
  • NC
    NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +54%
  • TC
    The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
  • MH
    MUSIC HALL RENOVATION COMPANY
    one grant, 2017 · $400k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +3%
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.

1
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
2
Cicp Foundation Inc

Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…

Community Improvement
3
Cintrifuse

To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.

Community Improvement
4
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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5
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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6
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
7
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
8
Lafayette General Foundation Inc

The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…

Health
9
The Cleveland Foundation

Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.

Philanthropy
10
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Greater Cincinnati Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Turner Farm Preservation Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

104 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. 104 of the 176 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/104
Grantees still filing
68/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF CINCINNATI: $1,077,200 · OtherBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF CINCINNATILINDNER CENTER OF HOPE: $862,850 · OtherLINDNER CENTER OF HOPESOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $858,215 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAULBETHANY HOUSE: $808,008 · OtherBETHANY HOUSEST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL INC: $752,283 · OtherST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL INCDE PAUL CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL: $640,850 · OtherDE PAUL CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $500,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGOMUSIC HALL RENOVATION COMPANY: $400,000 · OtherSUSTAINABLE MEDICAL MISSIONS INC: $278,500 · Other+100 more: $2,125,886 · Other+100 moreXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $4,108,446 · EducationXAVIER UNIVERSITY+10 more: $185,792 · EducationNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $3,241,010 · PhilanthropyNAPLES CHILDREN FOU…THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF C…+10 more: $201,050 · Philanthropy+10 moreThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $1,885,175 · Human ServicesThe Children's…Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc: $592,000 · Human ServicesLiving Arrange…+8 more: $162,091 · Human Services+8 moreCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $516,520 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $130,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $92,000 · Arts & CultureGOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureNAPLES ART ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $32,425 · Arts & CultureBEECHWOOD HOME: $198,466 · HealthCINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 · HealthThe Christ Hospital Foundation: $75,000 · HealthMercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc: $69,000 · HealthPILOT LIGHT: $67,121 · HealthThe Christ Hospital: $60,000 · HealthNATIONAL STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $34,000 · HealthBOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Health+7 more: $42,500 · HealthGREEN UMBRELLA: $249,999 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $227,000 · EnvironmentNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $102,390 · Environment+2 more: $23,550 · Environment
Other$8,303,792Education$4,294,238Philanthropy$3,692,060Human Services$2,639,266Arts & Culture$860,945Health$681,087Environment$602,939

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $4,108,446 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $3,241,010 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $1,885,175 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetLiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc: $592,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $516,520 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MEDICAL MISSIONS INC: $278,500 over 9y, 8.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREEN UMBRELLA: $249,999 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $227,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBEECHWOOD HOME: $198,466 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $130,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $102,390 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSETON EDUCATION PARTNERS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $92,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD: $88,139 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetAnthony Munoz Foundation: $85,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI: $83,180 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Christ Hospital Foundation: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc: $69,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetPILOT LIGHT: $67,121 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $60,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE: $60,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetThe Christ Hospital: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Scripps Howard Foundation: $57,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTristate Veterans Community Alliance: $50,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetSTEPPING STONES INC: $44,025 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCincinnati Parks Foundation: $40,620 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $34,000 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetBOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNAPLES ART ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $29,760 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MY HERO PROJECT INC: $27,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProKids: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $21,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals Tristate: $21,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBack 2 Back Ministries Inc: $21,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKENZIE'S CLOSET: $19,473 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetST FRANCIS SERAPH MINISTRIES: $17,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc: $16,667 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $16,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIRE HEROES USA INC: $16,667 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $14,720 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
  • Who funds Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE MEDICAL MISSIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREEN UMBRELLA ↗
  • Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BEECHWOOD HOME ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD ↗
  • Who funds Anthony Munoz Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The Christ Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds PILOT LIGHT ↗
  • Who funds Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds KEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES 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.

The Greater Cincinnat…Johnson Charitable Gi…Hcs FoundationCarol Ann and Ralph V…Robert H & Susan F Ca…Sutphin Family Founda…Marge & Charles J Sch…Williams FoundationCharles H Dater Found…John a Schroth Family…The James J and Joan …Louise Taft Semple Fo…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH49.4× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Hcs Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Williams Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation · Louise Taft Semple 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 Heidt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Heidt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • The Sundari Foundation Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Friends of Rookery Bay Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Heidt Family 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 176 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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