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Walter E Heller Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17M
Granted FY2021
1
Itemized grants FY2021
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95% of Walter E Heller Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to The Chicago Community Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’19
0
’20
0
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Itemized, FY2021
$17M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$16,587,024
Largest grant, FY2021
$16,587,024
States reached, FY2021
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
20% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

Philanthropy$17MOther$0

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2021.

THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST$16,587,024

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About Walter E Heller Foundation

How much does Walter E Heller Foundation give?
Walter E Heller Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $16,587,024, out of $17,467,024 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Walter E Heller Foundation fund?
By grant dollars, its largest causes are Philanthropy (86%).
Does Walter E Heller Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Walter E Heller Foundation based?
Walter E Heller Foundation is based in TX.

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 1 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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