Wisconsin · Private foundation
William & Sandy Heitz Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $194k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations William & Sandy Heitz Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $194k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $204k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $193k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $152k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $129k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $71k | 53% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $134k | 61% |
| FY2017 | 35 | $181k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | $420,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $139,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $135,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Charles E Kubly Foundation Inc | $65,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $45,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The League Club Inc | $33,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin Inc | $14,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Hunger Task Force Inc | $14,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Tennessee Performing Arts Center (Tpac) Management Corporation | $13,500 | 6 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($250k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget William & Sandy Heitz Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust · Gardner Foundation · Wispact Inc · Anon Charitable Trust
How this is measured
Compare William & Sandy Heitz Family Foundation with peer funders
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About William & Sandy Heitz Family Foundation
- How much does William & Sandy Heitz Family Foundation give?
- William & Sandy Heitz Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $194,178 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does William & Sandy Heitz Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Human Services (25%), Health (13%).
- Who are William & Sandy Heitz Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc ($420k), Wounded Warrior Project Inc ($140k), Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($135k).
- Does William & Sandy Heitz Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William & Sandy Heitz Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William & Sandy Heitz Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc.
- Where is William & Sandy Heitz Family Foundation based?
- William & Sandy Heitz Family Foundation is based in WI.
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