· Private foundation
The Margaret Heins Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROMISE INC | $5,000 |
| ST STEPHENS WAY | $5,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF BREVARD INC | $4,500 |
| BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC | $4,000 |
| CROSSWINDS YOUTH SVC INC | $3,000 |
| WILD FLORIDA RESCUE CORP | $3,000 |
| SOUTH BREVARD WOMENS CTR INC | $3,000 |
| GRAND PARENTS RAISING GRANDCHILDREN | $3,000 |
| CLUB ESTEEM | $3,000 |
| NEIGHBOR UP BREVARD | $3,000 |
| LADY COMETS INC | $2,500 |
| MELBOURNE MUNICIPAL BAND ASSOCIATIO | $2,409 |
| RESTOR COUNSEL SPACE COAST | $2,000 |
| LINKS OF HOPE INC | $2,000 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL ACADEMY | $2,000 |
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 (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. 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.
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
How this is measured
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 +77%
- WFWILDLIFE FLORIDA RESCURE CORPone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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.
How this is measured
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 LINKS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Brevard Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BREVARD SHARING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Wild Florida Rescue Corp ↗
- 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 NO LIMITS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds COCOA BEACH ART SHOW INC ↗
- Who funds CANDLELIGHTERS OF BREVARD INC ↗
- Who funds DAILY BREAD 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Margaret Heins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Margaret Heins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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