· Private foundation
The Heritage Foundation of First Security Federal Savings Bank 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF FIRST SECURITY FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 51 grants below total $603,115 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $703,615 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $100,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $125k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $426k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Ukrainian Youth Assoc.- Pavlushkov Branch | $52,175 |
| Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art | $41,217 |
| St. Nicholas Cathedral School | $41,000 |
| Womens Association for the Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine (Alla Horska Branch) | $40,250 |
| Ukrainian Youth Association "Plast" (Chicago Branch) | $37,750 |
| Ukrainian National Museum | $35,875 |
| Kyiv Mohyla Academy Foundation | $30,000 |
| Sts Volodymyr & Olha Parish | $27,500 |
| Ukrainian American Freedom Foundation | $26,000 |
| Ukrainian Catholic University (formerly Education) Foundation | $25,000 |
| Center for US Ukrainian Relations | $25,000 |
| Ukrainian Congress Committee of America - Illinois Division | $20,073 |
| Hromovytsia Ukrainian Dance Ensemble (Chicago) | $18,000 |
| Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Byzantine Cath.Church (Palatine) | $17,750 |
| St. Joseph the Betrothed Parish | $15,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 48 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, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $543k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UIUKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART4× · 2020–2023 · $222k · revenue +49%
- AUAMERICAN UKRAINIAN YOUTH ASSOCIATION4× · 2020–2023 · $162k · revenue +316% · 38% of their budget
- UFUKRAINIAN FREE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +283%
Funded once
- SNST NICHOLAS UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC EPARone grant, 2020 · $62k
- UAUKRAINIAN AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $47k · revenue +396% · 66% of their budget
- AUAMERICAN UKRAINIAN YOUTH ASSN VITOVone grant, 2020 · $27k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Providing services to Ukrainian Citizens
Research, advancement and promotion of Ukrainian studies and culture in the United States.
Promoting recognition of service to the United States Armed forces by Americans of Ukrainian descent, providing scholarships to children of veterans and material support for ill veterans.
To support services and programs which contribute to the preservation, enrichment and promotion of ukrainian identity, language and culture.
The ukrainian museum and library is dedicated to the collection, documentation, preservation and exhibition of artifacts, archives, and publications dealing with ukrainian culture and heritage.
To unite and organize women interested in ukraine and those of ukrainian descent for the purpose of fostering ukrainian cultural heritage, promoting knowledge of ukrainian culture; promoting ties to other ukrainian, american and…
American Ukranian Relief Organization (the Organization) intends to help Ukranians suffering from the war with Russian federation. As a volunteer based organization comprised mostly of Ukranians, the Organization would like to help bring…
We actively and zealously work to develop awareness, knowledge and understanding about Ukraine in Colorado and beyond. We work hard to raise funds to provide medical and humanitarian aid to Ukrainians through a network of established…
Aid for ukraine
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ukrainian American Freedom Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Manor College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 138 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UKRAINIAN YOUTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UMANA Foundation ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN FREE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN GENOCIDE FAMINE FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation ↗
- Who funds KYIV MOHYLA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MANOR COLLEGE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Selfreliance Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Ukrainian American Community (Uac) Foundation Inc · The Maria Hulai Lion Foundation Inc · UMANA Foundation · Ukrainian Community Foundation of Philadelphia · The Polsky Foundation · New York Self Reliance Foundation Ltd · Chopivsky Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Heritage Foundation of First Security Federal Savings Bank Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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