· Private foundation
The Margaret Heins Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST STEPHENS WAY | $5,000 |
| PROMISE INC | $5,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF BREVARD INC | $4,500 |
| BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC | $4,000 |
| CLUB ESTEEM | $3,000 |
| SOUTH BREVARD WOMENS CTR INC | $3,000 |
| GRAND PARENTS RAISING GRANDCHILDREN | $3,000 |
| CROSSWINDS YOUTH SVC INC | $3,000 |
| NEIGHBOR UP BREVARD | $3,000 |
| WILD FLORIDA RESCUE CORP | $3,000 |
| LADY COMETS INC | $2,500 |
| MELBOURNE MUNICIPAL BAND ASSOCIATIO | $2,409 |
| LINKS OF HOPE INC | $2,000 |
| CANDLELIGHTERS OF BREVARD | $2,000 |
| RESTOR COUNSEL SPACE COAST | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
52 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- ECEAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +151%
- W4Wheelchairs 4 Kids Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +469%
- SSSAINT STEPHENS WAY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- COCOMMUNITY OF HOPEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +125%
- FWFLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL & SANCTUARY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +66%
- WFWILDLIFE FLORIDA RESCURE CORPone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Space coast habitat for humanity believes that everyone deserves a decent place to live. we bring people together to build homes, communities and hope.
To provide homes for disadvantaged children.
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
To be the leader in providing safety, stability, and quality of life for all children by working with the community to strengthen the family unit.
The corporation is organized for the purpose of permanently reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in the central florida region.
The mission of the brevard homeless coalition is to provide a framework of services to prevent and eliminate homelessness in brevard county.
To end the cycle of domestic violence in Brevard County through education, empowerment, intervention, prevention, social change, advocacy, and engagement of our community.
Providing hope for the homeless and hurting through housing, case management, support services and strategic alliances.
Provides persons with disabilities innovative services and opportunities to achieve personal success
To deliver a well coordinated and multi-disciplined response to child abuse in an environment that puts children first
Bays provides counseling & guidance to the youth of florida and provides services necessary to aid troubled youth & their families. bays partners with individuals, families, and communities to inspire change, growth, & success.
Providing home, hope and healing to abused and neglected children and teens in southwest florida.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Brevard Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grandparents Raising Grandchildren of Brevard County Inc. 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 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 85 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 EAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREVARD NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Wheelchairs 4 Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT STEPHENS WAY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF BREVARD INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSWINDS YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BREVARD WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Brevard Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds LINKS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Wild Florida Rescue Corp ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BREVARD SHARING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BREVARD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CLUB ESTEEM INC ↗
- Who funds BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds WAYS FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY LODGE INC ↗
- Who funds GRANDPARENTS RAISING GRANDCHILDREN OF BREVARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Love INC of Brevard ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds NO LIMITS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds COCOA BEACH ART SHOW INC ↗
- Who funds DAILY BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds CANDLELIGHTERS OF BREVARD INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds MARINE RESOURCES COUNCIL OF EAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MELBOURNE POLICE ATHLETIC L ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHILDREN OF BREVARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Lady Comets Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF HOPE ↗
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: Community Foundation for Brevard Inc · Margaret R Binz Foundation Inc · United Way of Brevard County Inc · Albert E and Birdie W Einstein Fund · Jim and Jonnie Swann Corp · Embraer Foundation Inc · Brevard Homeless Coalition Inc · The Andre Family Foundation Inc · The Freedom Forum Inc · L3harris Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Pridmore Family Foundation Inc
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 Margaret Heins 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- South Brevard Women's Center Inc — 45% of income from government
- Crosswinds Youth Services Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Florida Institute of Technology Inc — 5% of income from government
- Ways for Life Inc — 5% of income from government
- Community of Hope — 1% of income from government
- East Coast Zoological Society of Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Promise Inc — 0% of income from government
- Candlelighters of Brevard Inc — 0% of income from government
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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