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· Private foundation
THE JAMES & CATHERINE HEITEL FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$5k
Granted FY2025
8
Grants
4
Communities
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
0177% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Philanthropy$14kReligion$4kEducation$2kEnvironment$1kAnimals$950Health$300International$35Public Benefit$33Other$7k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
flathead
2020
flatheadanimal
2021
animalfoothills
2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$71k
Total assets
Largest grants
- WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,600
- LOGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,600
- MENTORKIDS USA$1,000
- LEWIS & CLARK HUMANE SOCIETY$500
- KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS$350
- FLATHEAD SHELTER FRIENDS$200
- HILLSDALE COLLEGE$100
- INDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE$52
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 78% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$22k · 13 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else
13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
13
20
Total granted
$22k
$4k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+54%
+125%
Still filing today
69%
25%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
PhilanthropyReligionEnvironmentAnimalsEducationHealthOther
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
- WCWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +73%
- SLSEELEY LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $5k · revenue +23%
- MUMENTORKIDS USA3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- LHLOGAN HEALTH FOUNDTIONone grant, 2024 · $1k
- WCWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $800
- SHSKI HERITAGE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $500
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Flathead Land Trust
Flathead land trust is dedicated to the conservation of northwest montana's land and water through voluntary agreements with private landowners.
Environment
2
Montana Wildlife Federation
Mwf advocated to protect montana's fish and wildlife, wildlife habitat and public access for outdoor recreation.
Animals
3
The Montana Land Reliance
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
Environment
4
Flathead Community Foundation Inc
Mission: to enrich the lives of present and future generations by supporting philanthropy in the communities we serve by gathering donors' gifts in permanent endowments or pass-through funds; growing individual funds through wise…
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5
Lake Humane Society
Mission: to protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education. vision: leading and guiding a humane lake county core values: compassion for pets and people. engagement through innovative programs,…
Animals
6
Mountain Area Land Trust
Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.
Environment
7
Kitsap Humane Society
Providing positive life changing solutions to people and animals in need.
Animals
8
Flathead Warming Center Inc
Our mission is to save lives, link resources, and encourage dignity through low-barrier access to a warm safe place for those in need.
Housing & Shelter
9
Fallbrook Land Conservancy
To acquire, protect, and manage open space in perpetuity for the benefit of wildlife and the community.
Environment
10
Humane Society of Fremontcounty Inc
Operate as an open-admission animal shelter dedicated to helping every animal in need. provide animals in need with a safe and loving home until they find their forever home.
Animals
11
Foothills Land Conservancy
Foothills land conservancy is dedicated to protecting, preserving, and enhancing the lands and environments of the southern appalachian region and promoting the character of the land for the benefit of the general public.
Environment
12
The Wildlife Society
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
Animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whitefish Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Philanthropy$13,920Other$6,648Religion$4,050Education$2,124Environment$1,050Animals$950Health$300
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 WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEELEY LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTORKIDS USA ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LOGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds DESERT FOOTHILLS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD SHELTER FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD VALLEY SKI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH LEGACY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA ↗
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.
Whitefish Community Foundation IncMT18× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · Whitefish Credit Union Association · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation THE JAMES & CATHERINE HEITEL FOUNDATION 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SEELEY LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~10 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 311711576 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SEELEY LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to The James & Catherine Heitel Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines