· Private foundation
William & Diane Hein 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.
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 |
| KEVIN LEMAN SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE | $20,000 |
| CHRISTIAN CENTRAL ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| HOUGHTON COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| AFRICA INLAND MISSION | $12,000 |
| LIFE CHURCH OF BUFFALO | $10,000 |
| COMPASSCARE | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN RELIEF FUND | $10,000 |
| KINGDOM BOUND MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| PATH - PEOPLE AGAINST TRAFFICKING HUMANS | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN CENTRAL ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY OF GRACE | $10,000 |
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, $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 your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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
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
- 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 +6%
Funded once
- UFUB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $30k
- CMCHRISTIAN MEDICAL AND DENTAL ASSOCIATIONSone grant, 2018 · $15k
- BPBUILD PROMISES ST LUKE'Sone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Niagara Gospel Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is World of Girls & Boys Leadership. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 100 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 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 ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SET FREE INC ↗
- Who funds CROSS TRAINING FOOTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds INFAITH ↗
- Who funds LET THEM LOL INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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 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
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 William & Diane Hein 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to William & Diane Hein Foundation?
Find your warmest path to William & Diane Hein Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.