· Private foundation
William & Diane Hein 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k42 grants · $193k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $253k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE | $100,000 |
| EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE | $64,724 |
| EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE | $35,696 |
| SAVINGS GRACE MINISTRIES INC | $25,000 |
| HOUGHTON COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| KEVIN LEMAN SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE | $20,000 |
| CHRISTIAN CENTRAL ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| AFRICA INLAND MISSION | $12,000 |
| NIAGARA GOSPEL MISSION | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY OF GRACE | $10,000 |
| WHEATON COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| LIFE WITHOUT LIMBS | $10,000 |
| COMPASSCARE | $10,000 |
| KINGDOM BOUND MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| PATH - PEOPLE AGAINST TRAFFICKING HUMANS | $10,000 |
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, $224k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
77 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EDEIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +10%
- HUHOUGHTON UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $166k · revenue +12%
SAVING GRACE MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- UFUB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $30k
- CMCHRISTIAN MEDICAL AND DENTAL ASSOCIATIONSone grant, 2018 · $15k
- BPBUILD PROMISES ST LUKE'Sone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…
World reach is a global, evangelical missions organization serving fields in east africa, central and south america, europe and the u.s. our purpose is to fulfill the the great commission of jesus christ by reaching the world with the…
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
The mission of world servants is to display gods love to the world through church partnerships and gospel-centered service. the vision of world servants is connect churches in the usa to churches around the world with a shared goal of…
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
None
To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…
Chb's (praisefm) vision is to see every tribe and nation experience jesus together. our mission is simple: together we help people discover and worship jesus. more than a radio station, praisefm is a place where passionate lovers of jesus…
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 100 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 EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CENTRAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HOUGHTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM BOUND MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Life Without Limbs ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN MEDICAL & DENTAL ASSOCIAT ↗
- Who funds SONRAYS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE COMMUNITY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds Resource Council of WNY Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COUNSELING MINISTRIES WESTERNNEWYORK INC ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CROSS TRAINING FOOTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds SET FREE INC ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LET THEM LOL INC ↗
- Who funds INFAITH ↗
- Who funds ILIO DIPAOLO SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds OPOVERWATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds International Friendships Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds HUNTER'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 Greater Buffalo Inc · Morningstar Foundation · Lakeridge Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · Eight Days of Hope Inc · Buffalo Sabres Foundation · Thomas a Wendt Family Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Feedmore Western New York Inc · The Western New York Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William & Diane Hein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William & Diane Hein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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