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The Kris and Kathy Heinzelman Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Kris and Kathy Heinzelman 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.

$132k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$814kEducation$105kInternational$22kCivil Rights$5kHealth$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$350Youth Development$250Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $500
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $46k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER$85,000
SEWARD HOUSE MUSEUM$16,000
THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES$10,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$10,000
YALE LAW SCHOOL$10,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PARENTS LEAUGUE OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%PARENTS LEAUGUE OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%THE PARENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK: $500 → 17%PARENTS LEAUGUE OF NEW YORK: $500 → 17%PARENTS LEAUGUE OF NEW YORK: $250 → 17%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$931k · 12 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
9

Total granted

$931k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+37%

Still filing today

83%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CC
    CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $4k · revenue +54%
  • PL
    PARENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $3k · revenue +11%
  • RC
    RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    5× · 2019–2024 · $3k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • TR
    THE RECORDER NEWS
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • TB
    THE BREARLEY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +37%
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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
4
Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
5
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
6
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

—
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
12
New York University School of Law Foundation

The foundation, a subsidiary of new york university, fosters legal education and research at new york university's school of law by awarding scholarships, making grants for educational purposes related to law, and supporting programs of…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rye Country Day School; the most unlike its peers is Volunteer Referral Center 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

17 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. 17 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $785,684 · Arts & CultureFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC+1 more: $26,000 · Arts & CultureYALE LAW SCHOOL: $80,000 · OtherYALE LAW SCH…YALE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERS…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC: $3,600 · Other+5 more: $5,600 · Other+5 moreTHE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES - US: $20,000 · InternationalTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $2,500 · EducationTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $1,000 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationTHE WRITING REVOLUTION INC: $500 · EducationPARENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK INC: $3,250 · Human ServicesTHE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $750 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $500 · HealthSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 · Crime & LegalEARLY STEPS INC: $500 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$811,684Other$104,200International$20,000Education$11,000Human Services$3,250Health$1,750Crime & Legal$1,000Philanthropy$500

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 budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $785,684 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetSeward House Museum: $26,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES - US: $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC: $3,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK INC: $3,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPATH TO PEACE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WRITING REVOLUTION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER REFERRAL CENTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

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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 Kris and Kathy Heinzelman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kris and Kathy Heinzelman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 23 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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