· Private foundation
The Heiser 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $358k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| GRATITUDE AMERICA | $150,000 |
| BAK K-9 TRAINING | $57,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| FLAGLER COUNTY EDUCATION FUND | $10,100 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $8,000 |
| SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ARTS | $7,000 |
| FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $7,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $6,000 |
| COLUMBIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA | $5,000 |
| TEXAS A&M | $5,000 |
| THOMAS UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| BRAVE AID | $5,000 |
| WINTERGREEN ADAPTIVE SPORTS | $1,500 |
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 (FY23–24, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +12% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 7 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SDSERVICE DOGS OF VIRGINIA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $210k · revenue +159%
- TITeens-In-Flight Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $192k · revenue +286% · 58% of their budget
- FIFLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- ALAMERICAN LEGIONone grant, 2023 · $8k
- PCPALM COAST ARTS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -99%
- LULIBERTY UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +8%
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.
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How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 24 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 GRATITUDEAMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds Teens-In-Flight Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PALM COAST ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WINTERGREEN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Heiser Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Heiser Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Florida Institute of Technology Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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